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Alex Sink mastered banking, but political ease is a stretch for the bookish candidate
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| Contributor | Qbanito |
| Last Edited | Qbanito Oct 16, 2010 10:42am |
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| Author | Mary Ellen Klas |
| Media | Newspaper - Tampa Bay Times |
| News Date | Saturday, October 16, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Alex Sink returned to North Carolina after a failed marriage and a three-year stint in West Africa, she threw herself into something just as foreign: the male-dominated world of banking.
Sink rose from lowly branch planner to chief executive of NationsBank Florida — now Bank of America — becoming among the highest-ranking female executives in her field.
"I worked harder and had to be smarter," Sink said of her 26 years at the bank. "I had to be tough and not take 'no' for an answer."
Now Sink, 62, wants to pierce the gender barrier again. This time, to become Florida's first female governor.
"It didn't take me 24 hours to get into the race," Sink
tells her audiences. "I've sat back for the last four years and watched the state that I love fall into an economic abyss."
For Sink, the quest to become Florida's first female governor seems less of a distinction than a natural progression in a life spent crossing divides.
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