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Gwen (“and the men”) Graham has an obvious demographic advantage. And it seems like Jeff Greene and Phil Levine might split a certain primary vote. Here’s some Graham advice for maintaining that presumptive, front-runner status: Prioritize what you will do for Florida. Let your surrogates underscore your gender and motherhood, how you are pragmatically Democratic and how you have a win over a Republican on your resume. And then don’t campaign with Bill Clinton.
So, Bernie Sanders has endorsed Andrew Gillum for governor. We get that. What we hope we don’t get is disappointed, Gillum voters becoming no-shows in the general if their Sanders-backed candidate doesn’t make it out of the primary. There’s precedent, as we well know, from 2016.
Interesting that one of the two minority “No” votes on the Clearwater City Council’s (3-2) vote to move ahead with a strong-mayor initiative was cast by the incumbent, less-than-strong mayor, George Cretekos.