Miami Democrat Annette Taddeo announces bid to run for Florida Democratic Party chair
Former state Sen. Annette Taddeo has thrown her name into the running to become the Florida Democratic Party’s chairperson following ex-Miami Mayor Manny Diaz’s resignation earlier this month.
Taddeo, who made a short run for governor last year before losing a congressional race, announced her running for chair in a roughly three-minute TikTok video Thursday.
@annette_taddeo I’m in - I’m running for FDP Chair #Florida #tiktok #FL #Democrats #Tiktokpolitics #BlueWave ♬ original sound - Senator Annette Taddeo
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“After the 2022 midterms, I received many calls asking me to run for chair of the Florida Democratic Party,” said Taddeo, a former Florida senator. “I have been having conversations all across the state after much reflection. I’m ready to take up this challenge and do the hard work.”
In declaring her bid, she reaffirmed she would be working to fix a few of the issues Diaz had pressed in his 2,500-word resignation email that included a list of grievances he said led to the Democratic Party losing control of the state.
Taddeo noted the party is at a “critical juncture” and must be “completely rebuilt and re-imagined from the bottom up,” which mirrored Diaz’s suggestion on how the party should move forward.
“Maybe it is not always about trying to fix something that is broken,” Diaz said in the email. “Maybe it is about starting over and creating something better.”
Apart from organizing and motivating a “grassroots army of volunteers,” she also said she wants to work on accurate voter information as well as regain voter registration advantage for Democrats in the state.
In the last two years, Florida Republican voters outnumbered registered state Democrats for the first time in state history.
“We have to and must rebuild our brand and fight back against Republican fear mongering and lies with an aggressive year-round multilingual earned media effort that will push back on GOP extremism every day and in every media market,” Taddeo said.
