*There are endorsements, and there are endorsements. Ed Turanchik and Tom Scott, for example, should matter in a simpatico way to Bob Buckhorn. Mark Ober and Pam Bondi could help Rose Ferlita in a more politically partisan way. But nobody’s seal of approval is more meaningful than Pam Iorio’s endorsement of Buckhorn. Iorio–seen as an increasingly good mayor through progressively bad times–has never been more popular. All mayoral candidates lavished her with praise. And she had seemed averse to taking sides. Until it changed.
The lesson: Some campaign weapons should stay locked in the rhetorical trunk.
*There are political lawn signs, and there are political lawn signs. Some bespeak of ideological kinship, others of friendship or name recognition or political peer pressure. But few carry the political savvy that two in Hyde Park do. Both are Buckhorn signs, and both are in front of Adam Goodman’s house.
THAT Adam Goodman. The well-regarded, Republican political consultant whose client list has ranged from Rudy Giuliani and Charlie Crist to Pam Bondi, Jeff Atwater, Dana Young and Dick Greco. One of those ubiquitous orange-hand Greco signs was formerly in front of Goodman’s residence.