One of the stories on the front page of the June 25 Crestview News Bulletin includes comments from outgoing District 5 State Rep. Don Brown’s appearance at the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce’s governmental issues meeting Tuesday morning.

I quoted Brown as saying, “It reconfirms my opinion our governor is a classic demagogue,” with ‘it’ being Crist’s recent reversal of his stand against drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

The exact quote was this: “It reconfirms my opinion our governor is a classic demagogue.” Brown then said, “I see you typing and the cameras recording, so let me say it again: It reconfirms my opinion our governor is a classic demagogue.”

So, Rep. Brown, what do you really think?

I wish we had room to print the full article (we cut out Brown’s informative comments on topics like gas prices and the recent legislative session) and I wish we had room to print all of my notes (I typed up three full pages during the meeting). It was one of the most informative yet entertaining hours of my time at the News Bulletin.

Brown summed up his status as a lame-duck legislator thusly: He’s like the elderly fisherman who declines to give a bullfrog a kiss that will transform it into a beautiful princess. Reason? He says he’s at the point in his legislative life where he’d rather have a talking bullfrog.

I don’t think we’ll hear anything like that from John McCain or Barack Obama anytime soon.

What is your opinion of our soon-to-be-former state representative? Seems to me that if he has a flaw, it was that he was too honest to be a politician.

Post a comment and let me know what you think.

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