Crowley Political Report

Mike Bender moves upstairs in the Florida Press Center on Monday when he joins the St. Petersburg Times Tallahasssee Bureau. 

Bender's final story at The Palm Beach Post is a very good profile of Republican candidate for governor Rick Scott.

It is this kind of reporting and writing that convinced the Times to add Bender to their Tallahassee team.

An excerpt:

Rick Scott could not look away from the TV on his campaign bus as a cheetah blurred across the screen, sprinting after a panicked gazelle.

"We saw some lions try to catch a cheetah," Scott said, reminded of one of the four safari trips he has made to Africa.

"There's no way in the world," he concluded. "A cheetah is so much faster."

Scott watched the televised pursuit with a childlike amazement - a look one might not usually associate with a businessman better known for being a predator in the cutthroat world of American capitalism.

Good luck Mike and here's the story about Scott.