Looking for an innovative way to get their endorsements out (i.e. cheap), Orange County Young Democrats had a cake made (see pics below) displaying all of their delicious candidates. The dessert was then gifted to the Orlando Weekly and subsequently published in Happy Town™.
Here are the OCYD endorsements for November 4th, 2008:
President & Vice President: Obama/Biden
U.S. Congress
Congressional District 7: Faye Armitage
Congressional District 8: Alan Grayson
Congressional District 24: Suzanne Kosmas
Florida Senate
State Senate District 9: Darius Davis
State Senate District 24: Kendall Moore
Florida House of Representatives
Florida House District 32: Tony Sasso
Florida House District 36: Scott Randolph
Florida House District 38: Lonnie Thompson
Florida House District 40: Todd Christian
Florida House District 49: Darren Soto
Orange County Government
Orange County Commission 3: John Kelly Harris
Clerk of the Courts: Don S. Mitchell
Orange County Sheriff: Jerry Demings
Property Appraiser: Mary Shannon
Supervisor of Elections: Bill Cowles
Orange School Board, Dist. 7: Laura Keller
Orange County Soil & Water Conservation District
Soil & Water Board Seat 1: Jessy Hamilton
Soil & Water Board Seat 3: Andy Anderson
Soil & Water Board Seat 5: Carl Howard
Florida Constitutional Amendments
Vote NO on Amendment 2
(A similar list of recommendations may also be found at the Orange County Democratic Party's website).
In their endorsement meeting, not all Young Dems could agree on every amendment, so the group decided to focus their concerted efforts on opposing Amendment 2, a particularly nasty bugger that pretends to write discrimination into Florida's Constitution.
In addition, it's a little known fact that all of our endorsed candidates running for Soil & Water also hold positions on the OCYD Board, choosing to work together as a trio dubbed The Soil and Water Team. And if that weren't enough, State Rep. incumbents Scott Randolph and Darren Soto were also active OCYD members before getting themselves into office in 2006 and 2007 (special election) respectively. Dr. Dean, we hope you're proud!
Here are a few shots of the cake as presented to the Weekly:
Help them eat it?