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After watching their once formidable advantage in registered voters evaporate and losing an embarrassing amount of ground in South Florida in the last presidential election, Florida Democrats say they’ve received the message and are going to change. Their solution is to kick off what they’re calling an unprecedented, well-funded effort to register voters. SNIP Democratic decline Republicans in Florida have been pouring money and people into registering voters and then mobilizing those voters to turn out in elections. The trend is unmistakable: Republicans have been growing their numbers faster than Democrats. In October 2021, Republican voter registrations overtook Democrats in...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday the financial struggles of the "pathetic" Florida Democratic Party are unhealthy for the two-party system. The second-term Republican governor was responding to questions about the Democrats' newest difficulties in the aftermath of a disclosure this week that the Internal Revenue Service filed a lien for unpaid payroll and Social Security taxes in 2003. "How could you not know that you haven't paid your FICA and your Social Security taxes?" Bush said. "Hello! That's just the craziest thing I've ever heard." New state Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman hired former statewide prosecutor Melanie...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Broke and without enough money in the bank to pay its bills after the end of the month, the Florida Democratic Party has now been slapped with a lien by the Internal Revenue Service for failing to pay payroll and Social Security taxes in 2003. The state party's budget and finance committee voted Tuesday to ask for a new audit to account for more than $900,000 it believes somehow disappeared from the books during the 2003-2004 calendar years when the party was led by Scott Maddox, who is now seeking its nomination for governor. Maddox and successor...