The Political Whore

Yes, politics is all fun until somebody gets Tased. Then it becomes unbearably delicious.

St. Pete mayoral hopeful Bill Foster has become the first candidate in the race (as far as PoHo knows) to get Tasered in the course of proving his worth to the voters. His campaign posted a video of the former city councilman (and strong advocate of the police) getting the juice put to him.

The campaign wrote:

Bill Foster has always been insistent that our police officers have every tool they need to keep us safe. Watch the below demonstration and see how Bill really went the extra mile when it came to arming our officers with Tasers. Ouch.

Watch the video after the jump…

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Happy Thanksgiving! Keeping it short today, gotta run off and make some buttered toast and popcorn …

• It’s a Madge and A-Rod Thanksgiving!!
• BayWalk in foreclosure.
• 27-year-old named chief speechwriter for Obama White House.
• Bush’s and Obama’s thoughts on Thanksgiving. (Bush has thoughts?!?)
• Macy’s Parade on two networks.
• Coleman extends his lead over Al Franken.
• C’mon, if a Bee Gee can’t smuggle a little doobich on the plane, who can?
• Lawyer tasered at Tamp Code Enforcement Board hearing.
• “Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.” Thanks, science.
• Lawsuit about early primary date seeks class-action status.
• Elections officials sued for not offering ballot en espanol.
• Tampa Bay’s Sarah Palin defends herself.
• Al Jazeera’s citizen journalism experiment.
• Hillsborough civic leader Bob Bondi dies at 74.

It’s not so much that Bush says Wall Street got drunk and now has a hangover that stings. It’s that he brought the alcohol to the party in the first place.

• Obama gets a little face-time with both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• McCain makes stuff up about The Surge, CBS just edits it out without comment.
• At least he’s honest about it: Robert Novak gets duped by the McCain campaign.
• Wall Street expected WaMu to report a serious loss, but no one had that number a $3.3 billion.
• Oh, come on, the Taser’s a harmless, humane way to subdue a criminal. Unless you shock the poor bastard until his heart explodes. Then, not so gentle.
• A flight carrying Ron Paul makes an emergency landing after losing cabin pressure, thereby negating the wealth of conspiracy theories that would have followed a crash.
• The new owners of the Lightning bought more than just a hockey team.
• Kevin Smith reviews The Dark Knight.