A SIMPLE APOLOGY JUST WON'T DO THIS TIME

Sarasota Herald-Tribune political writer Jeremy Wallace reports in his Political Insider blog that GOP U.S. Senate candidate Will McBride appears to be still upset about a question asked during a forum in Pinellas County last week.

A woman in the audience, a Katherine Harris supporter, asked the Orlando attorney during the Friday event why he changed his name from Rodriguez. When he inquired about the question afterward, the woman said the campaign had requested her to ask...a claim the Harris team denies.

McBride is of Latino descent, the son of a Mexican-American father and Dominican-American mother, but his birth certificate shows that he was born William Richard McBride. In a press release over the weekend, he called on Harris to "apologize to every Rodriguez and every person of Latino descent for implying that somehow they should be embarrassed about who they are.”

“This kind of dirty politics is what we need less of in campaigns, if Katherine Harris has a question to ask me about my family or my ethnic background she can ask me directly at any time,” McBride concluded.