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Another Democrat (Allen Boyd) considers Senate run (Florida)
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 6/13/03 | Mark Silva

Posted on 06/13/2003 10:12:36 PM PDT by LdSentinal

TALLAHASSEE -- U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd, a North Florida Democrat, is organizing a campaign for the U.S. Senate on the premise that he is well-positioned to win a crowded party primary and then challenge any Republican statewide.

Boyd has commissioned a poll that portrays a wide-open contest among Democrats who hope to replace U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., next year, and he has started lining up supporters before a campaign announcement.

"Sometime after July 4, he will probably make an announcement," said Barney Bishop, a Tallahassee lobbyist, political consultant and Boyd friend.

Boyd, a congressman from tiny Monticello since 1996, might be an unlikely candidate in a Democratic primary traditionally dominated by South Floridians.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2004; allenboyd; billmccollum; bobgraham; duetsch; florida; markfoley; penelas; primary; senate

1 posted on 06/13/2003 10:12:37 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: William Creel
He could even win a one-on-one primary.

Yes, Penelas would go nowhere. He's too moderate to get the union support and there aren't enough Cuban Democrats -- and for the matter, non-Cuban Latino Democrats -- to put him over the top. Hastings will get the black vote, but little of the Jewish and white liberal vote that Deutsch will probbaly gobble up. Broward and Palm Beach County turnout would overwhelm the smaller Democratic bastion in North Florida, which Boyd would have.

3 posted on 06/13/2003 11:17:14 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal
You'd have to see this clown (Boyd) in a TV interview to realize how hopeless his run for the Senate would be.

He has a terrible on-camera presence....always talks out of the side of his mouth. And the things he says quickly indicate the depth of his ignorance.

He will lose his current seat in the next election (I live in his district) to a much more popular (female) state legislator who is a Republican.

4 posted on 06/14/2003 5:40:57 AM PDT by capt. norm
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To: capt. norm
I'm in his district, too. Who's the Republican? Bev Kilmer?
5 posted on 06/14/2003 5:47:08 AM PDT by EllaMinnow
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To: redlipstick
Yea, Bev will beat him next time around and she has charisma...something he clearly lacks.

When he was running for that seat the first time, he and his "handlers" came to the TV station where I was working. One of them talked to the newsman who was about to conduct the interview and told him not to "ask any questions about the House of Representatives because Mr. Boyd isn't up on all that stuff yet".

6 posted on 06/14/2003 5:56:35 AM PDT by capt. norm
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To: capt. norm
Hasn't his (our) district been redrawn to be a bit more Republican?

Heck, I need to check - I might not be in it anymore.
7 posted on 06/14/2003 6:12:34 AM PDT by EllaMinnow
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To: redlipstick
Yes it was made more Republican.

Old lines: Bush 50.4%

New lines: Bush 51.8%

An incumbent rat state senator was defeated in this area last year.
8 posted on 06/14/2003 3:20:50 PM PDT by Impy (Sharpton/Byrd 2004!! The Slave/Massa Ticket!!)
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To: Impy
Richard Mitchell was the state Senator. Boyd should of ran for State Agriculture Commissioner in 02, he might of have had a shot at it. He will not make US Senate, the nod will go to Deutsch or Hastings since there is no runoff.
9 posted on 06/19/2003 3:10:12 PM PDT by flrepublican1
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