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In It to Win It

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3. Absolutely!
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 04:51 PM
Jun 2022

I think specific office that we need to win is the governorship. I could be wrong but I just don't see anything starting to change within the state unless we win the governorship. Politics in Florida is ridiculously complicated. I don't understand why that is the one office we can't seem to win. We've won other statewide elections before so we know it's not impossible for us to win statewide... but the governorship just slips away every time.

I thought 2018 would have been our year for winning the governorship but we know how that turned out. Winning that one office above anything else would have shifted the tide toward Democrats in such a huge way, considering that was the critical election for redistricting. The GOP legislature doesn't have a veto-proof majority. They would have been forced to compromise on the maps. We could have appointed judges that would have an incumbency advantage when they stand for elections. Winning that one office is hugely transformational. Yet, it seems so elusive to us.

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