It's where monumental decisions are made: Refusing to reinsert Terry Schiavo's feeding tube, allowing Elian Gonzalez to return to Cuba, declining to block ballot recounts in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.
Yet, the important work of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is conducted in a 96-year-old building in downtown Atlanta that's so jammed, 80 employees have to work off site.
Federal appeals court to expand
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(11/7/07) In his weekly Creators Syndicate newspaper column from Oct. 25, our own Matt Towery percolated into national political and media circles again the sensible notion that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist could be the Republican Party’s nominee for vice president next year.
Especially if either of right-wing heartstring-pluckers Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson head the ticket, Crist’s social moderation and kinder, gentler personality might be, well, just the ticket.
Whether or not, a larger point unavoidably looms for the GOP in Florida. In Charlie Crist, the man, the time and the place have all met in the state in 2007 and probably 2008.
Crist is popular with just about everybody in Florida except his own party’s meat-eating base; that base’s political proclivities – militant foreign policy, traditional social values, and perceived xenophobia – are on the outs for now with moderate swing voters.
Crist holds the cards in Florida Republican presidential race
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Thanks for nothing, Alberto. He's in the same crowd as Dr. K.