The top Democrat in Florida’s Senate is leaving his party, declaring that “the Democratic Party in Florida is dead.”

State Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo, who trashed the party on his way out the door, says he will become an independent.

Florida’s top state Senate Democrat is a Democrat no more. Jason Pizzo, the Florida state Senate Minority Leader, announced on the Senate floor that he was leaving the Democratic Party. He proclaimed it was “dead” before declaring the change in his party affiliation during a live session on the chamber floor.