Rod Smith

It didn't take Florida Democratic Chair Rod Smith long to respond to Senate passage of new maps for the chamber's 40 districts. “Charged with implementing the people’s will, the Senate failed. Charged by the courts to redraw a map free of...

UPDATES w/ Florida Democratic Party response By Aaron Deslatte, Tallahassee Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate voted 31-6 Thursday to pass its response to a high-court rebuke of its once-a-decade chore of redistricting, despite objections...

State Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, said he plans to run for his re-drawn legislative seat this fall, but is gearing up to go after the state Democratic Party chairman post after that. Randolph said that current Chairman Rod Smith has indicated he's not...

NeJame said it was a long shot, but added that Easton is "very scholarly, very well-respected jurist. And he is a senior retired judge ... He knows death cases. He knows murder cases as well as anybody probably in the state. And he's handled the tough...

By Anthony Man, South Florida Sun-Sentinel State Sen. Nan Rich, D-Weston,  hoping to make Rick Scott a one-term governor, plans to seek the state's top job in 2014. Rich said in a telephone interview Wednesday that she's formulating a strategic and...

It didn't take Florida Democratic Party chair Rod Smith to respond to the redistricting maps drawn up by the Republican-controlled Senate Reapportionment Committee. Here's the text of his statement: “Today, Florida Republicans have taken a state &#...

"Flashpoint" examines the foreclosure crisis with attorney David Hicks. Lauren Rowe moderates the program at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6. Hicks tells her he wouldn't advise anyone to go it alone without an attorney's help during foreclosure....

On "Political Connections," anchor Ybeth Bruzual discusses issues facing the Florida Legislature next year with Rep. Scott Plakon from Longwood. Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter examines statements by President Barack Obama, Florida Democratic Party...

State Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith told me in July that the only reason he got the job running the party is  ”no one [else] would take it.” Scott Randolph, who last night was named Orange County's new Democratic chairman, didn't sound...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said today that his campaign has netted $1.85 million over the last three months, a haul that would put him ahead of the announced totals of his Republican challengers in the 2012 elections. Here's what his...

What's it like being the state Democratic Party chairman in Florida? Where, despite the fact that registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by about 600,000, Republicans hold veto-proof, two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate? And...

TALLAHASSEE — Republican Party of Florida Chair David Bitner chastised Democratic Party Chair Rod Smith for attacking the GOP-led redistricting process in an open letter Monday. “Chairman Smith, when did you exactly come to hold the opinion...