Trib slams Buddy Johnson
May 14th, 2008 by Wayne Garcia in Politics, Tampa Bay Politics
Embattled (yes, it’s reached that point) Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson got his head handed to him on this morning’s Tampa Tribune editorial page, in a piece that proclaims Johnson’s credibility is (in the immortal words of Lili Von Shtupp) kaput:
It’s one thing to shrug your shoulders at paying your taxes on time or defending your tax loophole because everyone else tries it, too. But it’s quite another to treat the election process so cavalierly.
Shortly after former Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Johnson to fill former Supervisor Pam Iorio’s term after she quit to run for mayor, Johnson traveled around the country spending taxpayer money to become certified in his job and, theoretically, good at it. For a while, he even wore a two-inch lapel pin that proclaimed his certification.
Judging by the ignorance he recently showed in sworn testimony, it appears taxpayers got little value for his travels.
On the upside, however, he did once run a helluva restaurant.
(Full disclosure: As a political consultant in the mid-1990s, I did work for Johnson’s current opponent, Phyllis Busansky.)
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
The restaurant is still pretty good, even though Buddy is busy pretending to run the elections supervisor’s office.
I wonder of Phyllis Busansky is measuring the drapes yet.