7/17/2003
The standup guy
A St. Pete Times editorial talks about Speaker Byrd's special interest shakedown machine -- Byrd's preening has a purpose. Headline Writer: Now that he's openly running for US Senate and will be in the news all the time -- and I mean all the the time -- let's take the the pledge to lay off the Byrd/bird puns.
Byrd says Floridians will want him as their U.S. senator because he's a "standup guy." From the looks of his campaign to date, what he's doing is more like a stickup.
The Palm Beach Post's take - Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, is running for the U.S. Senate, and why are we not surprised? He set himself up in the speaker's office last year with a public relations staff of 13 people, costing the public $600,000. Either he was running for higher office or filming a major motion picture.
In the Stuart News Joe Crankshaw has a strong, outraged column -- The speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Rep. Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, is an ambitious man with apparently little shame or few inhibitions.
Byrd says Floridians will want him as their U.S. senator because he's a "standup guy." From the looks of his campaign to date, what he's doing is more like a stickup.
The Palm Beach Post's take - Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, is running for the U.S. Senate, and why are we not surprised? He set himself up in the speaker's office last year with a public relations staff of 13 people, costing the public $600,000. Either he was running for higher office or filming a major motion picture.
In the Stuart News Joe Crankshaw has a strong, outraged column -- The speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Rep. Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, is an ambitious man with apparently little shame or few inhibitions.
