{"id":109377,"date":"2023-02-27T00:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=109377"},"modified":"2023-02-27T00:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:44:47","slug":"nikki-fried-to-lead-florida-democrats-as-party-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=109377","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nikki Fried to lead Florida Democrats as party chair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3873178-nikki-fried-to-lead-florida-democrats-as-party-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Florida Democrats tapped former state Agriculture Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/nikki-fried\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikki Fried\u00a0<\/a>as their new chair on Saturday, tasking her with revamping a once-formidable state political party that has struggled to stay competitive in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fried, a lobbyist who unsuccessfully challenged former Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/charlie-crist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Crist&nbsp;<\/a>(D-Fla.) for the Democratic gubernatorial nod last year, beat out three other prominent Democrats \u2013 former state Sen.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/annette-taddeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annette Taddeo,<\/a>&nbsp;progressive activist Carolina Ampudia and Broward County Democratic Party Chair Rick Hoye \u2013 in a vote by the party\u2019s executive committee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019ll go on to succeed former Florida Democratic Party Chair\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/manny-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Diaz,<\/a>\u00a0who abruptly resigned last month following a disastrous 2022 midterm election for the party in Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Florida Democrats tapped former state Agriculture Commissioner\u00a0Nikki Fried\u00a0as their new chair on Saturday, tasking her with revamping a once-formidable state political party that has struggled to stay competitive in recent years. Fried, a lobbyist who unsuccessfully challenged former Rep.&nbsp;Charlie Crist&nbsp;(D-Fla.) for the Democratic gubernatorial nod last year, beat out three other prominent Democrats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109378,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109377\/revisions\/109378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}