After former Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink (D) narrowly lost a special election to now-Rep. David Jolly (R, FL-13), Democrats vowed to compete against Jolly in the fall. After all, President Obama narrowly won this district in 2012. After Sink passed on running again, an African-American minister was angling to run, but local and national Democrats unceremoniously forced him out of the race. They eventually settled on backing veteran Ed Jany, a former Republican who would appear on the ballot with no party affiliation. (Jany had switched parties too recently to be eligible to be a “Democrat.”)
Jany quickly showed he wasn’t ready for primetime — the Tampa Bay Times found holes in his educational background — and he abandoned the race on Tuesday.
So Democrats don’t have a candidate here, moving a potentially competitive district from Leans Republican to Safe Republican.
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Typical of the effing FDP... they are also handing Scott another four years by licking Charlie Crist's s#!t covered boots!
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