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Tampa Tribune Endorses Will Weatherford for State Representative
Aug 03, 2010

Friends,

With just three weeks until the Republican Primary on August 24th, our campaign continues to pick up steam. I was grateful to receive the endorsement of the Tampa Tribune this weekend.

“Weatherford’s profile is rising fast. He is in line to become speaker – the most prominent position in the House and one of the two most powerful posts in the Legislature – in 2012. Pasco, Hillsborough and the rest of the region could benefit tremendously. The speaker sets the agenda for the House…He [Weatherford] is skillful, personable and works well with others.

Weatherford, 30, the vice chair of the Committee on Economic Development, says he wants to help reinvent Florida’s economy through more investment capital and better jobs. The state can no longer rely on tourism, agriculture and the development industry, he said, and he suggests that too much regulation has been a detriment to expanding the economy.

Public education, he says, is the No. 1 issue. He supports eliminating teacher tenure, as he and other lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to do last regular session, and creating in its place a "pay-for-performance" plan. Weatherford helped pass a voucher bill to widen students’ educational opportunities and has worked hard to give voters an opportunity this fall to scale back an expensive constitutional amendment mandating smaller class sizes in public schools.”

To read their full endorsement, visit the Tampa Tribune’s website here: http://bit.ly/9Zl6Y3.

As always, I appreciate your support, and I look forward to a successful election season.

Sincerely,

Will Weatherford