Al Rosellini was one of the best governors we ever had.
To this day, I do not remember whether I voted for him or Dan Evans when they ran against each other because I admired and liked them both equally.
He paid me one of my greatest compliments when he told me “Adele, you always stabbed me in the front.”
I first met him when be was a state senator who, said one old time senator, fondly, “was an absolute master at voting for all the programs and none of the taxes.” Oddly enough, his nickname during his governorship was “Taxolini.” read more »