Mmmmm, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!

This campaign we’ve heard plenty about how you can’t be pro-trial lawyer and pro-patient at the same time.

Bill Frist made the (incorrect) statement that a hospital in Florida might close down it’s trauma services because of rising malpractice costs (and laid the blame on the doorstep of tort pursuing attorneys). The hospital he named, Ft. Lauderdale’s Broward General, if it would close, would shut down emergency room service for the region.

This is true if that region were only 10 miles in radius. Hollywood Memorial Regional Hospital is only 10 miles away and Broward General, when asked for comment, said there was no talk of shutting down it’s emergency room.

And what about Mr. Martinez? He’s been endorsed by Bill Frist (patently anti-trial lawyer) who seems to forget or ignore the fact that Martinez is a millionaire trial lawyer himself. Not just a trial lawyer, but former head of the Florida trial lawyer bar.

It seems you can flip-flop and be a Republican too…or at least abandon all principle.

Oops! Forgot to add, Martinez ran anti-gay ads that were so virulent it caused Gov. Jeb Bush to denounce them and the St. Petersburg Times to withdraw their endorsement of him. They didn’t want to be associated with his “bigotry” and did not want to part of his “hateful and dishonest attacks.”

Follow this link to archived editorials for their denunciation of Martinez.

http://www.sptimes.com/