Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo’s announcement on the Senate floor Thursday that he’s changing his registration to no party affiliation is the latest blow to a party that has struggled to define itself after a series of crushing electoral losses in recent years.
Pizzo called modern partisanship “a mess” and said “constituents are craving practical leaders, not political hacks.”
Once the country’s premier swing state, Florida’s presidential elections used to be decided by the narrowest of margins. But the state has increasingly slipped out of Democrats’ grasp, and the GOP has made significant in-roads in formerly Democratic strongholds like Miami-Dade County. Registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by more than 1.2 million voters.
Did he announce why he’s actually leaving? The Democratic party is dead unless a miracle happens, but politicians in red states tend to use this as an excuse to go Republican so I’m not hopeful.
He plans to run for governor of Florida (against Ron DeSantis). The article also quotes Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried, who gave her reading of the reason he left:
“Jason’s failure to build support within our party for a gubernatorial run has led to this final embarrassing temper tantrum. I’d be lying if I said I’m sad to see him go, but I wish him the best of luck in the political wilderness he’s created for himself,” Fried said. “The Florida Democratic Party is more united without him."
I don’t know these people, no idea whether either of them is trustworthy. Funny burn, though.
I don’t know these people, no idea whether either of them is trustworthy.
Me neither, but anyone talking about unity and the Democratic Party in the same sentence is either delusional or full of shit.
He wants to run for governor since DeSantis is term-limited. He thinks he has a better chance of winning if he isn’t tied to a party that more than half of his state already hate reflexively.
I mean, once they deport all those Miami-Dade Cuban voters that are so scared of socialism, it’ll become a swing state again… /s
Great! . . . What party is he going to?
I’m guessing there isn’t one. Which is fine - it’s just that that can’t be a template for the nation if we just have sixteen months to go. Or, if it is, we need to see some work really fast.
