Announcement comes less than three weeks after dramatic exit from Democratic Party
By Anthony Man | [email protected] | South Florida Sun Sentinel
State Sen. Jason Pizzo, who’s talked about running for Florida governor for much of the past year, is ready to move beyond talk. He says he will run for the job next year.
The part that was unexpected, until just a few weeks ago, is the label that he’ll be running under. On April 24, he denounced and quit the Democratic Party and changed his registration to no party affiliation. So he’ll be running as a no party affiliation/independent candidate.
“Yes, I am,” Pizzo said in an interview that aired Sunday on WFOR-Ch.4’s “Facing South Florida.”
Pizzo said he is equipped to handle the challenge of what he predicted would be a coming state budget deficit. He said he would focus on issues that matter to people, not “the rhetoric that the Republicans want to push” and won’t offer the “visceral reaction that Democrats have to every little step or statement that the Republicans make.”
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