
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.
