Nancy Argenziano to run for Congress as a Democrat

Source: St. Pete Times

TALLAHASSEE — Saying the Republican Party has left her and is now owned by ideologues, former GOP state Sen. Nancy Argenziano of Crystal River says she will run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat.

Argenziano will seek the District 2 seat now held by freshman Republican Steve Southerland, who unseated longtime Democrat Allen Boyd in November 2010.

"The Republican Party has left me, and I will run as a Democrat, in a sense permitting a claim to ultimate bipartisanship, along the lines of Ronald Reagan. The current iteration of the party abandoned real Republican principles long ago to cater to ideologues and corporations — the Koch entities, most notably — whose interests lie in the profiteering of America and the sacking of the middle class," Argenziano, 56, wrote in a letter announcing her candidacy. "Current Republican leaders have neither patience with nor allowance for honest elected officials, and they demand that members of the various legislatures — who, after all, have sworn to uphold the Constitution — instead just follow the hijacked party line and shut up."



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Is this a unique situation or is this happening in other states?

what put us where we are today.

so she can't be all evil.

another pretend democrat

or you get disgruntled politicians who get shut out of the GOB club yet still are right-wing. Ugh.

Let's hear what she has to say and look at her voting record.

She needs to be advocating for a third party - not for her, but for all the loonies that invaded the Republicans.

The Republicans need to clean house. It isn't the responsibility of the Democrats or the general public.

now her a Dem, I wonder if they are reading the tea leafs? Is Florida going more blue now? Are they finally seeing the crazy as crazy?