Former OPD Chief Val Demings running for Congress

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings is running for Congress again.

In 2012, Demings lost her bid for Congress to Republican Daniel Webster.

She also briefly ran against Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, but she dropped out of that race.

Raw: Val Demings on run for Congress  

"People who go to work every day, they watch profits go up, but those profits are not being passed down to the line personnel who are really directly responsible for those profits in the first place," Demings said.

Demings was a police officer in Orlando for 27 years, retiring as chief in 2011, a prelude to her first political campaign.

"What has not changed is that I am still committed to the issues of the people that live in the district," said Demings.

Demings will run in Congressional District 10, which stretches from west Orange County into Lake County.

But the district is changing.

Lawmakers are preparing to move the lines in District 10.

What once had been a safe Republican district is seen by many as a tossup, even leaning democratic under the new proposed map, which includes western Orange County and Lake County.

Last week, Webster, Demings' probable opponent, went to Tallhassee to oppose the map, saying he couldn't win in the new district.

"I took my cause here today because no one was saying it, and I felt like it was something that at least needed to be said," said Webster.

A final districting map is still in the works.

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