Charlie Crist’s humanity laid bare by, wait for it, the Tampa Bay Times

Charlie Crist’s humanity laid bare by, wait for it, the Tampa Bay Times

The first campaign finance reports since St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch had more than $200,000 stolen from his political committee are now public, and it creates clear insight into how Welch’s re-election campaign is shaping up. But this column isn’t about the dollars and cents of the 2026 St. Pete mayoral race. Instead, let’s talk about the Michael Van Sickler story published in the Tampa Bay Times over the weekend (it was online Friday, in print Sun…