“Why on earth would you want to take that job?! You do so much good in the world already?” That’s a frequent question that has greeted the smiling face of Damon Victor throughout his campaign to replace incumbent Rick Minor as the new Leon County Commissioner for district three.
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Interview by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Damon Victor is an independent candidate running in the 2022 District 3 county commission election for Leon County. The incumbent is Rick Minor. Victor’s other opponent in Joey Lamar. In our recent local election guide we endorsed Victor, writing in part, “Not only does he have entrepreneurial experience of real value to …
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Damon Victor runs Victor Technologies, a lab in Tallahassee that custom-builds orthotics in collaboration with local practitioners. In March of 2014, he was days away from getting on a plane for Crimea to help an orphanage open a prosthetics laboratory.
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Two first-time candidates — one a state worker, the other a business owner — have filed to run for the Leon County Commission seat in District 3.