Two more candidates enter 2018 Fort Lauderdale races

The 2018 Fort Lauderdale city races continue to heat up, with two more candidates opening campaign accounts in the past week.

Attorney Jim Lewis, who has sought numerous public offices in the past, is making another attempt to be the city’s mayor. He lost the 1994 election to former Mayor Jim Naugle. Lewis has also run unsuccessfully to be a city commissioner, a state representative, public defender, state attorney, a circuit judge and Florida’s attorney general.

Hunter Altschul, a college student whose Facebook campaign page asks voters to “join a movement for responsible growth and progressive values,” has opened a campaign account to replace Commissioner Romney Rogers, who is term-limited. Former Dania Beach Mayor Walter B. Duke is also seeking the post.

Altschul in the past has been involved with Food Not Bombs, a group that is suing the city over its laws regarding the homeless.

In themayor’s race, other candidates include Commissioner Bruce Roberts and former Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom.

And city activist Robert Walsh says he’s going to run for mayor, too, if he can get his civil rights restored in time. Walsh tried to run in a special City Commission election won by Commissioner Dean Trantalis in 2013, but was blocked from doing so because he had not had his voting rights restored after a 2001 conviction for a non-violent felony.