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Democratic lawmaker immediately defects to GOP after winning re-election (www.rawstory.com)

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Florida state Rep. Susan Valdés announced Monday she is defecting to the Republican Party — immediately after being re-elected as a Democrat.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how this isn’t illegal in some way.

Who is going to arrest her? DeSantis?

She's a Cuban ex-pat whose harshest criticism of the GOP was that they were too much like Fidel Castro. She ran unopposed twice, after the Dems cancelled the primary and let her waltz through unopposed. Now she's facing an entrenched majority GOP that happily rewards turncoats and completely freezes out the rump opposition. This is her last term in office before retirement, so she can flip the bird to her constituents and cash out at last. Why are you surprised she flipped?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 22 points 2 weeks ago

Not surprised, just calling it as I see it, despicable and deplorable.