Kelly Skidmore

FL House — District 92

West Boca Raton

Incumbent

★★★☆☆

112 / 165 points

Integrity & Legal Record

Professional & Business Transparency

Policy & Platform Consistency

Community Engagement & Character

Campaign Transparency

Issue-Based Positions

Incumbent (born 12/20/1962, Cleveland, OH; moved to Florida in 1972; AA Communications, Palm Beach State College; legislative aide to State Sen. Ron Klein, 1996–2005; VP of Advocacy/Public Policy, Arthritis Foundation FL Chapter; CEO, Palm Beach County Medical Society; served in the FL House representing District 90, 2006–2008; currently represents District 92; House Minority (Democratic) Policy Chair, 2024–2026; resident of Boca Raton; ran unopposed in 2024; declared for re-election in the 2026 D primary)

Last updated: 2026-08-21

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Integrity & Legal Record 21 / 25

Criminal History

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" HD-92 arrested OR convicted OR indicted — 2026-08-14]`. No adverse findings.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-14 — no adverse matches

Civil Court History

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" lawsuit OR litigation — 2026-08-14]`. No adverse civil litigation found.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-14 — no adverse matches

Ethics Violations

A residency-eligibility controversy dating to circa 2020 (during an earlier candidacy for the then-HD-81 seat) alleged Skidmore did not actually reside within the specific legislative district she sought to represent, despite the Florida Constitution's residency requirement for state legislators. `[No formal legal challenge, lawsuit, or Division of Elections eligibility ruling was found — searched nationwide news — 2026-08-14]`; this appears to have remained a political/media criticism rather than an adjudicated matter, and it is unclear from available sources whether it has any bearing on her current HD-92 residency.

Sources:

(Referenced in aggregated biographical summary; original 2020-era source article not independently re-verified — searched nationwide news — 2026-08-14)

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — A residency-eligibility controversy was reported circa 2020 regarding a different, earlier district; recommend operator review to determine (a) the original source's reliability and (b) whether it has any current relevance to her HD-92 residency.

Campaign Finance Violations

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" campaign finance violation — 2026-08-14]`. No violation records found.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-14 — no adverse matches

Residency Confirmed

Documented resident of Boca Raton, FL (Palm Beach County). See Ethics Violations above regarding a historical residency-eligibility controversy tied to a different, earlier district.

Sources:

Wikipedia; LobbyTools — 2026-08-14

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — See Ethics Violations section; recommend operator confirm her current HD-92 residency directly via her official FL Division of Elections filing given the historical controversy.

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: A circa-2020 residency-eligibility controversy (tied to a then-different district, HD-81) was reported but not formally adjudicated; recommend operator review of the original source and direct confirmation of her current HD-92 residency.
Survey cross-reference could not be independently completed this pass despite her "Responded" survey status — recommend cross-referencing her actual survey answers in a follow-up pass.

Professional & Business Transparency 20 / 25

Business Ownership

Skidmore is not a business owner; she is currently employed as CEO of the Palm Beach County Medical Society (a physician professional/advocacy association), a role she assumed after 22-year predecessor Tenna Wiles retired, per contemporaneous trade-press reporting. She simultaneously serves as a sitting Florida House member. Her prior career (VP of Advocacy/Public Policy, Arthritis Foundation FL Chapter; VP of Community Relations, UnitedHealthcare Florida; Marine Industries Association) is documented as employment, not ownership. `[Sunbiz primary-source confirmation NOT COMPLETED — search.sunbiz.org unresponsive this session]`.

Sources:

South Florida Hospital News — "Representative Kelly Skidmore Named Palm Beach County Medical Society CEO" — 2026-08-21
South Florida Hospital News — "Skidmore Brings Healthcare, Legislative Experience to Palm Beach County Medical Society CEO Role" — 2026-08-21
LinkedIn — "Kelly Skidmore - Palm Beach County Medical Society" — 2026-08-21

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Sunbiz confirmation not completed; recommend a manual recheck of Palm Beach County Medical Society Services Inc.'s corporate/nonprofit registration.

Financial Conflicts of Interest

Skidmore holds a dual role as a sitting Florida House member and the paid CEO of the Palm Beach County Medical Society, a physician trade/advocacy organization with a direct and ongoing interest in state healthcare legislation and regulation — the exact policy area a state legislator votes on. `[No specific vote, bill, or financial-benefit instance tying her legislative actions to PBCMS's advocacy positions was identified — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" Medical Society conflict of interest lobbying — 2026-08-21]`, and no news reporting characterized this dual role as a scandal or improper. However, the structural overlap between her employer's advocacy interests and her own legislative healthcare votes is a documented, ongoing arrangement worth operator awareness, distinct from the isolated instances found for other candidates this session (e.g., Book_Lauren, Moskowitz_Jared).

Sources:

South Florida Hospital News (as above) — 2026-08-21
Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no reporting characterizing this as a scandal

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Structural, ongoing dual role (sitting legislator + CEO of a healthcare-advocacy employer) with an inherent policy-area overlap; not documented as improper, but a standing conflict worth operator review.

Bankruptcy History

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal or business bankruptcy filings located.

Sources:

CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — search "Kelly Skidmore" — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Tax Liens

`[NOT FOUND]`. No federal or state tax lien records located. Per this project's standing methodology, tax liens are inconsistently indexed online, so this absence of results is not presented as a confirmed clean record.

Sources:

CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — same search as above — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Board Memberships

Skidmore is affiliated with the American Association of Medical Society Executives and the Conference of Florida Medical Society Executives, both professional associations for medical-society executives consistent with her PBCMS CEO role. No outside corporate or unrelated nonprofit board membership was identified.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search: "Kelly Skidmore" Medical Society Executives — 2026-08-21

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: Skidmore is a sitting Florida House member who is simultaneously employed as CEO of the Palm Beach County Medical Society, a physician advocacy organization with a direct interest in state healthcare policy. This is a documented, ongoing structural conflict of interest (not a proven scandal); recommend operator review, potentially cross-referencing her voting record on healthcare-related bills.
⚠️ TOOLING BLOCK: Sunbiz unresponsive this session (2 attempts); recommend a manual recheck of Palm Beach County Medical Society Services Inc.'s registration.
Survey cross-reference could not be independently completed this pass despite her "Responded" survey status.

Policy & Platform Consistency 17 / 20

Voting Record

Skidmore is an incumbent with a lengthy legislative history (FL House District 90, 2006–2008; current District 92 seat) and serves as House Minority (Democratic) Policy Chair. Her committee assignments are Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee, Justice Budget Subcommittee, Democratic Ranking Member of Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee, and Criminal Justice Subcommittee — notably, not a Health Professions/health-policy committee, despite her PBCMS CEO role. However, she co-filed HB 345/SB 316 (with Sen. Bobby Powell) to curb the "corporate practice of medicine" — legislation restricting non-physician-owned entities from employing physicians, a position directly aligned with the Florida Medical Association's and, by extension, physician-advocacy organizations' interests (the same interest category represented by her employer, the Palm Beach County Medical Society). The bill did not advance ("no interest in changing Florida's long-settled position," per reporting). This is a concrete instance directly relevant to the structural conflict already flagged in Category 2, though not itself reported as improper — she was legislating in a policy area adjacent to, not the direct commercial interest of, her employer.

Sources:

Capitol Soup — "Senator Bobby Powell and Representative Kelly Skidmore Re-File Legislation to Curb the Corporate Practice of Medicine" — 2026-08-21
Florida House of Representatives — committee assignments (flhouse.gov) — 2026-08-21

⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE TO CATEGORY 2 PRIORITY FLAG — the corporate-practice-of-medicine bill is a concrete instance of healthcare-adjacent legislative activity while she held the PBCMS CEO role; not documented as improper, but strengthens the case for the operator to review the structural overlap already flagged in Category 2.

Position Consistency

`[No documented position shifts were identified across her tenure — searched: nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21]`. Her legislative focus (public schools, affordable/accessible healthcare, economic opportunity) has remained consistent, and is directly aligned with her healthcare-sector employment.

Sources:

Ballotpedia — "Kelly Skidmore" — 2026-08-21

Flip-Flops

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" flip-flop reversed position controversy — 2026-08-21]`. No documented policy reversal was identified. One search result referenced a past instance of Skidmore herself criticizing an opponent's record ("Skidmore dives into the mud to attack Weinstein") — this is campaign-attack conduct, not a flip-flop, and was not further investigated as out of category scope.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches

Endorsements

Received: Palm Beach Post Editorial Board; FL Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Nikki Fried; U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel; PBC Clerk & Comptroller Joe Abruzzo; former PBC State Attorney Dave Aronberg. `[Endorsements given — catalogued on Ballotpedia but not independently cross-verified this pass — 2026-08-21]`.

Sources:

Palm Beach Post — Editorial Board endorsement, "Kelly Skidmore for Florida House District 92" — 2026-08-21
Ballotpedia — "Endorsements by Kelly Skidmore" — 2026-08-21

⚠️ PRIORITY CROSS-REFERENCE: The corporate-practice-of-medicine bill (HB 345/SB 316), aligned with physician-advocacy interests, is a concrete legislative instance directly relevant to the structural dual-role conflict (sitting legislator + PBCMS CEO) already flagged as PRIORITY in Category 2. Not documented as improper by any source reviewed, but recommend the operator weigh this alongside the existing Category 2 flag.
Survey cross-reference could not be independently completed this pass despite her "Responded" survey status.

Community Engagement & Character 14 / 25

Community Involvement

Skidmore has a decades-long documented record of civic/advocacy leadership predating and continuing through her current term: legislative aide to State Sen. Ron Klein (1996–2005), VP of Advocacy/Public Policy for the Arthritis Foundation FL Chapter, and her PBC Medical Society CEO role (already extensively documented in Category 1/2). She has also served in local roles per Boca Raton's own community-resources listings.

Sources:

Wikipedia — "Kelly Skidmore" — 2026-08-24
MyBoca.us — Community Resources listing (cross-referenced) — 2026-08-24

⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE — See existing Category 2/3 PRIORITY finding regarding her dual-role structural conflict, not re-litigated here.

Veteran / First Responder Service

`[NOT FOUND — no military or first-responder service background documented — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" military veteran — 2026-08-24]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Faith-Based Involvement (scored on character consistency)

Confirmed Catholic religious affiliation. `[Her specific congregation was not independently confirmed — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" church faith — 2026-08-24]`. On character consistency: her stated advocacy priorities (healthcare access, arthritis/chronic-illness advocacy) are broadly consistent with her documented career, though the existing Category 2/3 PRIORITY dual-role finding is directly relevant context the operator may wish to weigh here without this section re-litigating it.

Sources:

Wikipedia — as above — 2026-08-24

⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE — See the existing Category 2/3 PRIORITY finding for context relevant to an overall character-consistency assessment; not re-scored here.

Debates / Town Halls

`[No documented debate/town hall invitations or appearances for the 2026 general election were found this pass — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" HD-92 debate 2026 — 2026-08-24]`. She faces Republican Steve Byers in the November general election.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — No debate coverage found; recommend a follow-up closer to November.

Social Media Presence & Consistency

Active official/campaign presence consistent with her role as sitting House Minority Policy Chair. `[A full manual review of her last 90 days of posts was NOT performed this pass — 2026-08-24]`. No inflammatory personal-tone content was surfaced in general search.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no adverse content found

⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Full manual 90-day audit not performed; recommend direct platform review if full certainty is required.

⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE: Community Involvement and Faith-Based Involvement scoring reflects the existing Category 2/3 PRIORITY dual-role finding (sitting legislator + PBC Medical Society CEO), not re-litigated here.
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG: No debate coverage or full social-media audit completed this pass; recommend follow-up closer to November.
Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass despite her "Responded" survey status.

Campaign Transparency 16 / 25

Top Donors / Donor Composition

`[Current 2026-cycle fundraising totals and donor composition NOT FOUND this session — the most recent detailed data located dates to 2021-2022 — searched: Florida Division of Elections, LobbyTools, Plural — 2026-08-26]`. Historical reporting describes her as having "dominated" in spending/fundraising during a prior contested primary.

Sources:

Florida Politics — "Kelly Skidmore dominates in spending, fundraising as she fends off Primary challenge" — 2026-08-26

None — data gap, not adverse.

PAC / LLC / Funneling Structures

`[NOT FOUND — searched: Florida Division of Elections — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Advertising Spend

`[NOT FOUND — searched: Florida Division of Elections expenditure reports — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Grassroots Engagement

`[No documented door-knocking, phone-banking, or in-person voter-contact ground game located — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Kelly Skidmore" HD-92 campaign volunteer 2026 — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Donations to Political Figures

`[NOT FOUND — searched: Florida Division of Elections, nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Current 2026-cycle campaign-finance figures were not locatable this session; recommend a direct Florida Division of Elections follow-up.
Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass despite a survey response being on file — the specific relevant questions (Q33-35) were not cross-checked this session.

Issue-Based Positions 24 / 40

2A Rights Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: NRA, GOA, campaign website — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Pro-Life / Pro-Family Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: SBA Pro-Life America, campaign website — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Fiscal Conservatism Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: AFP, Club for Growth, CATO, campaign website — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Parental Rights Score

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: Moms for Liberty, campaign website — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Election Integrity Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Housing / Insurance Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — general "affordable and accessible healthcare" focus without a specific housing/insurance-market position — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Education / School Choice Position

Focuses on "fighting for strong public schools" as a general priority; no explicit ESA/voucher stance (for or against) was located.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — general campaign-messaging summary

Environment / Everglades Position

`[NO STATED POSITION FOUND — scored 3 per protocol — sources searched: campaign website, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:

Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

All eight metrics scored neutral (3) per the No Stated Position protocol; general campaign themes (schools, healthcare, economic opportunity) were too vague to support more specific scores.
Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

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