In my opinion, the race for worst Hillsborough County Commissioner was virtually a five-way tie between Jim Norman, Ken Hagan, Al Higginbotham, KevinWhite, and Brian Blair; but this latest stunt by Norman has him crossing the line in front by a hair (actually a double chin).
The announcement last week that Norman proposed changing the name of the Moral Courage award to include the name of the late political puppet-master/power broker Ralph Hughes had many people quite riled up … at least those who were not, ahem, influenced by Hughes.
This article appears in Sep 17-23, 2008.
