Refusing to let it go, Rourk said online meetings are more family-friendly, more considerate of older people who won’t drive at night, and people who have disabilities. “She’s approaching this like she’s a teacher, that she needs to teach all of us how to do it right.” “I wish she would just let it go,” Rourk said.

Sean Rourk of Palm Beach Gardens, the local party vice chairman, who also won by one vote, was critical of Koch’s handling of logistics. (Does this sound like a place that’s prepared to deliver a victory for Joe Biden next year and take out Sen. I wanted to see it for myself, but nobody bothered to push the record button. The May meeting was a fiasco, as tech-challenged party members held scrawled, hand-written questions up to their phones while others were unable to unmute themselves. The compromise result is a hybrid of remote and in-person attendance. But Koch, with a nudge from state party chair Nikki Fried, urged a return to in-person meetings. Case in point: Party progressives insisted on virtual Zoom party meetings every month.

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