Florida women have watched their abortion rights erode at the hands of men in government. Ruth’s List Florida wants to put those women in office.
The organization held one of its first in-person candidate trainings since before 2020 in Tampa last month. Ruth’s List alumnae, political consultants and candidates spent the day flipping through PowerPoint presentations and swapping business cards as they geared up for the 2026 election cycle.
The organization’s CEO, Christina Diamond, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that Ruth’s List-endorsed candidate Naya Young’s recent election to Tampa City Council is a sign of a change in U.S. politics. People like Young and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Diamond said, represent a changing out of the “old guard” and the introduction of a lot of young faces to politics…