Palm Beach Post Endorses Rod Smith

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In fairness, they also endorsed Charlie Crist on the GOP side.

Palm Beach Post Editorial

Sunday, August 13, 2006

In 1970, a little-known Democratic state senator named Reubin Askew was elected governor. In 1978, a little-known Democratic state senator named Bob Graham was elected governor. In 2006, another little-known state senator is the man Democrats should choose to run for governor.

Rod Smith spent eight years as the chief prosecutor in Alachua County, sending Danny Rolling to Death Row in 1994 for the murder of five college students four years earlier. In 2000, he won his eight-county, Gainesville-based Senate seat, and his six years in Tallahassee set Sen. Smith apart from the other Democratic contender, U.S. Rep. Jim Davis of Tampa.


"Don't kid yourself," Sen. Smith says. "There will be a Republican Legislature after this election. A Democratic governor has to be able to work with the other party." Sen. Smith has done that, on big issues. He got together enough bipartisan votes this year to prevent passage of constitutional amendments to abolish class-size rules and overturn the Florida Supreme Court ruling that Gov. Bush's voucher program is unconstitutional. In 2005, he helped stop the Senate from intervening a second time in the Terri Schiavo case. "Given the part of the state where I'm from," he said, "the Schiavo vote was not an easy vote."

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