edited by: Kay Day,
Florida Editor
Days after he called for her resignation, Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman is dumping Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairman B.J. Chiszar. Thurman's spokesman, Eric Jotkoff, said the timing is incidental and the complaints against Chiszar have been mounting for months. He has been in the post for about one year.
"He [...]
Days after he called for her resignation, Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman is dumping Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairman B.J. Chiszar.
Thurman's spokesman, Eric Jotkoff, said the timing is incidental and the complaints against Chiszar have been mounting for months. He's been in the post for about one year.
"He has engaged" [...]
Over the past week plus, several incidents have illustrated the depravity of the Florida Democratic Party and the need for genuine principled, issues and values progressives, not the Party hacks, to get it together and take control of the party from these clowns who in some combination 1) are vicious [...]
Well it's nothing like the insurrection Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has on his hands, but Florida Democratic Party Chairman Karen Thurman is also facing discontent. The chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, B.J. Chiszar, circulated this inside-baseball screed over the weekend. Download Dearest_Party_Leaders
[...]The press release from the Florida Democratic Party called Thursday "Charlie Crist's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.''
The description also applied to Wednesday. And Tuesday. And Monday. And to the week before that. And to the entire month of October.
Let's be clear: The governor/would-be U.S." [...]
The Florida Democratic Party and the Republican Party of Florida plan to return campaign contributions associated with Scott Rothstein, the Broward lawyer under scrutiny for financial improprieties. For FDP, it's easy: Just return a $200k check. Not so for RPOF. Rothstein, his firm and wife have contributed more than $600,000 over [...]
The Florida Democratic Party and the Republican Party of Florida plan to return campaign contributions associated with Scott Rothstein, the Broward lawyer under scrutiny for financial improprieties. For FDP, it's easy: Just return a $200k check. Not so for RPOF. Rothstein, his firm and wife have contributed more than $600,000 over' [...]
The fallout from the Scott Rothstein case is moving fast and furiously.
Rothstein's ties to Gov. Charlie Crist are well-known. But Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is apparently getting caught up in the unfolding drama because it turns out that the $200,000 that the Florida Democratic Party received from the [...]
Lights flashing, bass pumping, Democratic candidate Scott Maddox pumped up the party from the deejay's perch behind the dance floor.
"I want to see everyone on the dance floor because I got a feeling!'' he urged party activists who came to his reception at the Florida Democratic Party's recent conference in" [...]
When Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink was asked at the Florida Democratic Party conference in Orlando nearly three weeks ago whether she would endorse Kendrick Meek for Senate, she said, "I'm staying neutral...It appears we're going to have a primary and all the candidates are great."
But Sink appears to have [...]
A note on Politico, and a news release from the Florida Democratic Party, are signs that the biennial speculation on the retirement of U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Rocks, is underway.
Politico reports that Young raised almost no money during the third quarter of 2009 for his re-election campaign,… [...]
