By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher
AUG. 10, 2018 | The primary in the state of Florida will be held August 28. A situation there has developed similarly to what happened in Georgia.
Republican Adam Putnam, the state agricultural commissioner for eight years, announced early that he would run for governor, and was the odds-on early favorite and establishment candidate, it appeared.
Then a Yale plus Harvard law grad and former JAG and U.S. Navy SEAL officer, Ron DeSantis, jumped into the race. He’s been a congressman from northeast Florida since 2013, and a down-the-line supporter of President Trump. He seems to be picking up momentum. Then President Trump went to Tampa and endorsed him.
On the Democratic side, Gwen Graham, former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham’s daughter and one-term member of Congressman, seems to be leading on that side in recent polls, though independently wealthy former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine entered the race, as did another wealthy south Floridian, Jeff Greene, who started blanketing the state with TV commercials.
Florida is different from Georgia, supposedly a swing state with Democrats actually outnumber Republicans in voter registration.
It all appears there’s a horse race in that state with President Trump having a favorite. And no telling what will happen before August 28. We’ll await anxiously.
SOMEONE SENT me this, and it may sounds like lots of people I have talked to:
“I keep imagining a time again when I’m in the voting booth and have two good choices.”
MANY OF US were saddened to attend the funeral this week of Bill Smith, whose charitable work in establishing, raising money and funding the WES (When Everyone Survives) Leukemia Research Foundation was exemplary. The Smiths lost a son to that disease. Just recently, on July 6, it was announced that the Foundation would donate $200,000 this year to four scientists to continue the story. Over the years, the Foundation has donated $1.7 million to this research.
Smith, 67, was once the Stone Mountain Ford dealer, and also operated Heritage Colonial Mercury dealership on Scenic Highway. What made his passing particularly sad was that he had remarried in May of 2018.
William Eugene (Bill) Smith: 1951-2018: May you rest in peace.
PET PEEVE DEPARTMENT: Readers may be astounded to know how many people in the public relations field take a mighty lazy approach to writing a press releases.
If we have seen one, we must have seen at least one a week, of the stories that begin this way: “This Company or That is pleased to announce……..”
Over and over we see stories starting off this way. “….pleased to announce.” It gets our goat. Yes, we change such releases sent to us. We simply make it read: “This Company or That announces…..” For that “pleased” business!
Besides it being a sloppy and lazy beginning of a story, let’s face it: the company itself cannot be pleased. (And maybe the company can’t even announce!) Maybe people in the company may be pleased because of the announcement, but a company is not a living, breathing person. We know that such an entity doesn’t have the means even to give a hoot.
All you PR scribes: get more creative!
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