Here are six primary election recommendations that bear repeating

With early voting nearly over, Floridians will head to the polls on Tuesday to select the people they think should lead government.

The Orlando Sentinel’s editorial board offered endorsements in nearly 50 of those races, but here are a few we think — for various reasons — need additional emphasis.

Seminole County Commission: Dallari and Constantine

The two incumbents in this Republican primary stood up against an attempted development incursion into the county’s rural zone. They rejected repeated attempts by the developer of a 669-acre project called River Cross to build a massive project inside the zone that Seminole voters decided long ago should be preserved in its rural state.

District 1 Commissioner Bob Dallari and District 3 Commissioner Lee Constantine came under intense political and legal pressure to cave in, but they didn’t. They honored the voters’ wishes.

Now they’re being challenged in the primary by candidates who say they would do the same.

But would they? Matt Morgan, the Longwood mayor who is running in District 1, and Ben Paris, a Longwood commissioner running in District 3, have each accepted a total of $6,000 in campaign contributions from a half-dozen companies headed by the family that owns the River Cross land.

The Orlando Sentinel also reported a tangled web of political committee money, possibly tied to development efforts, either trying to help the challengers or hurt the incumbents.

Morgan is adamant he wouldn’t have supported River Cross and would protect the rural zone. Paris has been more guarded in his assurances.

The rural zone is a defining local issue for Seminole voters in this election. Get it wrong and the county could end up with a commission that’s more friendly to paving it over. Why chance that, especially considering the contributions Morgan and Paris have been getting?

Dallari and Constantine have shown their willingness to take a punch for the voters. They’ve both earned the voters’ trust, and another term on the commission.

Orange County Commission: Nicole Wilson

This is a real David versus Goliath race when it comes to money and name recognition.

Environmental attorney Nicole Wilson is challenging incumbent District 1 Commissioner Betsy VanderLey. Wilson would have had more time to tell her story to voters in the western Orange County district but one of VanderLey’s political allies persuaded his 20-year-old stepdaughter to run as a write-in candidate.

That means the nonpartisan election got moved from November to August, but that’s been plenty of time for VanderLey to raise nearly $160,000 with the help of tourism, development and real estate interests, reflecting VanderLey’s devotion to the economic status quo. Wilson’s latest report showed contributions of less than $20,000.

VanderLey’s the candidate of big business, that much is for sure. But the pandemic’s crushing impact on everyday workers has convinced us the commission needs more people like Wilson, who care about this region’s service-class workers and their well-being.

Orange-Osceola state attorney: Deborah Barra

We thought all along that this Democratic primary featured a strong group of candidates but settled on Deborah Barra because of the experience she’s already gained by serving as chief assistant to incumbent State Attorney Aramis Ayala, who isn’t seeking a second term.

By some accounts, Barra has been all but running the show for a while now. Barra had Ayala’s endorsement until recently when the state attorney decided to back Monique Worrell, who also has the backing of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

That’s nice for her, but we remain convinced that Barra has the right combination of progressive policies toward prosecution, experience as a prosecutor and familiarity with managing a large organization. The other candidates are former

Chief Judge Belvin Perry and prosecutor Ryan Williams.

Barra remains the best candidate for state attorney, no matter what Bernie and Kamala think.

Orange County property appraiser: Amy Mercado

We recently published an editorial endorsing Amy Mercado in the Democratic primary for Orange County property appraiser. In it, we tried to give incumbent Rick Singh some credit. He promptly took two sentences and twisted them into an ad suggesting we had endorsed him.

This perfectly encapsulates why we are

not endorsing Singh. He can’t be trusted, as some of the allegations against him over the past few years have suggested.

Mercado’s been a steady and trustworthy presence in the Florida House of Representative, and the kind of leader Orange County needs as its property appraiser.

Florida Senate District 9: Patricia Sigman

Floridians for Equality & Justice is like the black hole of dark money. The political committee, whose money source is a mystery, has been behind ad after ad attacking Patricia Sigman, one of five Democrats running in the District 9 primary. Some of the ads are supporting one of her opponents, Rick Ashby, who says he knows nothing about the group.

Those practically anonymous ads are reason enough for us to re-up our endorsement for Sigman, a bright employment attorney who knows the flaws in Florida’s unemployment system and is in an ideal position to help get them fixed in the Florida Senate. Someone wants to make sure she doesn’t get that opportunity.

All the more reason for Democrats to vote for Sigman and make sure the dark money spent against her goes to waste.

Editorials are the opinion of the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board and are written by one of its members or a designee. The editorial board consists of Opinion Editor Mike Lafferty, Jennifer A. Marcial Ocasio, Jay Reddick, David Whitley and Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson. Send emails to insight@orlandosentinel.com.