“It’s also important to acknowledge and celebrate the significance of our election for Florida’s LGBTQ community, who have been relentlessly attacked and demonized by the majority party in this Legislature over the past few years,” Smith said on Friday.
    • Hugin@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      He is always furious. But this is what he wanted. The gerrymandered districts he forced through pushed a bunch of swing districts into comfortably R at the expense of some extremely D districts.

      So yeah it’s great to see increased glbt representation (there is another gay senator) and latino representation but it’s not because we are becoming more tolerant. It’s because republicans have solidified control of the state legislature.

      I like Smith and am glad he won. But it’s unfortunately the byproduct of losing one or two other democrat seats in the legislature. That’s not Smith’s fault it’s the republicans fault.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      If only there were some sort of article you could click on that would tell you that.

      I’ll give you a hint before you click: He’s not a Whig and I doubt he considered the Bull Mooses.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.world
    16·
    11 months ago

    Latin or latinamerican, “latino” sounds like you guys really want to keep us segregated.