W.C. Gentry Flirts With, But Declines to Enter, First Coast State Senate Race

Submitted by Kevin Derby on June 7, 2012 - 11:11am

While Wyman Duggan dropped out of the race this week to back Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, another Republican entered the race to replace term-limited Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville -- prominent attorneyW.C. Gentry who has served on the Duval County School Board -- but then quickly announced he would not run.

Gentry filed to run for the Senate seat on Thursday, but then announced that he was not going to actually run as it would require him to vacate his School Board seat.

While Weinstein and Gentry come from Duval County, the other candidate in the race -- former Rep. Aaron Bean -- is from the other part of the district, Nassau County.

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