It is done. A red district knocked out a financially challenged Republican speaker of the house

[Baitball Blogger]

and voted for a Democrat.

Dorworth loses to Clelland in final recount

Chris Dorworth has lost his seat in the Florida House of Representatives.

A hand recount completed Monday afternoon confirmed that the Lake Mary Republican, who was supposed to take over as speaker of the House in just two years, has been defeated by Democratic challenger Mike Clelland.

The final tally showed Clelland defeating Dorworth by 146 votes out of nearly 74,000 cast — 50.1 percent to 49.9 percent.

Clelland, a 48-year-old lawyer and former city of Longwood firefighter who sat through much of the marathon recount process, pronounced himself "relieved and happy, obviously.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-dorworth-defeated-20121112,0,356506.story

[FLyellowdog]

1. Woo hoo!

[AlGoreRhythms]

2. I just moved to Lake Mary

and I will look at this as a welcome gift

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Hold on to that thought.

You might not see another "gift" for a long, long time.

[MsFlorida]

9. lake mary is a nice town

used to live there.

[Roland99]

21. Nice area

I lived there when I first moved to FL.

Now I'm down in Winter Garden (land of unending Romney/Ryan and Webster signs)

[LisaL]

3. Good job, FL!

[Angry Dragon]

5. Grayson in, crazy West out

[voteearlyvoteoften]

6. Thank you Sanford OFA

You registered so many and turned out the vote. Not taking anything away from Clelland cause he did it the old fashioned way by door knocking and small donors.
But it has to be sweet to be down ticket from Barack Obama.
I talked my daughters boyfriend who was voting R to vote for Clelland.
If you lived around here and saw the million Romney signs you would know how
hard it is to win as a Dem in Seminole County.

[Indpndnt]

7. Great job, Florida!

[msongs]

8. yay florida dems, how about a state takeover soon? nt

[HooptieWagon]

12. Working on it.

Still hampered by gerrymandered districts and a dysfunctional state party. Several victories this year was sweet! Pukes no longer hold supermajority in state house or senate. Grayson wins. Obama wins. West loses. Nelson wins... ok, I had to hold my nose on that one, but as a silver lining it may have ended Mack's career.
And even the smallest victories were sweet... Pinellas Co kicked two teabaggers off the County Commission, and replaced them with Democrats! yay!

[valerief]

10. Bravo!!!!

[WillyT]

11. Drip, Drip, Drip...

That's gotta be painful for certain folk.

[RogerM]

13. Excellent !

Good job FL

[wordpix]

14. Congrats FL and thank you! One more for the House!

[Initech]

15. Good news everyone!!!!!

[ffr]

16. Hey, I like good news. Something to do with blue?

A W E S O M E !!!

[Sancho]

17. This is GREAT!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. But, but, but my vote does not matter!!!!!

(Melarkey)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

19. The GOP is deaf, and...

inured to reality.

[Overseas]

20. K&R. Glad to hear it.

[Quantess]

22. K & R