the best buddy dems could have
We have said before that Buddy Johnson is not fit to be the Supervisor of Elections. He continues to prove us right.
He’s not real good with the money stuff: Thanks to his banker’s generous lending policy, the guy has property all over the Tampa Bay area, yet he seems to have trouble paying his taxes on time.
He not real good with bad employees: Buddy Johnson has a history of letting people go with big severance pay on the condition of silence. To be fair, that practice is county-wide and like the Tribune, we would like to know what’s up with that.
He hires and promotes questionably: Johnson hired his boyhood Little League teammate Jim Reed in 2003 at $50,000. Reed got five raises or promotions within 19 months, and left the office this week making $125,000. Reed is wisely bailing on Johnson to move to Virginia to be with his wife, former Managing Editor of the Tampa Tribune, Donna Reed.
At least he is competent at the election stuff, right? Uh, nope. He has non-citizens registering to vote, and mistakes in nearly every election are well documented, too. Not to mention his attempt to collect illegal contributions for his own campaign.
Still, through all of that, he is undeterred, and is running for reelection as Supervisor of Elections this year.
I suppose he still has his connections. For instance, his campaign treasurer is also his banker.
There is no way that even county Republicans can get behind this guy for reelection.
So the question is will they find someone to run against him in the primary? Or will they just concede the race to Phyllis?
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:56 am
This position is so very important. You MUST have faith in the person counting your votes. Ronald Reagen said that voting was “the crown jewel of American democracy” — and he was right. It’s a shame the state constitution doesn’t define this as a non-partisan role. The voter’s of Hillsborough county will be well served by an honest, competent, and trustworthy leader such as Phyllis.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Charlie Crist is a local. if Charlie Crist gave a damn besides his own backside, he’d sweep in and remove Johnson due to his embarassing record and promote a temporary replacement.
But no, the state GOP wouldn’t like that so Charlie won’t do anything. Nor will anyone else in Tallahassee who has power to force Johnson out.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Conceding to PHILLIS would be delightful,except Phillis would like a little fight. But Phylliss willgive him the old 1-2 uppercut to win.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
You wanna bet he won’t have the backing of county Republicans?? I don’t know what you call the Republican version of Yellow Dog Democrat, but that’s what we have here in Hillsborough County. And since when has competence trumped party in Florida???
April 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Unless they come up with an alternative, Buddy will have the backing of county Repubs. But he is making it difficult for them.
I’d be surprised if the GOP doesn’t come up with someone else to run.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
This is outrageous. It appears that 60,000 votes were not counted and it may take 2 additional days to learn the outcome of elections in Hillsborough County. The irony is that this fool, Buddy Johnson, may actually be re-elected. He should be removed from office. It is no surprise that ONLY this county has had problems with the tabulation of votes. There were issues in the primaries and no practice runs were done here (that I am aware of) were done prior to Nov. 4th. He lied on camera about the problems at USF and now we learn that at the West Tampa Convention Center site, some voters did not receive the entire ballot…and again no comment from Johnson. Lets start the petition drive, now.