To the Editor:
Southwest Florida is a national treasure, and also a personal treasure to every voting adult who is smart enough, and lucky enough to live here.
As a fishing guide, then a novelist, I've enjoyed 40 years in the area, but I have also traveled to enough troubled, far-flung places to know the importance of solid, responsible and thoughtful leadership.
It is for this reason I urge voters from all parties to give serious consideration to a man who is among the smartest, most decent and responsible candidates Florida has ever produced: Chauncey Goss.
As a candidate, Goss is new to the national scene, but he is already an old hand when it comes to understanding the complexities of Washington D.C. As a former deputy staff director for the U.S. House Budget Committee, working with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, Goss is well equipped to deal with one of this country's most pressing issues: the economy.
As former executive director of the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association, he is more than qualified to deal with an issue dear to all of us: a responsible stewardship of our environment.
It is a pleasure to join notables far more politically savvy than I - Jeb Bush, U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam and others - by assuring you this: Chauncey Goss will make a superb congressman who will serve as guardian and advocate for the remarkable treasure that is Southwest Florida.
Respectfully,
Randy Wayne White
Sanibel Island
