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Posted on 01/10/2023 12:42:21 AM PST by Libloather
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Manny Diaz, the former Miami mayor who had pledged to rebuild the Florida Democratic Party after years of losses, abruptly announced his immediate resignation as party chair on Monday amid growing calls for his ouster.
Diaz’s departure came after Florida Democrats suffering some of their worst losses ever, including the re-election of Gov. Ron DeSantis by 19 points over Charlie Crist, the election of a supermajority in the Florida Legislature and the flipping of several counties including once-reliable blue Miami-Dade County.
Diaz, in a statement to Democrats Monday, said he was unable to carry out his plans to build a year-round operation that would carry the party forward, blaming unnamed Democrats and others. He also decried national groups for not providing more funding the state party.
“During my tenure, I hoped to address these issues, and build a united party without silos, focused exclusively on our purpose- to elect Democrats,” Diaz wrote in his statement, first reported by the Florida Phoenix. “Instead, I found obstacles to securing the resources and a long-standing, systemic and deeply entrenched culture resistant to change; one where individual agendas are more important than team; where self-interest dominates and bureaucracies focus on self-preservation.”
He also took aim at legislative campaign organizations, including the one run by Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book for focusing “exclusively” on their candidates and not helping the party.
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Jeremy Matlow, a progressive city commissioner in Tallahassee who just won re-election, announced late Monday that he was going to run to fill Diaz’s slot.
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If Rhonna Romney is still leading the GOP party in 3 weeks, its all a complete scam and corrupt.I will never vote Republican again if this happens..not that voting even matters anymore.
“Manny Diaz”
Nothing new. The Democrats never liked the idea of having Hispanics in positions of power.
So the solution is to select a far left replacement.
As a conservative, I applaud the decision of the Florida Demorat party.
“Instead, I found obstacles to securing the resources and a long-standing, systemic and deeply entrenched culture resistant to change; one where individual agendas are more important than team; where self-interest dominates and bureaucracies focus on self-preservation.”
This is the very nature of the Democrat party. If it was otherwise, they wouldn’t be Democrats.
Why has She not been pushing back on the claims if “insurrection” and branding with “extremists”, threats to democracy, etc.?
DeSantis put the fear of God into democrats who usually do the voter fraud... A few weeks before the election he had some people arrested for voter fraud. It worked.
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