She became the longest serving member of that cabinet and probably the most well-known attorney general since Robert F Kennedy.īut her tenure was filled with controversies and they will most certainly come back to haunt her in this race. Ms Reno spent decades as a lawyer and prosecutor in Dade County before President Clinton called on her to join his cabinet in 1992. "Little alligators," Ms Reno once replied, not wanting to aggrandise herself. All the members of the Reno household were reputed to wrestle alligators, living as they did on the edge of the swampy everglades. Mother was an eccentric character who swam naked, scuba dived, got stopped for drink driving and, most notoriously, wrestled alligators. Her father worked for the Miami Herald, as did her mother, Jane Wood Reno. Ms Reno is a life-long Floridian, and her history here is part of state lore. While many are saying this election will be the most exciting match-up since Hillary Clinton's run for the US Senate in New York, the fact is the race bears no similarity to that campaign. No, the real problem may be Ms Reno herself. In Janet Reno the voters will certainly have a woman who can make decisions but it could be that very ability which thwarts her quest. People in Florida want a governor "who's not afraid to make the hard decision, to stand up for those decisions".
"I've spent the last three months talking to people all across Florida and I think they share my vision for Florida - building the best educational system in the country, preserving our environment, managing our growth and standing up for our elders," Ms Reno said. Instead of the conventional news conference in a bland hotel banquet room, she called reporters to her home in south-west Miami, a place that with its peeling paint and screened-in porch, would be called "modest" only if one was being polite. Ms Reno announced her candidacy for the Florida governorship this week, in a fashion rather typical for her and completely atypical for US politics. Janet Reno, the six foot, one inch former US attorney general versus Governor Jeb Bush, the slightly befuddled brother of you-know-who, who succeeded in delivering the presidential election, by hook or crook, to his brother last November.
In an era when most political campaigns carry the mystery and intrigue of a cheese sandwich, this one promises to be different.
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