Larry talked yesterday about Joe Trippi, Howard Dean and John Edwards’ media guru is joining Joe Garcia’s surging congressional campaign in South Florida. Today, Trippi blogged about his support for Garcia over at MyDD:
Today, I’m joining Joe Garcia’s congressional campaign in FL-25 (South Florida). I’m jumping on-board because Joe is exactly the type of candidate we need to create a Democratic wave in 2008. His campaign rejects the usual assumptions: that only Republicans can represent Cuban-Americans, that the entrenched South Florida, Cuban-Republican machine can’t be beat, that since Joe’s opponent drew his own congressional district, he is somehow untouchable. These traditional arguments are garbage and it’s about time we have a candidate that challenges them.
More great news rolled in today from DailyKos. Joe will be added to the BlueMajority list – and now has full progressive blogosphere support. The endorsement post by kos was excellent:
We are endorsing Joe Garcia in Florida’s 25th congressional district and have added him to our Blue Majority ActBlue fundraising page.
Most recently, Garcia was chair of the Miami-Dada Democratic Party and head of NDN’s Hispanic Strategy Center. But most importantly on his resume, given his district, is that Garcia was a former executive director of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, giving him credibility in segments of the Cuban community that might otherwise dismiss him outright for being a Democrat.
This is a Republican district, but not overwhelmingly so — R+4. We have 29 Democrats representing more Republican districts. IL-14, were Democrat Bill Foster just won his dramatic special election a couple of weeks ago, is R+4.8. In 2006 against a no-name, no-money Democrat, Diaz-Balart managed an unimpressive 58 percent. In 2004 he was unopposed. In 2002, when he first won the seat, he got 65 percent in the open seat race without the advantages of incumbency. Clearly, his trajectory is headed in the wrong direction.
I’m really glad to have such an excellent candidate like Joe which has drawn national blogosphere support. Such attention will not only be good news for Garcia’s campaign and South Florida, but also the growing and increasingly influential Florida progressive blogosphere.
