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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has enjoyed Alex Sink’s reluctance so far to comment much (if at all) on a proposed government run health care public option being debate daily in Congress and nightly on cable news.

For instance, check out this ad that the AG has put up on his potential Democratic rival for Governor next year

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is reporting that Sink says she wants to see more of the fine details on the legislation before saying too much

“It would be irresponsible to have an opinion without knowing what the details are,” said Sink, considered a leading Democratic candidate for governor next year. “I think we’ll have to wait and see what the proposal actually is before Floridians make a decision about whether to opt in or opt out.”

Sink said she wants to compare what advantages or disadvantages Florida would have based on opting in or out of the government health care plan. “There has to be a thorough analysis,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Governor who wants to become your U.S. Senator, Charlie Crist, doesn’t need any more information as he continues to run away from his former reputation as a GOP moderate.  He tells the paper,”

“My view of it is that the public option I think may be sort of a Trojan horse to a government takeover of health care,” Crist said. “And I think our administration has demonstrated that’s not what we favor, nor do I think that’s what Floridians really want.”

The Governor made news yesterday when he said he had no idea that Barack Obama was in town on Monday, speaking in Jacksonville.

The Miami NBC News affiliate called Crist “clueless” on its web site for his inattention, or whatever it was.

Meanwhile, Crist is showing some grit today after he was challenged by a St. Pete Times/ Miami Herald report over the weekend that he’s been dogging it as Governor.

In response, Crist wrote today in the Times:

The schedule of a governor should not — and cannot — be reduced to a spreadsheet. To do so is ridiculous and does not reflect the endless hours spent briefing with agency leaders and staff, reading policy briefings and the day’s news, meeting and talking on the phone with constituents, advisers and legislators, and responding to the types of things that just simply cannot be scheduled. To look at a governor’s published daily schedule, which is provided as a simple snapshot of public events and planned meetings, disregards the spontaneity required to lead our state.

The paper also wrote similar articles about the work schedules of McCollum and Alex Sink as well.  These days it seems like everybody is bashing the Governor, but it does seem that his answer in his piece (called “Working every day for Florida” ) does seem pretty sincere and real

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