David Jolly Town Hall

David Jolly Town Hall, 5:30 p.m. at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 6500 Belle Terre Parkway. David Jolly, a centrist Republican U.S. Representative for Florida’s the 13th Congressional District in Pinellas County from 2014 to 2017–he defeated Alex Sink–switched to the Democratic Party in April and is considering a run for governor, a decision he intends to make around Memorial Day. He is the Executive Vice President and Principal of Shumaker Advisors Florida. “Jolly has been attending Democratic town-hall meetings since he announced that he was considering a run for governor a month ago,” the Florida Phoenix reported, “and he says those meetings have encouraged him to step back into the political arena. The intensity displayed in these events in reaction to the first months of the second iteration of a Trump presidency shows that Democrats have a chance to win back voters disaffected by the party in recent years, he said.” Jolly has been an analyst for MSNBC and has been featured in numerous national media.