Posted on 08/28/2018 7:10:57 PM PDT by monkeyshine
...On the Democratic side, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum's victory was the most unexpected of the night, as he defeated centrist former Rep. Gwen Graham. His victory represents an upset for the progressive wing of the party in the final stretch of 2018 primaries...
...Gillum hadn't led in a single poll, but was able to harness the progressive energy to beat Graham, a famed political scion in the state whose father had served as governor and senator. Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned for Gillum and drew more than 1,000 people to a rally in Tampa earlier this month. Gillum campaigned on repealing the state's controversial Stand Your Ground law, Medicare for all and raising the minimum wage.
Gillum would be the first African-American governor of Florida if elected, and he becomes the second black Democratic gubernatorial nominee this year in the South, joining Georgia's Stacey Abrams.
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I agree. I was born in Florida and lived there for about 41 years. This leftist will fail big time.
#walkaway is happening
no blue wave
So what’s a “progressive” democrat?
His close friend, Adam Corey, is a new target of the FBI--and Gillum likely to be next on their list.
Not exactly news that will send libs running to the polling places.
In yet another example of the bastardization of the English language that would make Alinsky proud, ‘Progressives’ are nothing less ominous than totalitarians dressed in Orwellian sheeps’ clothing.
Though ‘Regressives’ would be closer to linguistic accuracy, even that fails to adequately convey the danger inherent in the evil of their underlying sociopathy.
Free stuff for all Gillum , oh and Drugs ,LOL
Eating their own. Good..Really good.
There is nothing ‘progressive’ about Marxism. It’s a delusional, flawed, and failed system that is more retro than a Victrola.
When he’s failing there’s always the race card.
I hate how the left gets to twist the meaning of words. There is nothing progressive about socialism and communism. They are reactionary.
FL should go deep Red in the midterms!
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I agree.
Progressive my ass. Funny NPR won’t call him what he is.
LOL. The media always called Loony Bob Graham a "moderate" while in the Senate (for far too long). Which was just as ludicrous.
As far as the media is concerned, if a Democrat isn't wearing a Vladimir Lennin lapel pen, he's a moderate/centrist. In the Democrat party, the farthest right you can get is closet socialist. The farthest left is gulags and killing fields. A moderate Democrat is in between those two.
Will his/her progressivism (communism) help him/her in the general election?
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It will kill him. Too many people in Florida have seen what socialism does and don’t want any part of it. There are too many Cubans and people from Venezuela and NY and Connecticut, etc who moved to Florida for that reason.
You can bank on it
She may be at the center of the Democommunistic Party.
#walkaway is happening
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Yes!!
“Make America Venezuela!”
I stuck to the FR rules and posted the headline as it appeared in the article when I grabbed the link. I didn’t insert the word “Progressive”. (Websites sometimes change the headlines in their links, not sure if they did or will do it here).
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