Meek hangs with the picketers, Crist sticks around to do a TV interview
09/15/2010
No-Party Gov. Charlie Crist did not show up at the non-partisan Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon today but he did make a little time to be interviewed by WPTV-NewsChannel 5 for a taped segment to be aired this Sunday on the political program To the Point.
Crist decided he could not bring himself to attend the Forum Club and urged Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek to "join me in standing up for Florida's working families by not crossing the picket line."
But while Crist was doing mike checks for his TV interview, Meek, who also announced at the last minute that he would not attend the lunch, was outside with the union folks grabbing a few free sound bites from the gathered media.
The union disagreement with the Kravis Center has been going on since 2000 and has nothing to do with the Forum Club which - like many organizations - rents their Cohen Pavillion for its luncheons.
Still, the show must go on and Brian E. Crowley of Crowley Political Report and Jon Shainman, WPTV-5 political reporter, spoke to the crowd of nearly 700.
Crowley and Shainman are political analysts for To the Point.
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