Sunday’s Tampa Tribune included a major piece on Dick Greco and his impact on Tampa’s mayoral race. A comment by Todd Pressman, a veteran political consultant and lobbyist who thinks Greco is the one to beat, was sobering.
“This is going to be the biggest political blood-letting in years,” he predicted.
Maybe Pressman was trafficking in quotable, political hyperbole. It’s been known to happen. But if Pressman is on the money, this could be depressing. Especially after what we just went through in the last cycle. Especially for an election that is non-partisan, although everybody knows who’s a Republican, who’s a Democrat and who’s a “Democrat.”
If this gets truly sanguinary, it would mean an all-call for “new blood.” It won’t be nuanced, and it won’t be nice. Ad hominem broadsides never are. Especially those lobbed in by surrogates.
Tampa doesn’t need that. Any more than the ostensible front runner does.