Florida Megathread

[Flake]

Governor Crist and Hillary Clinton are together gonna transform Florida into a Democratic-leaning or even strongly Democratic-leaning state.

lol

[Flake]

Crist and Scott on the execution postponement

If gubernatorial debates were as widely watched as presidential debates, there's absolutely no way Rick Scott would still be in this race. What a brutal exchange.

Man, the criminal is really awkward during debates. I watched the last one, and I thought maybe it was just because he was unnerved from the fan debacle, but it seems to be par for the course.

Why is Scott constantly smiling while Crist is talking about executions? What a jerk.

Not a jerk, just absolutely clueless - rumor has it that he only learned after taking office that he actually had to physically sign death warrants.

To be fair, I didn't know Governors had to sign death warrants until a short while ago, but then again, I'm in no position to serve as Governor of the third largest state.

[Flake]

I've seen like 3 Scott signs and no Crist signs.

[Flake]

Murphy for Senate in 2016? Maybe.

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[Flake]

Democrats begin overdue process of rebuilding

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[Flake]

Rick Scott for President?

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[Flake]

Florida House of Representatives

The Democrats did pretty poorly here (as usual for Florida Democrats), where they lost most of the competitive elections.

[Flake]

Florida Senate

Only 1/4 of races were contested, and a good quarter of those were write-ins.

[Flake]

Dems held FL-68.

Thanks for pointing that out! Edited the map.

[Flake]

Florida Squeeze on Gwen Graham

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[Flake]

Florida Senate Voter Registration

As you can see, only one district was majority Republican (district 1, yes, the districts on the panhandle go from 2 - 1 - 3), while eight districts were majority Democratic. This shows two things:

1) The gerrymandering of the districts to being slightly more Republican and strong Democratic districts led to their large majority in the Senate
2) Florida Democrats' recruitment is very poor, all of most Florida should be contested and parts of south Florida should be as well, but as we all know, Florida Democrats.

[Flake]

Crossposting: Smith says growing number of FLGOP insiders think Rubio will run for Governor in 2018.

Rubio doesn't exactly strike me as the Governor type.

I'd rather have Putnam.

[Flake]

Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn looking at running for Governor.

He moved from Iowa?

Somewhere Midwestern - he was born in Illinois but graduated from Penn State in 1980 (moved here in '82).

Totally missed the joke

Congratulations on your ability to recognize repetition of the letter 'B'. Your kindergarten teacher must be proud.

A bit snarky

[Flake]

Florida House Voter Registration

[Flake]

Florida Sheriff Elections

• In Franklin County (60% D County under the two indy counties), the Sheriff was elected as a Democrat but is now a registered Republican
• In Calhoun County (45% D), the Republican only received 2.16%, being beat out by the Democrat and 6-8 indies
• Sheriffs are appointed, not elected in Dade County
• The Sheriff of Volusia County is a registered Republican, but Sheriff races up there are nonpartisan

[Flake]

Omg, that's a lot of words

[Flake]

I was bored and I never do long posts. Give me a break.

I never said that I didn't enjoy the post

[Flake]

Murphy raises $750,000 the week after his announcement, $1.25 million for the quarter

[Flake]

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/politics/election-results.html?county=Florida

Special state Senate and House election here, and (as unsurprising as it seems), Republicans won both in landslides. More precincts are reporting, but there's not enough votes to overcome the deficits that the Democrats are facing.

[Flake]

Florida House literally ends session because they and the Senate can't agree on a budget.

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The one good thing about this is that an anti-trans bill didn't get to the floor because they ended the session early.

[Flake]

Florida gets the government they deserve.

All in all, I think we've got a pretty good government .

Obviously, I mean who doesn't like a legislature like ours. More dysfunctional than D.C. = more likable for me.

[Flake]

Ausley, former rep from HD9 (lost against Atwater in 2010) is running for her old seat again

This was looking like a possible Republican gain in the House, but she's very popular in the area, as you can see in the 2010 map where she lost to Atwater in a landslide.

[Flake]

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/593884696980762624

Classy.

[Flake]

Ooooooooooh.... the Republican who finished third place in the Jacksonville mayoral race's (louisiana-styled) primary just endorsed the incumbent Democrat, Alvin Brown

[Flake]

Is Grayson running?

I have no idea to be honest with you