like to mention some upcoming finger at the national press club. this wednesday august 3 will have a book wrap with former npr commentator juan williams who will discuss his book muscled, the assault on honest debate. on september choices, governor mitch denny will discuss his book keeping the republic, saving america by trusting americans. if you d like to get on our e-mail list, see mr. mother all right here who as a sign she and will be happy to put you on our list of press club book events. i first met bob graham 33 years ago when he was a first state senator with black you running for governor in a crowded field of mostly senior state officials running in the democratic primary. i had just been assigned to the orlando saenz call has to be are. bob graham came in second in that primary which forced a runoff. and i do for the second primary i had dinner with a bunch of florida reporters who are covering the race. and who went around the table predicting who would win the n
in a crowded field of mostly senior state officials running in the democratic primary. i had just been assigned to the orlando sentinel. bob graham came in second in that primary which forced a runoff. the night before the second primary i had dinner with a bunch of florida reporters who were covering the race and we went round the table predicting who would win the next day. and everyone there with the exception of one person who was not me, predicted that bob graham would lose the next morning to charity general bob chevan. so much for the wisdom of the florida press corps. of course bob graham won the run up runoff then went on to serve two terms as governor in three terms as the united states senator from florida. the highlight of that career undoubtedly came 12 years ago when he and installed made as president of the national press club. also of note senator graham was chairman of the senate intelligence committee on september 11, 2001 and chair the joint senate and
on the other side, you have grover nord kwist and his conservative anti-tax pro subsidy crew, apprised heavily of republican freshman. they consider the elimination of any tax or excuse me, any subsidy or tax break or earmark for a corporation, oil subsidies, ethanol subsidies, they consider that the equivalent after tax hike, using tax rhetoric to be in support of corporations. it doesn t meanings mengs what to be done with medicare. we will get into that. speaker boehner balancing the pro corporate subsidy, grover, chris crowd with what i would consider providing to be a major hurdle in reuniting the republican party as they hold rank against democrats in the budget and deficit debate. of course the democrat s plan is more or less more money printing, kicking the can down the road, hanging on and pray, extend and pretend tp. call it what you want, leaving all of us once again with two crappy options. neither of them viable, welcome to the two-party system which is ameri