McCain in Tampa today — for a few but not all
October 29, 2008 at 2:46 pm by Wayne GarciaJohn McCain is down the street from our West Tampa news factory, at the University of Tampa. But as William March of the Tampa Tribune points out in his blog, it is damned unusual to see the candidate have a no-press, no-public event so close to the election:
One thing some of them can’t figure out is why, just six days before the election, McCain is holding an event in Tampa that’s closed to most of the media and the public.
“I don’t know. I’ve been asking the same question,” said Pinellas County Republican Party Chairman Tony DiMatteo.
Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe, McCain’s county co-chairman, emphasized that national security concerns could affect voter decisions.
“It’s a very important issue at a time when people are beginning to focus” on the election, he said.
As to why McCain would hold a closed event, he said, “McCain doesn’t always do things that appear on their face to be purely political—he just does what seems right.”
