Democats won a special election for a seat in the Florida Legislature

[Tony_FLADEM]

NEW PORT RICHEY --

Democrat Amanda Murphy has defeated Republican Bill Gunter in the race for the 36th District House seat in what was a close race.

That was the spot vacated by Mike Fasano when he became Pasco County tax collector.

Murphy received 51 percent of the vote. Gunter received 49 percent of the vote.

Fasano had wished both candidates well last month: Congratulations to both Amanda Murphy and Bill Gunter. I wish them both well in the upcoming October general election. I would ask them to put the people of Pasco first and not the special interest of Tallahassee or the leadership of their respective party."

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/10/15/special_election_tod.html?cmpid=breaking

This is a Republican seat!

[gopiscrap]

1. Excellent

wonder if the shut down is a part of this repukes loss.

[shenmue]

2. Go Amanda!

She got my vote! I live in Port Richey.

[Cha]

3. Some good news today.. thanks Tony FLADEM

[FLyellowdog]

4. Woo! Hoo! nt

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

5. "This is a Republican seat!"

Congrats! I, too, wonder if this has anything to do with the #gopshutdown.

Then again, isn't EVERY seat here in FL a Republican seat?

[Fuddnik]

9. Nah, the corrupt Florida Legislature Republicans make DC House Repukes look like gentlemen.

Hopefully voters in this state are waking up.

[Tx4obama]

6. Good news. Now the Dems in the FL House need just 30+ more seats ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_House_of_Representatives#Composition

[Tony_FLADEM]

7. The Democrats now have 45 of 120 seats in the House of Representatives.

They need 15 more seats to achieve parity. They've gained 6 seats in the House since Rick Scot became governor and 2 in the Senate.

[Orlandodem]

8. 1st Dem from Pasco elected to legislature in 20 years. The tide is turning, folks!!

We are sick of the snot nosed Republicans like Will Weatherturd!

Doesn't it feel good to win?!?!

On to victory in 2014!!

[Fuddnik]

11. The repukes pissed Fasano off.

He said he would stay neutral in the race. Then a republican PAC in Delray used his name in an ad attacking Murphy.

Fasano, who was at least a decent person (I'm in his district, and I know him and Murphy), and a bit of a maverick, went on TV the next day and said that he'd already voted absentee for Murphy. And for the last week, he's been doing robo-calls for her campaign.

Voter turnout was about 20%. Although Repukes had the better turnout, non-affilliated voters put her over the top.

[madfloridian]

16. That really helped her when he did that.

He just got fed up.

[Eleanors38]

10. Great news! I was born in Dade City in a time when U.S. 441 had a cattle gap across it,

and the town was redolent with the smell of OJ concentrate. Still have relatives in Pasco Co. The
drive-in shut down a few yrs. back, along with a lot of the orange groves.

[sheshe2]

12. K&R!

[onestepforward]

13. WooHoo!

Wonderful news!

[Rain Mcloud]

14. Cali turned,next step;Texas then Florida

If this happens then i might start enjoying Grapefruit and Orange Juice again!
Its past time to take back the government and level the playing field again.
There should be NO poor people in this country unless they just want to be!

[madfloridian]

15. That is great. Have been keeping track of that election.

Good!

[kydo]

17. This is awesome