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The Blog for Monday, May 30, 2005

About Rod

    The St Pete Times has an extended piece on Rod Smith today:
    Rod Smith, a former prosecutor with a courtroom swagger and a passing resemblance to Tommy Lee Jones, is standing in a lot of different living rooms these days trying to introduce himself to Florida Democrats.

    "I'm a Baptist and I'm a Democrat. I'm sure I'm an imperfect example of both. But I'm not switching from neither," Smith quipped to 100 Democrats gathered in former Attorney General Bob Butterworth's living room in Hollywood.

    "This race is going to be about who can win the whole state of Florida," he said, urging the crowd of mostly South Florida liberals to consider the importance of winning more rural Florida votes. "Throughout my life I have been able to convince the working families that the fight of the Democratic Party is the fight for their families. If we do that, we'll win again."
    "Senator labors to get name known".

    As an aside, I'm not sure anything this guy has to say is very helpful:
    "He's very charismatic. And it's time the Democrats nominate somebody who's going to represent the mainstream," said Barney Bishop, president of Associated Industries of Florida. "He's a very strong general election candidate. His challenge is going to be getting past the left wing voters in the Democratic primary."
    Yeah, like Bill McBride was some sort of raving liberal.

    Update: Florida News has some thoughts on Rod.

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