Jim Davis, who is running as the democratic candidate for Governor, has selected Daryll Jones as his running mate. This is great news, in my opinion, because Jones has state name recognition, is African American, and was once picked by Clinton to be Secretary of the Air Force. Not only that but Jones can really rally a crowd and will pick Chain Gang Charlie's LtG to pieces.
Democrat Jim Davis has selected Daryl Jones, a former state senator from Miami who was once nominated by President Clinton to be Secretary of the Air Force, to be his running mate. The campaign confirmed the selection.
"Daryl Jones has a record of leadership and a commitment to public service that the people of Florida can trust," Davis said in a statement released Thursday morning.
An F-16 fighter pilot, Jones is a colonel in the Air Force reserves who lives in Miami-Dade. He served two years in the House (1990-1992) before being elected to the Senate, where he served for a decade. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2002. Running under the slogan "new independent leadership for Florida," the Davis-Jones ticket will appear in public for the first time at an event at 9:30 a.m. at the Broward County Main Library in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Jones, 51, raised in a segregated Mississippi who was his high school valedictorian and went to law school, would be the first African-American lieutenant governor in Florida's history. The only black candidate ever elected statewide was a justice on the Florida Supreme Court.
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