ORLANDO, Fla. – Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter John Legend is paying attention to Florida politics, specifically several upcoming elections for local state attorney seats.
The current Orlando-area state attorney Aramis Ayala said last year she would not be seeking re-election.
Worrell, former chief judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Belvin Perry; current assistant state attorney in Orange-Osceola Deborah Barra and Ryan Williams, a longtime assistant state attorney in Florida’s 9th and 5th Judicial Circuits, have all announced they are running.
Worrell, a criminal justice attorney, faces the three other candidates in the Aug. 18 Democratic primary.
The goal of the political group is to “elect prosecutors who will fix our broken criminal justice system,” according to its website.