Antonio Pizza

Editor’s note: Pizza did a phone interview with OCN.

Age: 19

Email address: pizzaforscps@gmail.com

Where they live: Oviedo

Where they work: Soccer coach for I-9 Sports, volunteers as an assistant Scouts BSA master 

Prior work experience: He worked on campaigns for Marco Rubio and did photography for school board elections. 

Prior political experience: Interned for Marco Rubio in freshman year of high school, worked on Rachel Plankton’s campaign, was a paid door-knocker for Brady Duke

The platform they’re running on: He said his platform prioritizes getting students back in school in front of a physical teacher and renewing teacher contracts; creating distraction-free learning environments by limiting phone use to only emergencies; phasing out Seminole County Virtual School to reduce property taxes from going toward online curriculum and digital servers and recognize students who take classes in person rather than online.  

Why they are running: In an interview with Oviedo Community News, Pizza said he’s running because he “had a love for the community, but also I looked at the people currently running the schools and on the school board and not many of them have been to a Seminole County Public School themselves in a long time. They haven’t seen what’s happening on the campuses, haven’t been on the ground and gone through. A lot of them went to school over 50 years ago. We are in a new learning environment and a new era of teaching, and I feel like, as someone who has been through the school, lived through the school recently, I feel like I have the best experience to handle this generation of learning.”

Summary of their campaign finance report: The candidate hasn’t raised or spent anything, according to Seminole County Supervisor of Elections reports.   

Endorsements: None 

Link to their website: Not available

Fun fact about the candidate: His favorite food is pizza, and Pizza is his real last name