On April 2, Florida Professor Tim Canova announced that he is changing his registration from Democratic to independent, and that he will be an independent candidate for U.S. House in Florida’s 23rd district. He will run against incumbent Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
In the August 2016 Democratic primary for the same office, Canova polled 43.2% of the vote against Wasserman-Schultz. In the general election in the same district in 2016, Wasserman-Schultz received 56.7% of the vote, her Republican opponent received 40.5%, and two independents received the remaining 2.8%.
Richard, It appears that the title and body of the article are not in agreement.
thank you very much for pointing out my typo. I just corrected it.
The 435 USA H Reps gerrymander districts derived from the NNN gerrymander districts in the English/Brit/Gr Brit/UK House of Commons since 1200s —
700 plus years of minority rule gerrymander oligarchs. It shows —
in the pending collapse of Western Civilization — due to accumulated INSANE peacetime deficits.
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PR and AppV
What is surprising and somewhat perplexing is that over the past few election years, and although there have been a number of IND candidates running for various offices in Florida at all levels of government, only two have called upon the Independent Party of Florida for support and even they have refused to allocate that portion of their filing fees paid to the state that come back to the party which is used for both administration and expenses of the party to keep the party alive and also to actively support the IND candidates.
This is a direct result of a lack of education to independent and minor party candidates as well as a significant lack of purpose and effort on behalf of those candidates to “realistically” run for office while putting in the necessary effort and time to do so.
I liked Canova, but with the change of party to Independent, I will not vote for him.
The only reason to have no party is to have no substance and no loyalty.
He’s a smart man, so I know he thinks this is a good move.
If he were a reliable Democrat I would, but wild-cards aren’t for me and my family.