Obviously there is no love lost between Bob Buckhorn and Marco Rubio. The two, it turns out, have never met. If you are a U.S. senator, then the mayor of the Tampa Bay hub and I-4 Corridor anchor is a player you have to know. Absent that, it’s a snub. And it’s symptomatic of the poor outreach that Rubio has done in his home state, the one he has to carry next week if he is to have any convention hope.
And if such poor home-state prep, an undistinguished legislative and attendance record and sophomoric debate behavior leads to a Sunshine State humiliation, he will have undermined his back-up plan: a gubernatorial run in 2018. Among the thankful: Adam Putnam and possibly Bob Buckhorn. Political karma strikes again.