Jesse Scheckner
House Democrats are set to again confirm Tampa Rep. Fentrice Driskell as their leader on Monday.
The party has a ceremony scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday in the House Chamber to designate Driskell as House Democratic Leader for the 2024-26 term.
Driskell’s confirmation is especially notable, since she will be the first House member elected to serve consecutive leadership terms since 1992, when voters overwhelmingly approved a term limits amendment to the Florida Constitution.
As such, Driskell will “make herstory once again,” a House Democratic Office press note said. In May 2022, she broke a glass ceiling by becoming the first Black woman to lead a House party caucus.
“I’m just really very honored that my colleagues instilled their trust in me today and their confidence as we try to chart a path forward as a caucus,” Driskell told reporters at the time. “We may be a smaller caucus — we are diminutive in number — but I think we serve an important role in terms of fighting for the people of Florida, pushing for the responsibility and transparency that we need.”
Driskell won re-election on Nov. 5, defeating Republican Ronrico Smith by 9 percentage points.
Her successor as House Democratic Leader, if she remains in office, is Parkland Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, who defeated Rep. Kelly Skidmore of Boca Raton in a secret ballot among caucus members on Feb. 23.
The 2025 Regular Session begins on March 4.
8 comments
EARL PITTS AMERICAN
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 pm
Good evening America,
The Sage Earl has always approved of Fentrice.
Had the “Secret Forces” behind the Biden/Harris Debacle given Harris “THE BOOT” and selected Fentrice instead ….. the Democrats would have Beaten Trump.
THE SAGE EARL HAS SPOKEN:
Thank you America,
EARL PITTS AMERICAN
Billy Rotberg
November 17, 2024 at 6:21 pm
Funny you mention that. I’m fairly certain that if the Democrats had nominated Gwen Graham instead of Gillum for governor in 2018 DeSantis would have lost.
EARL PITTS AMERICAN
November 17, 2024 at 6:58 pm
I agree with you Billy,
Woke DEI Politics was the order of the day and to the Democrats Graham was shudder White.
Odds that Gwen would have ended up naked, and zonked out on God only knows what drug, with a sore tater hole were ZERO. Yeah Billy you have a solid point there Sir.
Earl
Billy Rotberg
November 17, 2024 at 6:27 pm
I wish her the best of luck. Perhaps she will see the light and reverse the policies of democrats that lost them the election and made Florida a deep red state.
EARL PITTS AMERICAN
November 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm
I’ve always seen Fentrice as “A REPUBLICAN IN WAITING”
SD
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 pm
Of the 160 members of the Florida Legislature, Ms. Fentrice Driskell was one of only 5 votes against enacted legislation authorizing the death penalty for pedophiles, even though top Democratic Senator Lauren Book, then-Senator Minority Leader, cosponsored the legislation and it enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support from both Republican and Democratic state lawmakers.
Fred S
November 18, 2024 at 8:29 am
Hahahahahaha. Ha.
SD
November 18, 2024 at 11:15 pm
Of the 160 members of the Florida Legislature, Ms. Fentrice Driskell was one of only 5 votes against enacted legislation authorizing the death penalty for pedophiles, even though top Democratic Senator Lauren Book, then-Senator Minority Leader, cosponsored the legislation and it enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support from both Republican and Democratic state lawmakers.
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