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Do we actually need a Lt. Governor? Nope
Being lieutenant governor of Florida is like being the best basketball player on that team that loses to the Harlem Globetrotters every night.
Its natures way of saying youre an under-achiever but a darned good one.
Its hardly a stepping stone or power base; five of the nine previous lieutenant governors have attempted statewide races, and none won. The only two who became governor served for a total of less than four weeks. But they were real governors while it lasted, with portraits hanging in the Capitol to prove it.
Still, they are sort of footnotes in history, the Rodney Dangerfields of Florida politics. Its like the meanest barb the late Sen. Eugene McCarthy ever made, in a career of tart remarks, when he said of fellow Minnesotan Walter Mondale, He has the soul of a vice president.
Gov. Rick Scott will soon select a replacement for ex-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, who resigned last week amid a federal racketeering and fraud investigation involving those internet cafe joints where you can buy a phone card and go online to gamble. She has not been accused of any criminal offense.
Scott has said he will wait until the Legislature adjourns May 3 to choose a new deputy. Since the job pays about $125,000 a year and is mostly indoor work, he wont lack for applicants.
But Scott, who has eliminated thousands of state jobs, would probably like to delete one more if he could. Maybe he could choose a lieutenant governor who only wants the job through January, 2015, and ask next years Legislature to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to abolish it.
Lt. Gov. Wayne Mixson used to tell friends he kept a little mirror on his desk to hold under Gov. Bob Grahams nose every morning. If the mirror fogged, Mixson had the day off. He exaggerated; like some other No. 2 men, he ran the old Department of Commerce.
Mixson is one of the two who actually became governor, for three days of 1987, when Graham left early to take his seat in the U.S. Senate. The other was Lt. Gov. Buddy MacKay, who served for 23 days when Gov. Lawton Chiles died in 1998. MacKay ran for governor that year but lost to Jeb Bush.
The only time we really needed a lieutenant governor was before we had one. Gov. Dan McCarty died in 1953 and then-Senate President Charley Johns became acting governor. He was beaten in 1954 by LeRoy Collins. Somehow, we muddled through without a lieutenant governor until 1968 constitutional revision, when the job was created.
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SCPD searching for endangered teenager
Police News Friday, 22 March 2013 10:35
St. Cloud police are asking the public's help in finding a local teenager missing since Feb. 18.
On that day, Ashley Marie Kun, 16, was reported missing by her family. According to the family, Kun went to St. Cloud Library at 810 13th Street St. Cloud and did not return to her home in St. Cloud. Kun was last seen wearing a navy blue shirt hooded sweatshirt, dark blue jeans, white sneakers and carrying a plaid purse and backpack. Kun has medical needs that require her to her to take medications and she does not have her medicine with her.
Kun is described as white female, 56, 132 lbs; blonde hair, and blue eyes. Kun has been entered into state (FCIC) and national (NCIC) crime databases as a missing endangered juvenile. Anyone with information about Kuns whereabouts is asked to contact the St. Cloud Police Department.
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