Crowley Political Report

Democratic candidate for governor Alex Sink has often been criticized for running a lackluster campaign. She has made some staff changes and today hinted that maybe she is finding her voice.

In what may be to her strongest statement yet, Sink rips GOP lawmakers in Tallahassee who are meeting today at the behest of Gov. Charlie Crist to consider a constitutional amendment banning oil drilling off Florida's coast.

GOP leaders are balking and threatening to go home without doing anything. Sink's reaction:

"Today at noon, I expect to see the culmination of the complete failure of the Florida Legislature to be in tune with what’s going on the real world of Florida. In the same chamber, where House Republicans shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling, those same Republicans will stand at their desks to claim they don’t have enough time.

"They don’t have enough time for small business owners in Northwest Florida. They don’t have enough time for the oystermen or the bait tackle shop owner or the countless other working class folks that call Northwest Florida home.’’