Jason Pizzo, the leader of the Florida Senator minority, detailed further in a recent interview about why he officially left the Democrats this week.
Pizzo said on Friday that his criticism was directed at both Democrats and the party on News Nation’s show The Hill, but “I think I’m primarily thinking about myself by spending years growing millions of dollars and donating the same thing to artificially resuscitate.
Pizzo has become a third state legislator who leaves the Democrats in recent months. Speaking on the Tallahassee state senator’s floor, Pizzo said Thursday, “Today, I have put the voter registration form into the federal government to change my party affiliation to my party affiliation.”
“The Democrats in Florida are dead,” he added. “But there are good people who can revive it, but they don’t want it to be me.”
Like his speech on Thursday, Pizzo burned the Democrats during his appearance on Friday, but the party is far more concerned about “pronouns” than property insurance.
“The opportunity cost lost by feeding socially divisive issues. This is just a huge distraction from the other side of the aisle. They have the resources because they have the capacity, but they are not driven by lobbyists and special benefits.”
“My constituents, they want lower property insurance. They want free and safe,” he added. “They don’t want to exempt any of them — the police and they want to help officers, teachers and firefighters.”
To have Republicans holding the three regiments in Washington and find the next leader of the party, Democrats have been looking for ways to bounce back as they struggled to vote up and down the vote in the November 2024 election.
Some prominent Democrats said they weren’t looking inward to understand what the party led to losses in the last election cycle.
“We’re not doing forensic medicine for just what was wrong, period, full stop,” Newsom said in an interview with Hill released Tuesday.
“I’m not thinking about it, I know it,” he added. “So, unless I’m a small part of this party, I represent a combined population of 21 states, and I can assure you that there is no discussion of the party that I know includes California.”
The California governor is rumoured to be one of the party’s top candidates for the 2028 presidential nomination, and later in the interview said he didn’t know what Democrats are representing now or what direction the party is heading.
“I don’t know what the party is,” Newsom said. “I’m still struggling with that.”
Pizzo said Friday that he has not joined the Republican Party.
Florida Democratic Speaker Nikki hit Pizzo shortly after announcing his resignation Thursday, describing the state legislator as “one of the most effective and unpopular Democratic leaders in recent memory.”
“His legacy as a leader includes constantly lightly paring the party’s base, starting to fight against other members, chasing his personal ambitions at the expense of democratic values,” Fried said in a statement. “Jason’s failure to build support within the party for the governor’s run led to this last embarrassing temper tantrum.”
