WORDS OF WISDOM FOR POLITICAL WANNABES

"The question you have to look at is: Are people running to be or are they running to do? If you're running to be a congressman or be a legislator, then you're probably not going to do a very good job."

Howard Christopher Tompkins, II
Candidate for House District 56, 2004
1971 - 2005

Thanks to the St. Petersburg Times' Ernest Hooper for including the quote in his column, a portion of which remembered Mr. Tompkins, who passed away over the weekend after losing a ten month battle with leukemia.