Pizzo was a pretty conservative "independent" democrat and has criticised Democrats for promoting "socialism, CRT, trans bathrooms, woke AP African" which fueled discontent with him. Then Gwen Graham and the moderate faction backed David Jolly and he faced pressure to step aside in the Senate.
Pizzo was a pretty conservative "independent" democrat and has criticised Democrats for promoting "socialism, CRT, trans bathrooms, woke AP African" which fueled discontent with him. Then Gwen Graham and the moderate faction backed David Jolly and he faced pressure to step aside in the Senate.
This led to him to rage quitting but the media is obviously going to have a field day with this.
Edit: So he basically quit not because he thinks Democrats are dead in Florida for 2026 but because the primary voters and the establishment both hate him now and he would never be the nominee.
He sounds like Tricia Cotham and her eventually backstabbing NC voters by switching parties and giving NC Rs the supermajority to override Gov Cooper's vetoes. Thank goodness that the supermajority is broken again, but she still needs to lose her seat.
More like the Alabama Black conservative democrat who switched parties multiple times and opposed ACA then ran for Governor as a Dem. I forgot his name.
Artur Davis. He seemed so aggrieved that he wasn't handed the 2010 gubernatorial nomination after trashing everything dems had accomplished under Obama. An apt comparison!
What a silly thing to be mad about given how 2010 turned out he would have been pasted by any R if he won the nomination. Also a fun reminder of Ron Sparks. I wonder what he is up to these days.
Meanwhile, in that same election another Alabama rep who can't seem to make up his mind about which party he's in, Parker Griffith, switched from D to R after one term and lost the primary to Mo Brooks.
Both Griffith and Davis have jumped back and forth between the parties, but neither has held elective office since 2010. Davis even moved to Northern Virginia for a while and considered running for office there, but didn't do so.
Pizzo was a pretty conservative "independent" democrat and has criticised Democrats for promoting "socialism, CRT, trans bathrooms, woke AP African" which fueled discontent with him. Then Gwen Graham and the moderate faction backed David Jolly and he faced pressure to step aside in the Senate.
This led to him to rage quitting but the media is obviously going to have a field day with this.
Edit: So he basically quit not because he thinks Democrats are dead in Florida for 2026 but because the primary voters and the establishment both hate him now and he would never be the nominee.
Sounds like a total loser. Good riddance.
State Sen. Lori Berman chosen as new minority leader
How was he the Minority Leader, though? The fact that he was seems to indicate a horribly dysfunctional Democratic Caucus.
He sounds like Tricia Cotham and her eventually backstabbing NC voters by switching parties and giving NC Rs the supermajority to override Gov Cooper's vetoes. Thank goodness that the supermajority is broken again, but she still needs to lose her seat.
More like the Alabama Black conservative democrat who switched parties multiple times and opposed ACA then ran for Governor as a Dem. I forgot his name.
Artur Davis. He seemed so aggrieved that he wasn't handed the 2010 gubernatorial nomination after trashing everything dems had accomplished under Obama. An apt comparison!
What a silly thing to be mad about given how 2010 turned out he would have been pasted by any R if he won the nomination. Also a fun reminder of Ron Sparks. I wonder what he is up to these days.
Meanwhile, in that same election another Alabama rep who can't seem to make up his mind about which party he's in, Parker Griffith, switched from D to R after one term and lost the primary to Mo Brooks.
Both Griffith and Davis have jumped back and forth between the parties, but neither has held elective office since 2010. Davis even moved to Northern Virginia for a while and considered running for office there, but didn't do so.
Yeah, wasn't Cotham basically a mainstream Democrat? I thought that was (part of) what made her party switch so surprising.
Given that she only held on by a little over 200 votes last year (0.4%), I think she's in her final term in that seat.
Another Jeff Van Drew type then!
The GOP can have him.