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14. So I live a district and a half away from Alex Sink. She is, like all of us, flawed, but on the

whole, a good person. She's far better than Charlie Christ ever came close to being. Florida's 13th District is complex and competitive. It's almost everything between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico with a little piece of St. Pete chopped into Kathy Castor's district (Florida 14th).

Yeah, agree that Alex Sink lost two very close elections - and that one of them was the 2010 Governor's race against Rick Scott. Like Charlie Christ, Alex lost by about one percentage point.

2010 was an anomaly. If that election were in 2008, Sink would have won in a landslide. If it had been in 2012, she would have won with plenty of breathing room, But you get the electoral environment that exists at the time and not the one you would like to have had. 2010 was hard for Democrats lots of places, not just Florida and you can't lay that just on Sink. Touting ACA would not have helped her in Florida's 13th. It would have turned a reasonably close race into a bloodbath. Have you seen Sen Schumer's comments on ACA? Sink was more supportive that he was.

Look, she won statewide before losing these two races. She took her lumps and has effectively retired from electoral politics. We don't need to gang up on her and don't need a pound of flesh. Thanks for your service Alex.