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5. They all make poor choices. Florida's good ole boy system is such a gauntlet that it's

Reply to diehardblue (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 25, 2022, 12:48 PM

Jun 2022

near impossible to get around them. You have to play along and promise to play nice, which means you have to be reachable to their backwater phone calls, which might come late at night. A good, progressive candidate will have to self-finance and bring their own support group in order to break this bad equation.

My hope is that Val Demmings is an exception.

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