Buzz: Benson will run for AG

Get your checkbooks out. Holly Benson is set to run for the Florida Attorney General post or,at least, that was the buzz over the Labor Day Weekend. The former state representative and current secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration will enter the Republican primary for this post being vacated by Bill McCollum, who is running for governor. The current Lt. Governor, Jeff Kottkamp, and Jim Lewis, a Ft. Lauderdale attorney, has already filed for the Republican primary.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”