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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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.
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.
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".
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