Reconsider, Sen. Pizzo: Independent candidates can’t win

Editorial: Reconsider, Sen. Pizzo — Independent candidates can’t win

Democrat-turned-independent state Sen. Jason Pizzo has announced a campaign for governor, and wealthy attorney John Morgan has been making noise about forming a third party. Either of these is enough to doom Democrats' already-tenuous chance at the Governor's Mansion.

Reconsider, Sen. Pizzo: Independent candidates can’t win

In the current state of Florida politics, the only thing rarer than a Democrat being elected governor, which hasn’t happened in three decades, would be for someone to win as an independent — which has never happened. That is what Sen. Jason Pizzo wants to do. He should reconsider. The ex-Democrat from Sunny Isles Beach still has more in common with his old party than the GOP, and his third-party run would assure a Republican successor to Gov. Ro…