Martin Hyde
No Party Affiliation · FL
Sarasota business owner with nearly 40 years of experience. His campaign highlights local control, taxes and spending, and water quality.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 4 records
Posted a YouTube video in August 2022, during his run for Congress, that threatened violence against FBI agents over their search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. He later took the video down himself.
August 22, 2022
Source: floridapolitics.com
Sold Gulf Business Systems, the Sarasota office equipment dealer he had owned since 1997, to DEX Imaging in August 2022.
August 15, 2022
Source: thecannatareport.com
Threatened to end a Sarasota police officer's career during a February 14, 2022 speeding stop, according to her report and body camera video. She cited him for a registration violation. He later said he called her to apologize.
February 14, 2022
Source: floridapolitics.com
Admitted in a December 2019 TV interview that he told Puerto Rican teen tennis players at a Sarasota club to go "cut the grass." He called the remark "racially insensitive." The club removed him as a member.
December 3, 2019
Source: nbcnews.com
Past race Martin Hyde ran in:
- State Senator · November 3, 2026 · State Senate District 22; Florida