Florida Democratic state lawmaker Susan Valdes switches to Republican Party

[MichMan]

TAMPA, Fla. — In the Republican wave election year of 2024, one of the few Democratic bright spots was Susan Valdés.

The former school board member held her Democratic-leaning Tampa-based state House district. With the victory, Democrats got to keep one of the few established incumbents in the fold of their ever-shrinking Tallahassee minority.

As it turns out, Democrats don’t get to keep Valdés at all. On Monday, she announced in a post on X that she was switching her party affiliation to Republican. In the upcoming legislative session, Valdés will caucus with the GOP.

“I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community,” Valdés posted in a statement to X. “I’m tired of being the party of protesting when I got into politics to be part of the party of progress.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/florida-democratic-state-lawmaker-susan-vald%C3%A9s-switches-to-republican-party/ar-AA1vyNbk?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[JoseBalow]

1. Bait and Switch

She committed a fraud on her constituents. An auspicious start to her tenure as a repug scumbag.

[Biophilic]

2. I'm curious what progress she expects to get from republicans.

How did we get so many people without morals or ethical backbones?

[Dennis Donovan]

3. What an asshole! n/t