Candidate: Carol Ann Felts

Carol Ann Felts is an 8th generation native Floridian of both “Conch” and “Cracker” descent. Originally from the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida, and raised between there and the Keys, Ms. Felts is a proud product of the Florida public school system and a graduate of Miami Senior High, the same school from which her father graduated in 1950. 
Raised in a family of first responders, law enforcement officers, and city employees, Ms. Felts began her career with Allied Industries, Bush Hog Division, Selma, Alabama in  cost accounting and production planning. 
Ms. Felts has resided in Manatee county for over thirty years, first in West Bradenton, commuting to St. Petersburg for her career opportunities in the auditing and acquisitions department of a growing office equipment dealer, while choosing to raise her family in a smaller town.
Ms. Felts relocated herself and her horses that were boarded in Parrish to her own property in Myakka after retirement, where she is an avid Florida history buff, amateur genealogist and full time animal concierge, with a keen interest in agriculture, local politics and the environment. 
Ms. Felts is the proud mother of two 9th generation Floridians, a son that served his country in the Army after 9/11, earned a business degree, and  now runs his wife’s non profit veterinary practice in Hillsborough County, and a son who graduated from UCF on a  Bright Futures Scholarship, and is  now employed with Moffatt Cancer center, along with his wife, as medical research scientists. They have both brought her 10th generation grand daughters into this world. 

“I am a devoted Florida native to my state. My mission is to give the everyday man and woman in Manatee County a voice and an education in our political system so we can all work together for the greater good by being informed, aware and participatory in our community’s political process”.