From Keith Laing of the News Service of Florida: Florida Democrats formally handed the keys over to former state Sen. Rod Smith Saturday, elevating their most recent nominee for lieutenant governor to party chairman at a time when there are very few Democrats at the state Capitol.
Smith, 60, in turn, told a boisterous crowd of about 300 gathered at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee that it was time to get over the election last fall that diminished their numbers