We discuss Buddy MacKay, former Florida Governor and US Congressman who passed this week at 91.

Additionally, we've recorded a 1 hour video discussion about MacKay which is available at the Florida Squeeze's YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/HwO2PRL93Bk

President Jimmy Carter passed away today at age 100. We bring you an encore podcast taped in 2021 honoring him and discussing his links to Florida.

It fits in our Governor's series coincidently right during our holiday break, so here is an encore presentation of our Bob Graham tribute podcast from when he passed away earlier this year.

The Governorship of Reubin Askew was a Golden Age for Florida. We discuss it in this pod.

The emerging Florida Republican majority took a thud in 1970 as Reubin Askew won back the Governorship for the Democrats and ushered in a decade of Dem dominance in the state up-and-down the ballot.

Claude Kirk was oh so close to being on Richard Nixon's 1968 GOP ticket and with the RNC convention in Miami, it seemed written in the stars. But then protests happened and got out of control and Kirk's national ambitions were thwarted.

We discuss Florida's first post-Reconstruction GOP Governor, Claude Kirk who was a colorful populist.

We discuss Leroy Collins massive legacy both in Florida and nationally.

We've discussed Leroy Collins many times on this podcast but never taken quite the deep dive into his Governorship that we do on this episode.

The first Governor from South Florida died tragically in office- but changed the trajectory of Florida politics forever.