ORLANDO, Fla. — Former agriculture secretary Nikki Fried will be in charge of the state party as Florida Democrats attempt to pull themselves out of their worst political position in years.
“I’m not even going to say we’re turning a chapter,” Fried told state party members at their meeting at the Sheraton hotel in Maitland. “30 years of losses? The book is closed.”
Fried, 45, rebounded from her Democratic primary loss to Charlie Crist in the governor’s race last year to become state party’s new chair, taking in 52% of the vote in what had become a heated campaign to succeed former chair Manny Diaz.
