To recap Fl-15:
- Open Seat (was held by retiring Republican Dave Weldon).
- PVI is only +4R.
- Registration trending Democrat.
- Obnoxious winger opponent.
- Good guy on our side running.
- Tidal wave change year nationally & in Florida.
- Yet, pretty much being ignored by both Netroots and DCCC.
- Netroots have fallen in love with many other races that have far steeper Republican PVI's to climb, and with Republican incumbents, and so inherently harder to win then this Open Seat.
- I know he has been dismissed by standard argument that he could not raise much money on his own, therefore not viable. This seems to me to be the stupidest old-school (pre-Dean)argument. See 1-6 above for why it is just dumb to be ignoring FL-15.
- My counter-argument is that is a circular self-fullfilling prophecy, and leads to ignoring good candidates who not either rich or already connected to rich people or corporations; not a good way to get good indepdendent people. Here is his ActBlue page.
Here is his basic 30 Second Spot:
Here is his issues page.
Here is his action plan.
action plan
Disclaimer:Despite the name and initial I am not he, and he is not me. I am Pediatrician in NY and he is a Family Physician in Florida. We are not in any way related, and I have met him in person just once, at the 2007 national meeting of Physicians for a National Health Program. I do not work for his campaign; I just support him from afar.