© St. Petersburg Times, published September 5, 2002
REPUBLICANS
LOCKE BURT, 54, is an insurance executive and state senator from Ormond Beach. He was first elected to the state Senate in 1991. He received his undergraduate and master's in business administration from Northwestern University and his law degree from Loyola University. He is an Iowa native and moved to Florida in 1959. He is married and has two children. ASSETS: checking, money market accounts, securities and homes. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: insurance company Ormond Re Group, state senator's salary, rental income. WEB SITE: www.burt2002.com.
CHARLIE CRIST, 46, is a lawyer and former state senator from St. Petersburg. He received an undergraduate degree from Florida State University and graduated from the Cumberland School of Law. Crist ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate in 1986 but was elected in 1992 and 1994. After an unsuccessful 1998 run for U.S. Senate, Crist was appointed deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, a job he resigned to run for education commissioner. He attended school in St. Petersburg and graduated from St. Petersburg High School. He is single. ASSETS: investments. LIABILITIES: none. SOURCE OF INCOME: Senate salary, law practice. WEB SITE: www.charliecrist.com.
TOM WARNER, 54, is a former state representative and the state's first solicitor general. As such he argues constitutional issues for the attorney general's office. He graduated from Coral Gables High School and attended the University of Florida on a football scholarship, where he received a business degree in finance and investments and a law degree. He is a visiting professor, Richard W. Ervin Eminent Scholar Chair in Law at Florida State University and a managing partner at Warner, Fox, Seeley, Dungey & Sweet. He is married and has three children. ASSETS: House, cars, boats, stocks, bank accounts. LIABILITIES: car, boat and home loans. SOURCE OF INCOME: solicitor general's salary, law firm. WEB SITE: www.warnerforag.com.
WALTER DARTLAND, 67, is a former special counsel and deputy attorney general. He is a native of Michigan and moved to Florida in 1970. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York with a degree in mechanical engineering and earned his law degree at the University of Michigan. He served as prosecuting attorney for Houghton County in Michigan before entering private practice and moving to Florida. He ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 1986 and for insurance commissioner in 1988. He has served as a board member for the Consumer Federation of America and as a member of the national governing board of Common Cause, the public affairs lobby. He is married and has three children. ASSETS: house, property, cars, stock. LIABILITIES: business liability. SOURCE OF INCOME: pension, rental and investment income, social security. WEB SITE: www.dartlandAG.com.
BUDDY DYER, 43, is a state senator who was born in his current Orlando district and raised in Kissimmee, the son of a long-haul truck driver. Following graduation from Osceola High School, Dyer earned an engineering degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Dyer then worked as an environmental engineer before attending law school at the University of Florida. First elected to the Senate in 1992, Dyer has served as the state Senate Democratic Leader for the past three years. Dyer is a shareholder with the Orlando firm of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman. He is married and has two sons. ASSETS: house, cars, boat, bank account. LIABILITIES: mortgage. SOURCE OF INCOME: law office, state senator's salary. WEB SITE: www.buddydyer.com.
SCOTT MADDOX, 34, is the mayor of Tallahassee, an attorney, and he owns an advertising and consulting firm. After earning an undergraduate degree in political science and public administration from Florida State University, he graduated from Florida State College of Law. While still in law school in 1993, Maddox, then 24, was elected the youngest city commissioner in Tallahassee's history. He is a Florida native, is married and has two children. ASSETS: cars, house, stocks. LIABILITIES: mortgage, other loans. SOURCE OF INCOME: law firm, advertising/consulting firm salary. WEB SITE: www.scottmaddox.com.
GEORGE SHELDON, 55, is a Tallahassee lawyer and former legislative lobbyist who recently resigned as deputy attorney general for central Florida, a post he had held since 1998. Sheldon represented Hillsborough County in the state House of Representatives from 1974 to 1982, when he left to wage an unsuccessful campaign for Congress. He attended public schools in Plant City and graduated from Plant City High School. He received bachelor's and law degrees from Florida State University. He is single and has no children. ASSETS: home and interest in commercial property in Tallahassee, checking account. LIABILITIES: mortgage, car loan. SOURCE OF INCOME: state salary through June 2000, proceeds from sale of consulting business. WEB SITE: www.georgesheldon.com.