Did you happen to catch Brian Ballard’s quote about Dean Cannon’s lobbying haul?

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Tucked into an Aaron Deslatte story about Dean Cannon’s firm’s impressive $755K haul in lobbying fees for the first quarter of 2013, is a fangs-bared quote from the uberest of uber lobbyists, Brian Ballard, that does not portend well for the possibility of a Ballard Partners vs. Capitol Insight charity softball match anytime soon.

“He spent his two years as Speaker lining up a lot of that work, so it’s not surprising at all,” said Ballard, the capital city’s highest-grossing lobbyist about why Cannon’s firm was so successful in its debut.

Honestly, I don’t know what Ballard’s worried about. His firm only pulled down over a $1 million during the first quarter. So isn’t him complaining about Cannon like the CEO of Coca Cola worrying about the sales numbers of Dr. Pepper?

Still, this has all makings of an alpha-male catfight that would be more interesting to watch than Andy Cohen interviewing the cast of Duck Dynasty.

Meow, fellas.

 

Peter Schorsch is the President of Extensive Enterprises and is the publisher of some of Florida’s most influential new media websites, including SaintPetersBlog.com, FloridaPolitics.com, ContextFlorida.com, and Sunburn, the morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. SaintPetersBlog has for three years running been ranked by the Washington Post as the best state-based blog in Florida. In addition to his publishing efforts, Peter is a political consultant to several of the state’s largest governmental affairs and public relations firms. Peter lives in St. Petersburg with his wife, Michelle, and their daughter, Ella.