Category Florida Senate Campaigns
Money, Money, Money – The FDP Shopping List
With all the fanfare and Clinton selfies and fortune cookies, this weekend’s Leadership Blue’s biggest achievement was clearly the big fund-raising numbers. The announcement that $1.1 million dollars was raised in one day energized the room and everybody in the festivities was very excited. While the FDP has not released the exact number for their […]
Rethinking Rural Campaign Strategies for Progressives
I spent Wednesday afternoon driving through rural counties on the way to Tallahassee and I noticed the different types of political advertisements on the way which made me once again begin to ponder rural Florida politics. There were several colorful anti-Obama signs, lots of local election signs in various colors and forms, and even a […]
Allison Tant’s ‘Five Pillars of Success’ – How is she doing?
Everybody is talking about it; all over the state, headlines over the weekend reported on the end of filing on Friday and nobody has anything good to say about Florida’s Democrats. Is this the worst of the worst for candidate recruitment? Certainly a contender. While recruitment was going to be rough on a year that […]
Monday Musings: Cabinet Offices, Qualifying Deadline, Democratic Woes, Reggie Fullwood, Palm Beach Traffic, World Cup
After Friday, my mind immediately jumped past 2014 elections and I begin to think about 2016 and 2018 already. The most unsettling piece to come out Friday is that obviously no one getting ready to run for governor in 2018 against Adam Putnam. Democratic constitutional office candidate recruitment is perhaps the worst in recent memory […]
Introducing Ten Dollar Tuesdays – Judithanne McLauchlan
Ten Dollar Tuesday will highlight one progressive candidate per week in a variety of offices that are worth investing in. As much as people complain about money in politics, the reality is that good candidates still need those dollars until changes are made in the way politics are run in America and Democrats have to […]
Sachs vs. Bogdanoff vs. Bensmihen – Is this a better deal for Dems?
Yesterday Kartik and I wrote about the Bogdanoff’s announcement and how it was troubling for the Democrats, who will struggle to maintain two competitive Senate races and how it may effect the District 22 race where McLauchlan is challenging Brandes. Later that same afternoon, Republican Joseph Bensmihen announced that he will also run against Sachs, meaning that […]
Ellyn Bogdanoff’s candidacy and the statewide ripple effect
TFS Editor-In-Chief Kartik Krishnaiyer contributed to this story The long anticipated announcement came yesterday from former Senator Ellyn Bogdanoff (R-Fort Lauderdale), who formally declared that she would challenge Senator Maria Sachs (D-Delray Beach) in a rematch of a race she lost two years ago. Ramifications are far and wide for Democrats especially, whose resources are […]
The Florida Squeeze 