www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20170429/in-minority-diversity-lacking-among-areas-elected-officials
No minority has ever served Okaloosa, Santa Rosa or Walton counties on its county commissions or as sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, supervisor of elections or clerk of courts.
“It seems an African-American can only make it to the city council level. There is a color barrier to be broken,” said Charles Baugh, who won election to the Crestview City Council but lost a 2014 bid to succeed Don Howard as the Okaloosa County Clerk of Courts.
To be sure, African-Americans and other minorities face some very real obstacles to being elected in this area of Northwest Florida. Blacks make up less than 10 percent of the total population of all three counties, while other ethnic groups compose percentages significantly lower than that.
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