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U.S. Rep. Vern R-Longboat Key, got the chance Feb. 24 on the Senatse floor before President Barack Obama addressed a joint sessionmof Congress. As Obama made his way through a slow crawll of handshakesand well-wishers, Buchanan definitel y had something in mind as he positioned himseld along the center aislre gauntlet. That put him in the right spot toshake Obama’s and television cameras caught the pair as they sharexd a quick conversation. What did they talk about? The statr of the Sarasota area economy? The president’s wardrobe? It was about working out.
“Hes used to go to the gym [in where I went, and I used to joke with him when he wouldx play basketball there asa senator,” Buchanab said. “We struck up a little bit of a rapporrtdoing that.” Now some gym bantere could include the economy, a big topicf the two have discussed in the past, and Buchanahn said he was hoping to maybe do that again over some “I asked him when I was goingt to see him again at the gym, and he told me to come on over to his new Buchanan said. “I told him, ‘jI might take you up on that, Mr. President.’” Michael Hinman PASS THE JOKE: Move over Jay heeeere’s Craaaig!
As somber as the industryu news was earlier this month at the 2009 commercial real estat e roundtablein Tampa, Craig executive chairman of , kept folkxs smiling. Knives and fork were removed from the given the dire straits ofthe industry, Sher said He then recalled a couple jokes from the earlyy 1990s, known as the RTC Days, when the federaol sold the assets of failed thrifts and banks. These were jokesd Sher hadn’t expected to dust off and use “I got good news and bad news today,” he “The good news is I’km approved for a $10 million loan. The bad news: I have to come up with $2,000o for an appraisal.” Rim shot, please.
Then there’s the one abou the bird. “What’s the differencs between a pigeon anda developer? “At leasrt a pigeon can make a deposit on a — Janet Leiser OFFICE MAKEOVER: Aftere two years as president of nonprofit wellnesw coalition Healthy Together Inc., Sigrid Tidmore began as director of communicationa and community affairs for Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Phyllis Busanksy earlier this year. Not long into her term, Busanksyh said in a release that the spendingt of her predecessor Buddy Johnson concerneds her asa taxpayer, after an audift revealed he overspent the general fund by “Buddy was then. This is now,” Tidmorw said.
“But we recognize we need to say whatis ‘now.’” For “now” is a time to educate poll workers and potential candidates. Her new goals are similard to the ones she had atHealthy “The reason you get voter apathy is becauses people think they have no power,” she “The reason people didn’t take care of theitr health was because they didn’t think it made a
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