This web video was released this morning by the 527 group “Don’t Bank on Sink,” run by Gainesville businessman Jay Navarrete. The video jumps off this AP story that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink used the state plane to pick up and drop off her husband in Tampa Bay. Sink has re-paid the state for his costs.

But the ad tries to paint Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink as out-of-touch with state taxpayers and pulls footage from her ’06 campaign in which she promises to end the “spending spree” in Tallahassee.

This story from the Times-Herald, however, shows that Republican candidate Bill McCollum also has his share of questions surrounding his taxpayer-funded travel.

The anti-Sink group’s spokesman, Alachua County Republican Party Chairman Stafford Jones, acknowledged that McCollum isn’t squeaky clean on this issue. But he said Sink, the state’s chief financial officer, should be held to a higher standard.

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