Of course I think the thing that pisses me off the most about this, is how they need to raise this amount of money just to get noticed. Our system of money in politics is really messed up!

I don't know how it will happen, but we have to get money out of politics.

Randy Fine is scared he's going to lose so has been making up a lot of negative crap about Weil. There are problems of course. Some people still don't know about the April 1st election, but there there have been campaigns targeting Democrats to remind them to vote. There are way more Weil signs out than I ever saw for Kamala last fall. I think Weil may have a chance. Don't know about Gay Valimont since I'm not in her district. I do see ads for both of them on TV, which is very encouraging.

I think with all the election scheduling by DeSatan happening back in January, so much has gone on since that I can see how people would have forgotten - especially with Gaetz generally not bopping around in the media to remind them.

That does make me think, mayyyybe there's a chance 🤔

But also:

Fine is pretty desperate, it seems.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/726299-randy-fine-demands-authorities-arrest-opponent-josh-weil/

but it is critical that we do the best we can. I hope that the passion for trump has cooled just enough to keep some Republicans home on election day. Looking at votes from the primary shows way more Republican voters came out than Democrats. But that was held just days after trump was inaugurated. I'm not confident there's a chance but I have a crazy sort of hope.

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I mentioned that I've seen TV ads that were well done and he has a lot of ads on Facebook. I don't do a lot of social media, so I don't know about twitter or bluesky.

Postcards have been sent to many Democrats reminding them to vote. And Josh has sent Thank you postcards to everyone who has donated money to him (at least we got one, so I assume that everyone did), which is something I've never had from any politician before.

There are a lot of Josh Weil signs in high traffic areas. Some volunteers are going around to the homes of Democrats asking for their votes and leaving flyers for him. I really don't know what else could be done.

I must have seen at least 10 different ones. They're good too. They make Fine look vicious and unplugged, while Weil is smiling and friendly.

At least one of his TV ads does that as well. Calls fine un-American.

Do the political ads on TV appear to be more llsupportive of Weil, fine or equal?

Fine sends out those little plastic coated flyers in the mail that accuse Weil of all sorts of things, but doesn't seem to have nearly so many TV ads. It may depend on what channel one is watching. I don't watch Fox.

Yeah perhaps there are more 501C ads on Fox since it can be assumed it'll target a substantial portion of the district.

We’re talking Gaetz’s district here.

I can only guess he’s ghosting. He lives in Bay county. I hope he gets his ass kicked.

He ran against 9 others in the Janaury primary - https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/28/jimmy-patronis-wins-republican-primary-to-replace-matt-gaetz/77991142007/

Florida CD1 years ago was help by the great dem Dante Fascell who I had the honor of meeting during my Fla. political days. Bay county is in the panhandle part of Florida.

I can't help but notice that since 2000, most of the hurricane damage has been in the repug counties in Florida. I used to enjoy Rep. Fascelll's Labor Day picnic. That was always the start of campaign season. If you were anywhere in the Miami-Sade county Dem party universe, you were at that picnic. I went many times.

We had Alan Grayson a while back. He was betrayed. And Al Gore won there in 2000, but they just rigged it.

Don't fight in a swamp unless your goal is to drown.

15 of my 24 years spent working on dem election campaigns was in Florida working under the Florida election laws that the Bush brothers and the Rehnquist 5 shredded in 2000.

1. Go into those strong red districts.
2. State that you know that you are not their favorite politician, but that no one but the Democrats is going to be able to stop this war on people, and that includes the war on those people who vote for them. That will not be hard to sell given that there are new horrors being unleashed upon Americans on a daily basis.
3. Further state that if they do not like the job Democrats do in trying to save this country, then they can vote them back out in 2 years. I know I'd hire a Temp is I thought they were going to save my company.
4. I strongly believe this can be done. I could be completely wrong, but I remain optimistic, even in these dark days.

...might not be the worst strategy either

...will not bother to vote in an election where Trump isn't on the ballot. Especially if they know friends or family who have been hurt by Musk's antics. It's worth a try. If the Democrats even come close it may scare some of the spineless Repugs in Congress into not being quite as spineless and possibly opposing some of Trump's idiocy. I gave them both some money.

That neither of these districts is likely to flip and they view sending money as an investment for future growth in areas like this then I say go for it!

and get their asses to the polls to vote Democratic.

Gay Valimont has the steepest hill to climb. However...

Can't find much data - maybe others have info?

from here - https://floridapolitics.com/archives/727090-josh-weil-shocks-by-raising-more-than-10m-for-cd-6-special-election/

for Cubans won't sit well with Cuban Americans who typically vote repug. Hopefully this will also mobilize the Haitian American and Venezuelan American communities in these districts to get out and vote because tRump is also revoking their immigration status as well.