Alachua County Democratic Party to host 26th Annual Lawton Chiles Gala on Sept. 28

Press release from the Alachua County Democratic Party

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Alachua County Democratic Party will host the 26th Annual Lawton Chiles Gala on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at 6 p.m. at the University of Florida Hilton Hotel and Conference Center at 1714 SW 34th St, Gainesville, FL.

The featured speakers will include gubernatorial candidate David Jolly and Florida House Representative Angela Nixon (District 13).

The event is sold out.

  • Lawton Chiles….now that was a Democrat I could vote for and support. What the hell happened? Now the party is filled with leftists, Marxist, terrorists, and weirdos.

    • What happened to Republicans is the salient question today?
      “An analysis by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, found that 3,597 people were killed in politically-motivated attacks between Jan.1, 1975, and Sept.10, 2025. Nearly 3,000 of the deaths came from the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
      When excluding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the study found the political right accounted for about 61% of the deaths, followed by 23% from terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology, and 11% from the political left.”

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