Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

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' WATN?: Some of you may recall Charlie Justice, the former Florida state senator who was highly touted as a recruit against GOP Rep. Bill Young in 2010 but ran a total dud of a campaign and quickly faded off the radar. Well, remarkably, he's back! Despite getting badly outspent, Justice won a seat on the Pinellas County Commission last month, knocking off a Republican incumbent. So how did he do it? Let's just say his opponent was very worried about getting robbed of her precious bodily essences:

Like Janet Long, the Democratic candidate for District 1, Justice's campaign has received a boost from Pinellas dentists, many of whom are irate over the commission's 4-3 vote last year to stop adding fluoride to the drinking water. Bostock voted with the majority; Justice has promised to bring back fluoridation as one of the first acts of his tenure. In conversations and speeches, he routinely says that Bostock's record, particularly on fluoride, is too conservative for a commission that has historically been dominated by moderate Republicans.
Nice to see the good guys win, for once: Justice and Long have both already been sworn in, and the commission has already reinstated fluoridation. Group Captain Lionel Mandrake for Commissioner'he's what what you might call a water man!

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