FL senator says working secretly for slate to avoid "messy primaries."

[madfloridian]

Secret talks to avoid a messy primaries...this sounds like muting the voice of the people to me. I can not find any other source on this except the link below. I would so very much love to read more about why this would be going on. I would like to know more context on this than the reporter gives. I can not find anything else on it.

SNIP..."Campbell would only say that he's in secret talks with other Democrats to line up a slate that would avoid messy primaries that waste money and divide the party. But Campbell's blunt talk may not be a rhetorical salve for the beaten-down Democrats..."

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050124/COLUMNISTS0302/501240318/1110/EDIT

SNIP..."On the party's abject failure to find a candidate interested in running for state agricultural commissioner: "We're looking for someone who owns a farm. Do you know any farmers who are Democrats?"

On the party's sad image: "I hope to God that people in North Florida, Central Florida, South Florida all realize that just because you have a `Democrat' after your name doesn't mean you're a loser." Campbell's lively loquaciousness didn't stop at the boundaries of politics...."END SNIP

I did find this while I was searching, about Florida's Scarlet Letter law that I believe was rescinded or called illegal.
Apparently he was responsible for it. Under this law, if a woman made an adoptive plan for her child but did not know the who the child’s biological father was, she was required to publish her name and the names of any of her sexual partners in newspapers before placing her child with an adoptive family! She had to include her full name, address, age, height, weight, hair and eye color, race, and her child's name, as well as her sexual partner(s) name(s) and physical description(s), along with the dates and places that the conception may have occurred.....
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5701725.htm

Here is his website. I am not familiar with him, but I was shocked by his statement about the primaries.
http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/View_Page.pl?Tab=legislators&Submenu=1&File=index.html&Directory=Legislators/senate/032/

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Collusion to prevent choice?

Backroom deals to disenfranchise voter?

Another "must move right to win" robot?

Goofy blowhard angling for attention?

Just what is going on here?



EDIT: It seems coolusion is not a word.

[madfloridian]

2. And if a lot of our FL Dems were talking to press, why have we not heard?

"Campbell wasn't the only Democrat who spoke to the journalists last Wednesday. House Democratic Leader Chris Smith, DFort Lauderdale, followed House Speaker Allan Bense, R-Panama City."

Where were they, was it a conference?

And yes, it does sound like backroom deals to me. Wonder if Bense and Smith are in on the secretive talks.

[geniph]

3. Ah jeez, I need a vacation!

I read this as "slate to avoid messy primates" and was wondering if they were going to outlaw the breeding of slobs.

Must be time for me to hibernate again.

[madfloridian]

5. Chuckled at that one.

We could avoid them as well. :evilgrin:

[K-W]

4. The problem isnt the party, its the corruption!

We need to remove the snakes who would keep the party from being democratic.