Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee Chair Ione Townsend announced on Thursday that she will not run for reelection to her post next month, ending her nine-year run as party leader.
Meanwhile, Florida Democratic Party (FDP) Chair Nikki Fried took to the
op-ed pages of the Miami Herald
Thursday to speak out for the first time since the state party suffered its latest electoral setback, writing that the final result “wasn’t enough, but it’s a start.”
Also, Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, who
briefly competed earlier this year
to serve as chair for the Miami-Dade County Democratic Executive Committee before dropping his candidacy, announced that he was quitting both the Miami-Dade County Party as well as Florida Democratic Party and reregistering as an NPA (no party affiliation).
“It is my sincere hope, if you have a modicum of pride or shame after last week’s electoral bloodbath, you will resign from your positions as well,” he wrote in a letter addressed to Fried and Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee Chair Shevrin Jones.