PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Christopher Constance is running for Charlotte County Commission District 2.<\/p>\n
Constance, an incumbent who is seeking a fifth term, will run against John Fleming. Both candidates are registered as Republicans.<\/p>\n
Constance has raised $88,025 for his campaign and Fleming has raised $24,987.<\/p>\n
The winner between the two candidates will be decided in the primary election on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n
Constance has lived in the area since 1994. He is a plastic surgeon with a private practice. He also serves on a number of committees including hospital boards.<\/p>\n
Constance said he is running again because he does not think there is someone else who can handle the current issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important job. I\u2019m really blessed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Constance spoke to having experience and how it can be important. Elected officials who are \u201cwet behind the ears\u201d oftentimes do not get the time to figure things out, according to Constance.<\/p>\n
When asked about term limits, Constance said \u201cwe have term limits. It\u2019s called a voting booth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Constance praised the current commission as a \u201ccollegial group.\u201d He referenced the expertise of some of his fellow commissioners who have been getting things done.<\/p>\n
Constance is proud of efforts for clean water, sales tax accomplishments, storm resilience projects and more.<\/p>\n
Going into the future, Constance wants to utilize AI to save money. He did, however, express concerns about data centers.<\/p>\n
Constance also wants to set up the younger generation to become HVAC workers, plumbers, electricians, nurses and fire medics as those are professions where people are most needed. He brought up an idea to have Advent Health work with local schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want 100 RNs a year. I want a school where we\u2019re just pumping them out,\u201d Constance said.<\/p>\n
Constance also talked about the property tax reform on the ballot and warned about potential cuts to service.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if the will of the voters is for this to pass we will deal with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Finally, Constance said he likes to keep conversations in \u201cthe sunshine,\u201d unlike at the state level, so people are aware. Then, people can get involved in the conversations and have a say.<\/p>\n
\u201cI care about this community so much,\u201d Constance said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 Christopher Constance is running for Charlotte County Commission District 2. Constance, an incumbent who is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4320,209,211,210,853,46991,134752],"class_list":["post-325837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-candidate","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-charlotte-county-commission","tag-christopher-constance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}