Going into the race for the U.S Congressional District 3 seat, Corrine Brown and Marc Little find little room for agreement on the issues.
The race features an incumbent vs. a challenger -- Brown the liberal Democrat and Little the conservative Republican. Little refers to himself as "pro-life" and opposes abortion; Brown says she firmly believes that abortion should be a constitutional right.
Since the September primary, the two have found even more areas of disagreement.
Little wanted a debate, but Brown did not, so the two haven't faced off. Little says the two have been invited to many events but Brown has been a no-show.
"It's not only a challenge (for debate), I scratch my head why she won't show up for anything," Little said.
But Brown says she doesn't see the need.
"He needs to run his campaign and get his message out," Brown said. "I have no interest in debating anyone who doesn't live in the district."
Little lives in Jacksonville, just beyond the district border, and has said he would move into the district when elected.
Brown says she has a record to run on, including two years in Congress and 10 years in the Florida House.
"I have a voting record. He has nothing," she said.
About the only point of agreement between the two is that they both want the same job -- to represent the horseshoe-shaped district that snakes between Jacksonville and Orlando and touches on 14 counties, including Alachua, Levy, Putnam, Clay and Columbia.
The district was designed to enhance blacks' ability to elect the candidate of their choice.
The district itself is one of the points of disagreement. Brown is a supporter of the district, while Little has opposed it, referring to it as "elective apartheid."
It's also a district where 76 percent of the voters are registered Democrats. But Little doesn't see that as an issue.
"I think some people are under the false illusion that Democrats and Republicans vote the party line," he said.
Brown said that when she ran in 1992, the most-asked question was "How are you going to serve the district?" She said that since taking office, she has set up four district offices and 18 satellite offices. "They don't ask that question any more," she said.
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