Debit cards disqualify candidates

Jim Saunders News Service of Florida Contributor Want to run for public office in Florida? Suggestion: Don’t bring a debit card. An appeals court ruling on Thursday, Dec. 26 upheld a circuit judge’s ruling that rejected five candidates for municipal offices in the Palm Beach County city of Riviera Beach because they used debit cards — instead of checks — to pay qualifying fees. A three-judge panel of the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a one-paragraph opinion that p