The show, which will air live every Monday from 12-1 p.m from Malio's Prime, has Greco working the microphone with co-host Dan Maduri.
The premiere wasn't exactly hard-hitting. Buckhorn was extremely gracious with Greco, and vice versa, and the word "friend" was exchanged several times.
Co-host Maduri teased the audience before commercial breaks about bringing up the six-foot rule. That's the infamous ordinance passed unanimously by Tampa City Council in December of 1999 that requires customers at nude dance clubs to stay six feet from the dancers. Buckhorn led the charge for the bill, with the backing of Mayor Greco.
Buckhorn has said in retrospect, "I think we did a poor job of explaining what it was that we were doing and as a result of that, this thing took on a life of its own," with the city gaining national attention as the "lap dance capital of the world."
On the campaign trail last year, Buckhorn mocked himself for his leadership on the issue, bringing it up for laughs (though during one debate, Rose Ferlita tried to bring it back up in a serious way, implying that he was too close to the police and was excessively concerned about law and order issues).
On the WWBA show, Greco said he wanted to bail Buckhorn out for the grief he has received for his advocacy of the six-foot rule, saying that things were going on in Drew Park clubs that "we cannot even describe, Bob, and you know that."
Greco emphasized that Buckhorn "didn't write the thing, several of us did. You were the council's spokesman because you represented the cops."
"I appreciate that, Dick, and I would do it again," he replied, adding that he took the heat for it, but was cool with that.
Of course, in a race as close as last year's, there were definitely left-leaning Tampa residents who hadn't forgotten the issue, and weren't laughing about it. But the issue was over a decade old, and didn't have as much resonance as when Buckhorn originally ran for mayor in 2003.
In that race, you'll recall, he came in third behind Pam Iorio and Frank Sanchez.
