Democratic race raises questions about rural counties
When Florida Democratic leaders meet next weekend to pick a new party chair, a dozen counties will not participate in the vote.
The counties, which are small, rural communities, each lack a formal party organization, known as a local Democratic Executive Committee, disqualifying them from the vote.
The missing counties’ participation only represents 24 votes out of a potential 1,204 votes that could be cast at the party meeting Jan. 14 in Orlando. But to party activists and some of the candidates running for party chair, the missing counties are emblematic of the party’s organizational challenges in the nation’s largest swing state.
“Let’s build a 67-county strategy, including the 12 counties where no DEC currently exists,” former state Sen. Dwight Bullard said in his candidacy statement. “In a swing state like Florida where margins are thin, it’s important to build a strategy to engage every Democrat in our state, not only Democrats who live in Florida’s bluest counties.”
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