Paula Dockery, a Lakeland Republican is running for Governor, thus ensuring that there will be a GOP primary to determine who will head the ticket.
Dockery, 48 years, will face off with Attorney General Bill McCollum, the lone Republican candidate until today, in a Republican Primary race.
“What I am doing is putting my name into the mix to have the voters of the State of Florida decide who they want to hire in November of 2010 to be the CEO of the State of Florida. And my message is directly to them. It doesn’t matter who else is in the race. It doesn’t matter if five or ten other people get in the race. My job is to talk directly to the voters of the state of Florida and make the case for why they should hire me. So, it’s kind of a silly notion to ask what we think of each other because we are all applicants for the same job. And our job is to convince the voters why we would be the best person to represent them,” said Dockery.
Should Dockery win the GOP primary, she would then face Democrat, Alex Sink, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, in the general election and the state would be assurred of having its first ever female governor.
