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Florida Sen. Jason Pizzo on the Senate floor in Tallahassee on March 10, 2022.Alicia Devine / Tallahassee Democrat / USA Today Network file
By Zoë Richards
Florida state Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo announced Thursday that he is leaving the Democratic Party.
“Here’s the issue, the Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” Pizzo said in remarks on the Senate floor.
He said he had sent in a voter registration form to change his party affiliation to “no party affiliation."
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Pizzo said the state's political system resembled "the infighting, power struggles, corruption and decline of civic virtue that pervaded and eventually ushered in the fall of Rome."
"So, too, are we players, or perhaps props, in the mess that is bottom partisanship,” Pizzo said.
Pizzo, who is considered a potential candidate for governor next year, said he felt liberated by his decision.
“I think stripping myself of the title of the party designation allows me to run free and clear, clean and transparent and help many, many more,” he said in his remarks.
Pizzo, who was first elected to the state Senate in 2018, represents a district that includes parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He previously
was an assistant state attorney in the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
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Top Democrat in the Florida state Senate says his party is 'dead' and registers as independent
Jason Pizzo said he had sent in a voter registration form to change his party affiliation to “no party affiliation.”
Florida Sen. Jason Pizzo on the Senate floor in Tallahassee on March 10, 2022.Alicia Devine / Tallahassee Democrat / USA Today Network file
By Zoë Richards
Florida state Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo announced Thursday that he is leaving the Democratic Party.
“Here’s the issue, the Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” Pizzo said in remarks on the Senate floor.
He said he had sent in a voter registration form to change his party affiliation to “no party affiliation."
Follow live politics coverage here
Pizzo said the state's political system resembled "the infighting, power struggles, corruption and decline of civic virtue that pervaded and eventually ushered in the fall of Rome."
"So, too, are we players, or perhaps props, in the mess that is bottom partisanship,” Pizzo said.
Pizzo, who is considered a potential candidate for governor next year, said he felt liberated by his decision.
“I think stripping myself of the title of the party designation allows me to run free and clear, clean and transparent and help many, many more,” he said in his remarks.
Pizzo, who was first elected to the state Senate in 2018, represents a district that includes parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He previously
was an assistant state attorney in the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.
Top Democrat in the Florida state Senate says his party is 'dead' and registers as independent
Jason Pizzo said he had sent in a voter registration form to change his party affiliation to “no party affiliation.”
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