St. Petersburg Times Endorses Kevin Beckner

Newspaper endorsements don't mean much. It does give Democratic Hillsborough County Commission candidate Kevin Beckner free advertising. All that is left for Beckner is the prestigious Creative Loafing endorsement. The winner of that endorsement reaches the voter demographic of people that read sex and massage parlor ads.

The St. Petersburg Times on Beckner:

His challenger, Democrat Kevin Beckner, would bring vision and sensitivity to this countywide job. A financial planner and former police officer, Beckner, 37, would move away from wedge issues and focus on real challenges — creating jobs, improving the transportation system, building parks and preserving endangered land. Beckner has commonsense ideas for jump-starting the local economy, making government more efficient and using mass transit to lessen the pain of high gas prices.

The underlining theme of the Tampa Tribune and Times endorsement is both newspapers strongly disapprove of Brian Blair. The Trib belittled Blair's intelligence and the Times questioned Blair's "qualifications and judgment." Both publications question if Blair can walk and chew gum at the same time.