In Tallahassee, Elmer Fuddesque incompetence has its perks [View all]
Let’s say your boss came to you with an important task. “Bumstead, we need you to prepare a detailed analysis of the upcoming Haversham merger. This is a critical assignment, and you have 60 days to get it done.”
Two months pass. When your supervisor asks for the report, you say: “Uh, never quite got around to it. I spent the last eight weeks, leaving work early, swilling cocktails, watching Netflix and frequenting topless bars.”
A simple question. How long do you think you would still be employed? Not long. However, if you were the governor of Florida or a member of the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature you would be rewarded with gobs of campaign contributions, powerful committee assignments, re-election and a reserved VIP table in Tucker Carlson’s green room.
After all, in Tallahassee Elmer Fuddesque incompetence has its perks.
Sixty days. Two Months. Eight weeks, not to mention the various committee activity leading up to the 2022 Florida legislative session. And yet at the end of all the very impressive looking purposefully striding back and forth across the Capitol building, your august Republican public servants, including the Huey Long-lite of Florida politics, Gov. Ron DeSantis, turned out to be less responsive to the real needs of their constituents than Mel Brooks’ Gov. William J. Le Petomane in “Blazing Saddles.”
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