I'm still in Florida, working more than vacationing (first time to Florida's Keys, what a place!) this week. I stopped by and visited with the Betty Castor campaign wed afternoon in Tampa Bay. It was a bit of a funny entrance, upon arrival and looking for Larry Biddle, Castor's finance director (and a fellow warrior from the Dean campaign). The campaign has two separate offices, on the opposite sides of a busy road, so after chatting a bit with the field office, I was directed across the busy road to the finance office, near the Pie Factory, and instead of heading for the second floor, I wound up inside the Pie Factory office, with someone getting 'Larry' from the kitchen, but not the right Larry... anyway, I thought it was funny. Here's the real Larry at work raising dough for Castor's campaign. With Larry, and the campaign's webmaster Joe Jones, we followed Betty and her husband Sam to eat lunch at the Cuban place across the street. Black beans, white rice, & platanos, I know it gets more complicated than that (though not much more, for vegetarianos) but it's good enough for me. I tried to overhear the Cuban owner's remarks about Duetsch, but the gist of it was, that Castor had his vote...
I'm more like the DSCC than DailyKos in this regards, as I do like to get involved in choosing sides within the Democratic primaries. In Florida, MyDD wholeheartedly endorses Betty Castor for the US Senate in Florida. Amongst the candidates in the GOP primary, with the Miami Republicans already jumping Johnnie Byrd's sinking ship, and with McCullum having nowhere but down to go, Mel Martinez is going to win the Republican nomination, and he's going to be a strong candidate in the General. And since 2004 is the year of electability, hands down, Central Florida's Betty Castor beats the south floridian pair of Duetsch and Penelas as the Democrat most likely to beat Martinez.
Here's Joe Jones and Sam Ritzman in the field office, where we chatted about the intricacies of blogging. If the name Joe Jones sounds familiar, you probably visited one-time Presidential candidate Bob Graham's blog, of which Jones was the chief blogger.
Joe's the webmaster for Castor's campaign website BettyNet.com, and along with Sam Ritzman (on the right) from the Research & Policy side of the campaign, blogs for the campaign's BettyBlog.com.
If you're in Florida, jump on board Betty Castor's campaign and help to elect her to the US Senate.
And all of this upcoming week, follow along and help Betty climb the fundraising mountain.
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