Florida voters elect Republican who marched in Charlottesville
The gist
Republican citrus farmer Marshall Rawson won Florida House District 10 with 68.15 percent of the vote.
His Charlottesville march drew national scrutiny, but no endorsed GOP officials publicly denounced him.
How it unfolded
- Aug 12, 2017Rawson marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville; TPM located footage of League of the South members greeting him by name and video appearing to show him carrying the group's flag.
- 2023Rawson shared a report on Uganda charging men with "aggravated homosexuality" and wrote, "This is how you would run the pervs and miscreants out of Florida."
- Jan 2026Clay News & Views spotlighted the 2023 post.
Key terms
- Unite the Right rally
- A 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting removal of a Confederate statue.
- League of the South
- An American white nationalist, neo-Confederate organization seeking an independent Southern republic.
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- An American nonprofit civil rights legal advocacy group known for classifying hate groups.
Source: Wikipedia