{"id":8578,"date":"2025-04-27T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-florida-democrat-on-why-he-left-the-party-no-direction\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:25:18","slug":"former-florida-democrat-on-why-he-left-the-party-no-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-florida-democrat-on-why-he-left-the-party-no-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida Democrat on why he left the party: \u2018No direction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo further elaborated during a recent interview on why he formally left the Democratic Party this week, arguing the party lacks &ldquo;direction&rdquo; and has no &ldquo;purpose&rdquo; on how to deliver results for constituents.  Pizzo said Friday on NewsNation&rsquo;s show &ldquo;Blue Light News&#8221; that his criticism is directed both at the Democratic&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5269657-former-florida-democrat-on-why-he-left-the-party-no-direction\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo further elaborated during a recent interview on why he formally left the Democratic Party this week, arguing the party lacks &ldquo;direction&rdquo; and has no &ldquo;purpose&rdquo; on how to deliver results for constituents. Pizzo said Friday on NewsNation&rsquo;s show &ldquo;Blue Light News&#8221; that his criticism is directed both at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}