I am not surprised, but I suspect that the Democrats are:
Quarterly fundraising reports filed in Tallahassee on Thursday illuminate the big advantage Republicans are likely to have heading into this year’s governor’s race, in which Gov. Rick Scott will fight for re-election against likely Democratic opponent, former Gov. Charlie Crist.
Combining fundraising by their state parties, their campaign organizations and the independent committees backing each candidate, Scott and the Republican side raised about three times as much as Crist and the Democratic side in the first three months of 2014.
Seventeen million to almost six, and the GOP raised more across the board (Rick Scott also apparently did NOT write a big check for his campaign; or, at least, if he did then I didn’t see it reported). Charlie Crist is apparently taking some comfort in the thought that he managed to remain roughly equal to Scott in March, but the truth of it is that Charlie Crist was supposed to bring to the table his stellar fundraising abilities. Instead, he is… well, it is a measure of the situation that nobody can tell if anti-Crist gadfly Progressive Choice Florida is real, or a Rick-Scott spawned fake. Or that even some progressives who do think that it’s a fake still want Crist to answer the site’s concerns*.
I dunno. Maybe Florida Democrats need to figure out why it is they keep producing home-grown politicians like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Alan Grayson – and then stop doing whatever-it-is?
Moe Lane
*In my professional capacity I of course sneer at those people; but as a private individual I must admit that when it comes to Crist’s brazen turning of his coat the progressives have a point.
I am not shocked. The Democratic State Party are a becoming a non-entity statewide. I am still unsure how Obama won the vote here twice.
Asked and answered:
“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”
—Boris Bazhanov’s Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary Chapter 5.
It’s almost like having his mug on a bunch of ambulance chaser bill boards and TV ads didn’t work out as planned… almost.
I live down in Broward and have been quite annoyed that my own doctor feels the need to mail me “How dare Rick Scott do x, y, and z?!” letters. I can tell he didn’t write them, or if he did he writes like a campaign flack.
Sounds like a case where you shouldn’t “like” your doctor anymore.