Is Scientology an Election Issue in Florida?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}The Church of Scientology has, over the past few years, developed a very strong presence in Clearwater, Florida. Early on residents weren’t too happy about this; more recently people seem to have at least resigned themselves to the change or even grown to appreciate it. Still, Scientology is controversial enough that at least some think they can make a political issue out of them. The St. Petersburg Times reports that Republican candidate Frank Farkas is mailing out a flier accusing Democrat Kim Berfield of being a key ally of the Church of Scientology: Scientology has been a hot-button issue in Clearwater since late 1975 when the church arrived covertly and purchased a city landmark, the Fort Harrison Hotel. Two years later, church documents seized by the FBI
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