The sweet smell of money is an aphrodesiac to political operatives whose main focus is to sell hope to a hopeless candidate, not trying to elect the poor schmuck.
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I talked to Straz at his open to the public spaghetti dinner Sunday at the Italian Club in Tampa. Outside of a couple of media people, it was south Tampa socialites mixing with longtime political grifters.
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But there’s a ton of money at stake for these operatives who have to do nothing more than stroke the ego of a 75-year-old elitist who supported Donald Trump and propagandize to the gullible.
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Three city council members have sold their political futures in backing the farcical Straz candidacy: Yolie Capin, Frank Reddick, and Guido Maniscalco.
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