The SunCoast News
Editorial
August 27, 2011
When Charlie Crist was governor, we wondered whether his political luck would hold and he would get out of town before a major hurricane hit the state.
This would have been bad for Crist because he supported the Legislature’s efforts to destroy Florida’s private property insurance market, which left many homeowners with no alternative but the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance.
Citizens probably won’t be able to pay the billions in damage claims without dunning the state’s taxpayers when a big storm hits.
It may not have been luck. According to the Associated Press, since his days in the governor’s mansion, Crist has been writing an anti-hurricane prayer on a piece of paper and either placing the paper in the Western Wall in Old Jerusalem, one of the most sacred sites in Judaism, or having a friend to do it.
This year, Crist, who was elected governor as a Republican but then wandered into the political wilderness, had Patrick Murphy, a South Florida Democrat seeking a U.S. House seat, do the honors.
Cynics might say atmospheric conditions have kept hurricanes away from Florida since 2005, but who’s to say Crist’s prayers aren’t the real reason.
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