Steve Bosquet, Beth Reinhard, The Miami Herald

June 3, 2009

Steve Bosquet
Beth Reinhard
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693

RE: Flights of Fancy – A different take on Governor Crist’s jaunts around Florida

Mr. Bosquet & Ms. Reinhard,

First, let me congratulate you on crackerjack investigative reporting. I smell Pulitzer.

It’s a dark and dirty job but someone has to do it. The Republic may have tumbled absent your Herculean efforts in breaking through the cover up concerning the Governor’s various flights. You didn’t mention if his wife accompanied him. If any laws have been broken I assume you have turned your report over to an interested Attorney General, either state of Federal.

Second, and let me say that I don’t care about tu quoque or, in our dumbed down culture, tit for tat.

The Lord Barack the Beneficent, and blessed be his Name, took his wife out for dinner and a play in Manhattan. That’s the Manhattan in New York City, not thank God the one in Kansas. Let me add, strictly for the record, that he lives in public housing in Washington, D.C. On this trip he decreased his carbon footprint by taking the 35 million dollar jet rather than the 800 million dollar 747. If he proclaimed the signing of any legislation, perhaps between courses, perhaps between acts, I am not aware of it.

Don’t you think it would have been better for him to take AMTRAK? Vice President Curley Biden knows the schedule. Isn’t promoting mass transit high on the list? Did his plane use ethanol? Do you think he joined the Mile High Club?

Get working on that story.