Nan H Rich

– Unified by a burning desire to unseat Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Democrats spent Saturday trying to figure out if their best hope lies in the obvious, but unofficial, candidacy of former Gov. Charlie Crist. "We have to take him down....

The center of the political world, at least for Florida’s Democrats, on Saturday was the two-story atrium at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, an oasis of cool air and sweet smells – the hotel’s signature white tea scent –...

Nan Rich is ready to speak at the Florida Democratic Party's big Jefferson-Jackson Dinner fundraiser Saturday night in Hollywood, even though the party has told her, no thanks. She has her ticket. She has her speech all written. The problem is, the...

    It's going to be tough. There's no way the party can win enough seats in the Florida Legislature to shift the balance of power in either of the two chambers. Redistricting settled that issue sometime back. Grabbing one of the Florida Cabinet...

Money. It’s the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story when it comes to politics. Though a sliver of romantic idealism remains in us all, we know this to be the slimy underbelly of American democracy.   Nowhere is the axiom more starkly...

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, says she won’t get involved in the flap over gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich’s desire to get a five-minute speaking slot at the state party’s...

Republicans and Democrats are already in heavy campaign mode for a governor's election that's 17 months away. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, held a news conference to demand...

As a life-long Democrat, a member of the Florida State Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council and executive director of the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention, Inc., it absolutely appalls me that our Democratic Party is not acting as a democracy....

Let's just say I wouldn't go out of my way to attend a social gathering of politicians and activists making speeches. Trust me, I'd rather be forced to watch a "Say Yes to the Dress" marathon than sit through a couple of hours of political types glad-...

State Democratic Party leaders are facing unrest in the ranks after denying gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich of Weston a speaking spot at the big Democratic fundraising gala next month in Hollywood. The annual Jefferson-Jackson weekend is a premier...

  Nan Rich may not get to live in the Florida governor’s mansion, but she could make things really nervous for Charlie Crist. Crist, who hasn’t announced he is running for governor next year (wink, wink, is supposedly the Democrats’...

Republicans are having some fun rubbing salt in the Democratic Party wounds over the state Democratic chairwoman’s refusal to allow gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich a speaking slot at the big party fundraising dinner next month in Hollywood....