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and effort to Florida. That's why there is no national party effort to replace Manny Diaz as Florida's Democratic Party chair.
Since my childhood in South Florida, my college days on the panhandle and now, on the West Coast, I have not seen ANY national Democratic effort for the third largest population state. WHY IS THAT.
Someone ask the national party, okay?
It could be that 16 billionaires of this state run it like their personal fiefdom, and are part of the Koch (money insurgent to seven major FL state and private universities) oligarchic network.
It could be that the statehouse is full of loons.
It could be the treatment of schools after mass shootings, and the arming of teachers, yet waiting to charge them for felonies for allowing censored books in their classrooms.
It's a gun permit state with a gun culture and gun shows.
It could be that union organizers have not come to the least unionized state in the nation.
But Democrats weak and afraid? Pfffft. Hell, no. But Democrats in Florida are surrounded by the worst of the opposition.
Stop blaming the political victims of party neglect. We've held true to voting -- former governor Charlie Crist has run for governor again, visited every county; St Petersburg's David Jolly continues to promote the Democratic face and good sense of Florida on MSNBC. So does Joy Reid, from Broward County.
YET. Is the national party paying attention to how they've neglected candidates running for national office? How little the DNC helped Val Demings?? Not that I can see. From what I saw, she was on. her. own.
No. The national party hasn't even tried to get the state party registrations caught up!
County supervisors of elections have openly stated on their websites that Florida Democrats are down by over 100,000 registrations.
Young groups are finally getting out to register high school grads and college students. That's the best effort I've seen to raise registration numbers. You've got to watch your back when you join Indivisibles, or when any Democrats hold any meetings.
If anyone looked around, they might consider VAL DEMINGS OR DAVID JOLLY -- BOTH Florida's Democratic Representatives in the US House.
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