Kenneth Quinnell Hearts Sunshine State News

It looks like Kenneth Quinnell is still sore about losing the Florida State Committeeman race to Jon Ausman. Quinnell links to the conservative Sunshine State News' attack on Ausman to make his point. I find that interesting considering that Quinnell has repeatedly attacked the Sunshine State News.

Quinnell bragged, "I’ll be doing a takedown of this Sunshine State News attack on the Florida Education Association." Quinnell dismissed a poll on Alan Grayson commissioned by the Sunshine State News by comparing it to the conservative-leaning Rasmussen. When the Sunshine State News attacks Ausman it is suddenly a reputable news web site. Joy-Ann Reid's reporting found the Sunshine State News is run by (surprise) Republicans.

Quinnell worked on the Meek campaign. Meek won several Florida Netroots awards while Quinnell was working on the campaign and running the awards. (Meek won best use of Twitter with barely any tweets.) Ausman received a $4,000 check from Jeff Greene and later endorsed him. Both these guys have serious conflicts of interests. I am more than happy to see them attack each other.

I am just amazed at Quinnell's hypocrisy. Quinnell is a Democratic loyalist except when a Democrat blocked his accession to power. Quinnell doesn't like the Sunshine State News except when he can use it to hammer a political enemy. Quinnell is not a progressive. He uses the Florida Progressive Coalition blog to settle scores and gain access into the Florida Democratic Party. Anyone who thinks Quinnell (and for that matter Ausman) is a progressive is kidding himself.

Kenneth Quinnell Profiled On Firedoglake

Kenneth Quinnell is running for a county Florida State Committeeman seat. These are positions filled by each county's Democratic Party. Quinnell is running against party establishment candidate Jon Ausman. FiredogLake did a recent interview with Quinnell.

Update: Quinnell concedes the race to Ausman.

Florida Netroots Awards Announced

The winners of the Florida Netroots awards have been announced. Congratulations to the winners.

Pushing Rope Not Member of FNC

I was asked by the media if Pushing Rope is a member of the Florida Netroots Coalition. The answer is no. The blog isn't even on the FNC blogroll. Gene Smith officially announced that the FNC is an official Florida Democratic Party club.

On Sunday, October 28, 2007, the Florida Democratic Party Central Committee approved the recommendation of the Committee on Clubs, Caucuses and Organizations to grant approval to the charter application of the Florida Democratic Party Netroots Coalition.

Only two Pushing Rope members live in Florida. The others have no dealings with the Florida netroots. Litbrit and I are not members of the FNC. I do wish the FNC luck and congratulate them on their new status.

Update: Kenneth Quinnell informed me that the Florida Netroots blog is not affiliated with the Florida Netroots Coalition.