Sink, Bircher, Jolly, Peters, some other guyOnce Bill Young announced his retirement October 9 and then quickly died on October 18, we've written about the campaign to replace him in FL-13 a few times (here and
The big news in Florida this morning wasn't exactly a surprise. After Florida's former chief financial officer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Alex Sink, expressed interest in running for the open congressional seat in Pinellas County (FL-13), she became the focus of all Democratic attention.
C.W. Bill Young's friends and family have been speculating for years about when he would retire from Congress. Very ill, finally on October 9 he announced he would... in 2015-- and then died about a week or so later.
When C.W. "Bill" Young was born, Herbert Hoover had just led the United States into the Great Depression. Young's entire childhood past the age of 2 was in the backdrop of FDR's presidency-- first in a poor coal-mining area of western Pennsylvania and then in the Tampa Bay area. When he finally retires next year he'll be 84.
