This is HUGE Tampa turned out and elected @JaneCastor by a 46 point margin She was outspent by about

[riversedge]

Whow. I do believe this IS huge. Congrats to Jane Castor





Tampa elects ex-police chief Jane Castor as its first openly gay mayor

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tampa-elects-ex-police-chief-jane-castor-as-its-first-openly-gay-mayor/

April 24, 2019 / 7:25 AM / AP

In a historic election Tampa voters elected by a wide margin a former police chief and openly-gay woman to be their mayor. According to the Tampa Bay Times , 59-year-old Jane Castor trounced in the Tuesday runoff 76-year-old David Straz, a retired banker and philanthropist worth $426 million.

Castor will be the first openly-gay mayor in the history of Tampa and the region.

With 97 precincts reporting, Castor held a lead of about 24,500 votes — 73.31% to 26.69%.

Castor ran up an overwhelming lead in early voting despite Straz' record spending: nearly $5 million during the campaign, much of his own money, according to campaign finance reports......................




This is HUGE Tampa turned out and elected @JaneCastor by a 46 point margin She was outspent by about by a billionaire who voted for Trump A former beat cop, police chief, and now the FIRST gay mayor of a major city in the SE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #ResistersForum

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[katmondoo]

1. Wow! I live in Florida and I am impressed

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

NOW

[Submariner]

3. Florida overwhelmingly votes in a Gay Mayor

A very progressive move, yet they voted in Red Tide Rick Scott WHO IS THE CAUSE of the environmental damage to the states shorelines, and he's a medicare fraud crooked felon to boot, a very anti-progressive move.

It's very hard to understand how Florida's backward thinking.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Florida is a state of great contradictions.

Which explains why nearly all of our statewide races lately have been razor thin.

[ancianita]

12. Tell me about it. I live here 7 months a year. And the contradictions are extreme.

Right now, if you can believe it, the Republican governor is going after the Fanjul family sugar monopolists' network in order to save the Everglades.

It's about tourist money over corporate money, but still. He knows he'll be governor again if he beats the sugar gang.

[titaniumsalute]

23. I'm from Ohio but lived in Palm Beach County for 7 years

I felt like I was in the 6th NY Borough and was surrounded by blue. But if I drove literally an hour and 20 minutes to Okeechobee I was in Texas. Drive another hour and a half and you're in Orlando/Disney. Drive another hour and a half north and you're in South Alabama.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Florida's really no different than any other state in that respect.

Its rural areas tend red, and its urban areas tend blue.

It's no different than California or New York in that respect. I remember driving through portions of upstate New York in 2014 and seeing a multitude of virulent, hateful signs directed towards President Obama.

Last election, Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson won all the major cities of Florida--Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and even Jacksonville (which had previously leaned red for a while). Plus you have the university towns of Gainesville and Tallahassee, which are blue urban oases in otherwise red rural areas.

In the end, both the Governor and Senate races were razor thin, with the good guys barely getting the short end of the stick. Somehow the mobilization in the rural areas just managed to outpace what we brought in the urban areas.

But it's a nationwide dynamic. I grew up in a red area of a blue state (Maryland) so I'm quite familiar with it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Florida did not vote in the mayor.

The voters in a Fla. city, TAMPA voted her in, the voters in the entire state of Fla. voted Scott for US Senate.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Good for FL and Congrats to Jane Castor!! nt

[mcar]

7. Wow!

[dem in texas]

8. Proves a gazillionaire can't can't buy an election - Peoples votes Count!

We have a similar situation going on here is Dallas. The Citizens Council, a groups of rich, white gillioanries, pick a candidate for mayor and usually their candidate is voted in. We have an election for mayor coming up in May. I will not vote for the Citizen council's pick. My vote probably won't count, but I keep trying.

[The Blue Flower]

9. Not hard to spend $5M on a message no one is buying

It isn't the money, it's the message. That's why I hate all the reporting on which candidate has raised the most $. Dollars are not the same as votes.

[Botany]

10. 73 to 27%

butt kicking

[riversedge]

15. in an area that Trump took by a huge % in 2016!!

[Botany]

20. Yup

But I think a lot of "Trump Country" areas were thanks to Vlad and the GRU.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212041731

HRC had a lock on FL because of the early vote .... Trump had to get >80%
of all the vote on election day to win FL which was impossible because 2 or 3
Counties that were a large % African American voted that day too.

But still this a sign that America is done w/Trump.

[tableturner]

22. Within the Tampa city limits, HRC won. The rest of the county leans Republican.

[FakeNoose]

11. Wow, great news! Congratulations Mayor Castor and Florida Dems!

[MadDAsHell]

13. This is happening more and more. Drumpf was outspent by a huge margin.

So was Beto, and he still almost won. Old money isn't what it once was.

[lpbk2713]

14. She's a good person.

She'll make a fine mayor.

[riversedge]

16. Just in the brief material I have read, I agree.

[lpbk2713]

18. I've been following her for years.

I get my TV news on the Tampa Bay area stations.
She's the real deal.

[spanone]

17. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[Blue_true]

19. A striver all her life. Think about the discrimination that she had to overcome in her life. nt

[Codeine]

21. Outspent by about what?

Incomplete sentences give me agita.