Tampa Strip Clubs: The race for the bottom: Who will win Readers’ Poll for Worst …
September 15, 2009Brian Blair is one of this year’s nominees for Worst Local Politician.
You can only find out by reading Best of the Bay when it’s published Sept. 16 — or by attending tonight’s Best of the Bay Awards Party, aka The Loafies.
It’s a tough category to predict because, well, there were so many deserving candidates. Readers named a whole slew of ‘em. Among those nominated: “All Democrats,” “Any Republican,” “anyone against gay pride,” “anyone in the County Commission’s office,” “anyone who has focused on regulating strip clubs as their career,” “crazy WANDA,” “the Florida legislature,” and (this may be the most cynical response of all), “The Honest One.”
Just about every sitting elected official in Tampa Bay and Tallahassee got a nod, including Gover
nor Crist, U.S. Reps. Buchanan and Castor, city council and county commission and school board members of all stripes, and, of course, Buddy Johnson.