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| Contributor | Qbanito |
| Last Edited | Qbanito Jan 10, 2010 10:31am |
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| Author | WILLIAM MARCH |
| News Date | Sunday, January 10, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TAMPA - Gov. Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio can't seem to avoid headlines, but U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek can't buy one.
Crist and Rubio are battling for the Republican nomination for one of Florida's U.S. Senate seats - and one of them probably will face Meek, a Miami Democrat.
Meek faces a low-intensity primary, against former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre.
Meanwhile, state Democrats are obsessed with their candidate for governor, Alex Sink, and closely watching their hard-fought attorney general primary - state Rep. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach versus state Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres.
Those circumstances have combined to keep Meek out of the spotlight, even though he could become the first black U.S. senator from the South since Reconstruction.
Meek says sooner or later the issues - mainly jobs and the economy - will get him attention.
"I'm 6-3, about 250 pounds, it's hard for people not to notice me," the former Florida A&M University football player joked when asked whether the Crist-Rubio race is depriving his campaign of oxygen. "In the final analysis they will know that there's a Kendrick Meek running and that he's the best candidate." |
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