What is left of the olde guard “pork chop gang” democrat (white elitist) machine in FL supported Gwen Graham, former Sen. Bob Graham’s daughter (Bob Graham, son of the family that owned the Wa Po for decades, btw— the same Wa Po the see eye aaaa gave 600Mill to Jeff Bezos/Amazon to buy at a fire sale price- so the same three letter agency could continue to staff the writers and editors with their mouthpiece “journalists”. See how that has worked all these years?). Bob Graham married into the MacArthur Dairy (major FL dairy/cattle business) to become...a “Floridian”- oh, and he chaired...at one time the Senate Intel Committee (corrupt as hell).
So, yeah— the dems who aren’t total commies in FL— were horrified by Gillum (they were that way when the dude won the mayor of Tallahassee— sort of like a Willie Brown/Kamala Harris type of development, since these idiots think FL is California. They were horrified Gwen Graham didn’t win— because, truth be told she’d have been a much better candidate vs. either former Ag Secretary Putnam, or the former JAG officer to the SEALs and trump man.
But FL ain’t California (global change, fruits and nuts and whineries).
BTW- reminded of this the other day— Florida translates from the Spanish as “Land of Flowers”. California translates to.... “Hot Furnace” Cali— fornia. Global warming must have featured in the desert state when the Spaniards named it.
Interesting reply. Thanks.
A lot of establishment type Dems in Florida and elsewhere who are affluent, successful, or have some semblance of traditional values must be very uneasy with the continuing leftward drift in their party. Socialism is a threat to them too. (Just look at all the people leaving California and moving to other states. Many of them are Dems who unfortunately bring their voting habits with them to their newly adopted states.)
From a national standpoint, I think the sudden emergence of hard core socialist candidates is symptomatic of a complete lack of a positive agenda and a party that is bereft of ideas. They have nothing to offer other than pie in the sky schemes that are economically, and socially, unviable.
The rise of these radicals is a gift to an otherwise equally ineffective GOP (at the present time). In short, the crazy left is a great foil for the GOP and its best hope for retaining the House and increasing its margin in the senate.