During Congresswoman Frederica Wilson’s annual “Pumps, Pearls and Politics” fireside chat at the Lou Rawls Center for Performing Arts at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, the hall buzzed with excitement. Cheers, jeers, and energetic call-and-response exchanges echoed through the hall as the audience, dressed in bright green, pink, and red, some wearing candidate T-shirts, listened.
David Jolly, the Democratic nominee seeking to defeat Naples Congressman Byron Donalds in the gubernatorial race, and Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D-Jacksonville), who is challenging incumbent Ashley Moody, pitched themselves as champions for civil rights, economic opportunity and long-overdue change following nearly thirty years of Republican rule in the Sunshine State.
“I recognize that the disparity between Black and white America today is as greater — greater than on the day Martin Luther King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,” David Jolly told the audience Thursday at the event moderated by former CNN anchor Don Lemon…