Devolution of a candidacy? Bill Foster is a major candidate for mayor of St. Petersburg. In a 2008 letter to the Pinellas School Board, he suggested that the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution contributed to the Holocaust and the Columbine mass murders. Indeed, this card-carrying, social conservative actually made that connection. Of course, such comments could now haunt him. Indeed, they should.
He recently pondered the predictable controversy he had created. “If I had to do it over again, I probably would have toned it down,” he said. “I don’t regret writing it.” Oh.
Should Foster be elected, it would arguably refute most “survival of the fittest” applications.