Susan Smith, president of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, said Friday the DPCF has reviewed the third batch of candidates' voting records and responses to the group's questionnaire and assessed the strength of their campaigns. 

Susan Smith, president of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, on Thursday released aother round of August and November 2018 election endorsements.

In a press statement, the Caucus said, "The DPCF offers endorsements in races from U.S. Congress to city commission to highlight those progressive champions who will represent the interests of everyday Floridians and not just the fortunate few."

Here are the latest candidates the DPCF endorsed:

Statewide

The White House announced Tuesday its approval of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' request to seek approval from Congress for the Everglades Agricultural Area reservoir approved by the Florida Legislature in Senate Bill 10 (2017).

Democrat-turned-Independent Tim Canova called on Gov. Rick Scott Thursday to suspend and replace Brenda Snipes, the Broward County supervisor of elections who illegally destroyed the paper ballots cast in his Aug. 30, 2016 primary against Congressional District 23 incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Canova lost the election, pulling 43 percent of the vote to Wasserman Schultz's 56 percent. 

In a victory for Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet, the News Service of Florida (NSF) reports a federal appeals court Wednesday night blocked a lower-court ruling that set a Thursday deadline for revamping the state’s process of restoring felons’ voting rights. 

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, finding that the current system of restoring rights is unconstitutional, ordered last month that the state quickly change the process. But a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of Walker’s order.

Reports NSF: