Florida Democratic Party Continues to Alienate Progressives

The Florida Democratic Party is going all in on its marginalization of its progressive wing.

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Progressives are roiling in several counties including Broward, Duval, Orange, and Hillsborough.  All are populous, all have significant communities of progressive Democrats 
and left-leaning NPAs.

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In Hillsborough and statewide, there is are racist overtones in the Democratic schism.  Democratic National Committee member Alan Clendenin has attacked the party’s only black gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and the PAC of black businesspeople 
that support him.

Clendenin called The Collective Super PAC as a “Republican front,” a patent falsehood that was interpreted to mean that black candidates and contributors cannot function within the same parameters as white 
Democratic candidates.

By Jim Bleyer