Public Service Announcement:

This time, it's a real public service announcement.

The Florida primaries are coming up on August 31! Floridians will be voting on the Republican and Democratic candidates to replace Senator Bob Graham's place.

In the democrat's corner you have:

Betty Castor:
Ms. Castor has a killer education background as a former teacher, president of the University of South Florida and Commissioner of Education. Unfortunately, the "issues" page of her website is pretty weak compared to her main rival's. She doesn't give as many specifics as Peter Deutsch, but she must be doing something right as she's leading him in the polls.

Peter Deutsch:
Mr. Deutsch has a long record of public service both in the florida legislature and as a US congressman. A bonus to this is, of course, you can check out his voting record. He seems pretty a-ok to me... except that he was rumoured to be involved in the smear campaign to paint Ms. Castor as an evil terrorist protector.

Alex Penelas:
Mr. Penelas has served 2 terms as the mayor of Miami-Dade. The main thing that sets him apart from Deutsch and Castor is his desire to pull the majority of US troops out of Iraq. His "issues" section is also kinda lame, but I highly recommend the "Meet Alex" section if you want to know some of what he's accomplished for South Florida. Working against him is the fact that he's seen as a democratic party traitor for not sucking up to Gore enough.

There's also some shmuck named Bernard Klein running. No one seems to know much about him. He doesn't seem to be bothered by that. So, I'd probably recommend against voting for him, even though there was a much-loved Maniac Mansion character named Bernard and we all know that goes a long way with me.

As far as republicans go, you can look them up yourselves but they all look like jackasses to me.