“Where Democrats come together to help elect and reelect Democrats to Public office.”
Democratic Caribbean Caucus of Florida
“PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER AS ONE.”
History of the Democratic Party
Thomas Jefferson, the principal founder of the Democratic Party, believed in equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He envisaged a political organization of the common people as opposed to the economically superior elite.
The Democratic Party is the mechanism whereby change is accomplished, because it adheres to the basic principle of letting the voice of the common people be heard. Money is powerful, but in a real democracy, people are more powerful if they are organized.
Democrats have been active in Florida since the US acquired the territory from Spain in 1819. A Democrat, William Pope Duval from Virginia, was Florida’s first territorial Governor. The Florida Democratic Party first came into existence when it was chartered with the National Democrats nationwide. Republicans met with little success in Florida. As the Whig Party disintegrated, most Floridians became Democrats.
History of the Democratic Caribbean Caucus (DCCF) of Florida
The State of Florida Democratic Party political elections throughout Florida in 2000 gave cause for some attentive Democrats to meet. In December 2001, Dr. Thomas Pinder and a group of other concerned Democrats came together to study the effective ways to make our grear Democratic Party bigger, stronger and more effective focusing on the Caribbean communities.
The Caribbean communities before felt disenfranchised from the Democratic Party. The DCCF founders envisaged bringing the Caribbean communities of Democrats throughout Florida to work politically side-by-side to increase out Democratic Party voter base and turnout.
Thus, sprang the Democratic Caribbean Caucus of Florida or DCCF. The DCCF was adopted and passed by the Florida Democratic Party on March 23, 2003 and chartered on April 3, 2003. The DCCF aims to organize the Caribbean communities and gain support for the Democratic issues. The DCCF’s primary focus is to elect and reelect good democrats to public office.
