Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is touting her endorsements from nearly two dozen Republican elected officials, including Wellington Vice Mayor Carmine Priore and Riviera Beach City Council Chairwoman Dawn Pardo. 
Pardo says she respects Sink’s background in business and government, and she says Republican candidate Rick Scott strikes her as too strident.
“As an elected official, governing and being fair to all people on all issues is best done with someone who is more moderate than extreme, as her opponent comes across,” Pardo says.
Priore, for his part, wouldn’t bash Scott. The former president of the Florida League of Cities, Priore says he has been impressed by Sink’s grasp of issues.
“She has never failed to attend when we’ve asked her to come and speak to our group, and her message has been consistent,” Priore says. “I think she understands our issues.”
Like Pardo, Priore says party distinctions aren’t important to him in state races.
“I don’t have any problem with crossing over,” he says. “I try to leave my partisan politics to the federal level, because there I can see a difference in policy and ideology.”
PostPolitics/Ostrowski/ 09/30/2010
FL Connection/ Arnoldo Varona, Editor
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