Jeff Clemens not attending Democrats’ convention
State Sen. Jeff Clemens

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Incoming Senate Democratic leader Jeff Clemens is not going to be at the Florida Democratic Party’s convention in Orlando this weekend.

Clemens, dealing with the breaking news that he engaged in an extramarital affair with lobbyist Devon West, is spending time with family instead of with the party, spokesman Christian Ulvert said Friday.

The news broke Friday morning when POLITICO Florida reported that Clemens was apologizing for having an affair with the lobbyist during the last legislative session.

He was not among the featured speakers during the three-day 2017 FDP State Conference that began today at Disney’s​ ​Coronado​ ​Springs at Walt Disney World. Party officials did not respond to inquiries about whether Clemens, of Lake Worth, was scheduled to speak at any of the break-out sessions, or if he was to be featured in any other capacities.

“He’s going to be with his family,” Ulvert said.

Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].



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