Attorney General Bill McCollum, the Republican frontrunner for governor in 2010, said he would not have campaigned with President Barack Obama for his economic stimulus package like Gov. Charlie Crist did in Fort Myers in February.
"I have a different view about that,'' said McCollum in an interview before the Miami-Dade Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner.
McCollum, a former congressman, said he would have voted against the plan had he been in Congress and would have opposed it had he been the governor. But once the legislation passed, "we needed to get our fair share,'' he said.
"I don't think it was good for the country to go into debt,'' he said. "I would not have embraced the stimulus before the fact, but if it passed over my objections, that's another story."
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