Staff Reports
It was a simple question: “Where are you from?”
House District 72 Democratic candidate Margaret Good has not been shy about being raised outside of Florida. But when asked recently by a reporter with WWSB, the Sarasota attorney seemed hesitant to clarify exactly where outside Florida.
Good is facing Republican businessmen James Buchanan, who holds a slight three-point advantage in latest polling, for the HD 72 special election February 13. Libertarian candidate Alison Foxall is also in the race.
“Um … Well … My father is a fourth-generation Floridian,” Good responded, before adding that he came from “Central Florida, just south of Ocala in a small town called Ocklawaha.”
When pressed further, Good then admitted she was raised in “South Carolina and Georgia.”
Buchanan’s camp was quick to pick up on the hesitation.
“If Margaret Good won’t be honest about where she’s from, how can we trust anything she says or promises?” said Buchanan campaign manager Nick Catroppo.
Catroppo suggested that in addition to Good being from out of state, she is also getting some powerful out-of-town help from well-known liberals.
“Now we learn, besides Bernie Sanders’ progressive volunteers invading Sarasota,” he said in an email to Florida Politics, “she’s getting help from Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley who has one of the worst job and economic records of any Governor.”
HD 72 covers a sizable portion of northwestern Sarasota County, including Siesta Key. The seat opened in September when Republican Alex Miller — after serving less than a year — resigned, citing business commitments, and raising two teenage sons.
Video of the exchange can be viewed here and at mysuncoast.com:
One comment
Ron
January 30, 2018 at 4:26 pm
It was clearly a rehearsed response that she momentarily forgot. Desperate not to concede one advantage to her opposition, particularly Alison Foxall – who was born and raised in Sarasota’s District 72. Margaret is evasive, wanting to skirt the question or spin it to her favor….like a typical politician….she’s been groomed by her party handlers in that regard! Buchanan is just as evasive on the debate avoidance question. Typical partisan party politicians…all spin, no substance. A lack of honesty on basic question.
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