With an aggressive Democratic campaign, voters in Florida’s 15th Congressional District could put investigative journalist Alan Cohn in an excellent position to unseat two-term incumbent Republican Rep. Dennis Ross.

Although the district has a history of supporting Republican candidates, the survey, conducted by the polling firm Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, found the CD 15 seat is vulnerable, something Cohn’s campaign attributes to the incumbent’s “low profile in the district” and Cohn’s reputation as an investigative reporter.

Alan Cohn, D-Tampa, who is running for the U.S. House District 15 seat held by Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, brings a new political challenge for the two-term incumbent in this November’s election.

Cohn spoke forcefully and critically about Ross on Tuesday to the Tiger Bay Club of Polk County. When Ross spoke to the nonpartisan political club most recently on April 11, he did not address the election campaign in detail.

During his opening speech, Cohn a former investigative reporter for Tampa television station WFTS-Channel 28, said: “We have a Congress that is paralyzed, not because a majority of Democrats and Republicans won’t work together. The House is being held hostage by a small, belligerent group that wants to inflict a narrow agenda on the entire nation.”

Alan Cohn, the Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, came out slugging Tuesday at the Polk Tiger Bay luncheon, criticizing the 15th Congressional District congressman for voting against a measure that ended the government shutdown and accusing Ross of being on the radical end of the Republican Party.

A former television investigative reporter and owner of a video production company, Cohn said the reason Congress has done so little in the past year and a half is because “the House is being held hostage by a small group.”