Dr William Escoffery III - FOR US SENATE (Florida)

explain to me how supporting Dr. Escoffery over Marco Rubio in the REPUBLICAN PRIMARY is handing the election to Crist? I think Dr. Escoffery has a much BETTER chance against Crist in November than does Marco Rubio, but we need to get Dr. Escoffery through the RINO REPUBLICAN PRIMARY first.. I would encourage Marco Rubio to drop out of the race in 2010, endorse Dr. Escoffery, take a couple of years to get some experience, and then return in 2012 to face off with Bill Nelson. But I don’t see that happening..... either way that is what the PRIMARY is all about my FRiends.. We can start talking about November AFTER the August 24th PRIMARY..... until then I don’t want to hear any garbage about how we need to support RINOs in the PRIMARY or we give the election to the LIBERALS.. that is garbage and anyone who thinks otherwise I remind you of the Name John McCain.. period..... end of debate... :) The CONSERVATIVE people of FLORIDA have a choice.. I trust we will make the RIGHT choice..

On the other hand, much of what he lists in his bullet items looks more like what someone puts on a resume you see a RESUME while I see a patriot when he doesn't really have that many experiences worth discussing. not sure how you can even type that with a straight face...LOL

Let me explain that comment because I have a serious point to make. Many of us have achieved little resume stuffer accomplishments throughout our careers. These aren't bad things to put on a resume when we are young and have done very little. When we get older, dwelling on them seems a bit silly.

For instance, when I was at Virginia Tech, I was vice-president of the Materials Engineering Honor Society for a year. When I was twenty-five years old, that was something worthwhile to include on my resume. In reality, I won the post by being at the right meeting on the right day. We were all too busy to do much with the society other than a little bit of bureaucratic stuff to keep the society running for another year. Being in the society was an honor recognizing that I had worked hard, achieved pretty good grades in my major, and wasn't such a jerk that no one would vote for me. At age forty-six, putting that on my resume would look silly. I have twenty-one years more experience, and if I haven't done things in those twenty-one years that would completely eclipse that little snippet of my life, I don't deserve to be hired by anyone.

My impression of much of his bio is that he's including all of these kinds of little honors that are trivial to a public that is judging a sixty-six year old man. Here are some ideas of how he could improve his presentation.

Instead of giving us the dates of each of his little jobs as a young doctor in Canada, he should be giving us an explanation of how his experience as a young doctor in Canada in the 1970's has prepared him to be a senator from Florida in 2011. I don't remember when Canada went to socialized medicine, but he could speak from personal experience about comparisons between the systems. He could either say, "I worked as a doctor in Canada before the system was socialized and know from my colleagues how much damage has been done," or say, "I was there in a socialized medicine system and know from experience that the system doesn't work." While I'm sure that he's proud of having written an article for a medical journal, his putting that tidbit in his bio makes him look narcissistic. People don't care whether their senator has a published article, and one article doesn't constitute a strong academic career. I have two articles from my youth as well, but I don't pretend that they qualify me to be a senator.

He talks of running a private lab in addition to doing Ob work in Florida in the 70's. Did running the lab mean having employees? Many voters are impressed by someone who has met a payroll. Can he really use that experience to say that he understands the concerns of someone in small business? If so, he needs to emphasize that point. If not, he needs to find some other aspect of his work as doctor in Florida at that time and tell how that work prepares him to be a senator.

He talks of being a coroner on a couple of occasions. Does that experience give him real background on law enforcement issues? If so, he needs to explain what he learned and how that learning could make him a more effective senator. Plenty of people go through life accumulating little resume-stuffer experiences, but they never put together their experiences in a way that allows them to draw intelligent conclusions. If he spent significant time as a coroner and really learned something, he needs to explain what he learned.

He won some academic awards in law school. That's nice, but so what? Politics is full of lawyers who won some awards. In many ways, I'd think more highly of him as a candidate if he hadn't become a lawyer. If he wants his law background to persuade voters, he needs to explain what he learned, how his perspective informed his legal training, how his legal training then changed his perspective, and how all of this could make him a better senator.

Dr Escoffery has been a citizen of four nations (Britain, Jamaica, Canada, and the United States). Before voters embrace someone like that, they want to know what he learned from having been a citizen of four nations and how those experiences shaped him. They want to know how that background could make him a better senator. They want to know that next year he won't be a citizen of Mexico or Brazil or Chile or Nigeria and running for office in one of those places.

Within the United States, he seems to have lived in Michigan, Kansas, Florida, and Texas. He didn't come to Florida until he was 33 years old. He lived in Florida for ten years before going back to Kansas for law school. He passed the bar in Colorado, but he doesn't say when or if he lived there. The bio that you posted doesn't tell anything about what he's done since 1994, and I don't remember that detail from his website. Has he lived in Florida at least as much as he's lived in any other state in the United States? His spending more time in other states doesn't disqualify him, but he needs to explain how living in different states could make him a better senator for Florida.

The guy sounds like an interesting character, but interesting characters aren't always the most effective legislators. Much of the whole process involves mind-numbing boredom. Does he have the persistence to tolerate that boredom and work with idiots and drones to get the job done? Is he really interested in the job or is he just looking for another interesting experience to add to his interesting life?

I'm not trying to talk you out of supporting Dr. Escoffery. If you like him, that's fine. If I lived in Florida and were familiar with all of the folks in this race, I might like him as well. On the other hand, reading what you've written and reading a bit of his website leaves me with some questions. I think many voters will have the same questions and are unlikely to spend much time investigating someone unless these questions are answered early in their investigation.

I see that you've opened another thread, but I probably won't have time or energy to do much on that thread. I've done what I can to try to add some discussion to this one, but I don't see that I can add any more. Good luck with this.

if escoffry were a serious candidate who actually worked he would have been working. revamping the website now is a joke and just a useful idiot too for crist.

mccain is pulling the stame stunt by running nobodies to run in the primary.

I am always suspect of someone who bandies about the term “patriots” in a dead ender campaign.

Escoffery is not licensed in Florida to practice law.

your thoughful response is appreciated.. I am sure Dr. Escoffery will be reading it as well. He is not a FReeper yet but I have invited him to join :)

FReegards,

David