A message to Rene Flowers: It’s OK to support Ken Welch, but don’t feign surprise when he draws a challenge

A message to Rene Flowers: It’s OK to support Ken Welch, but don’t feign surprise when he draws a challenge

Ken Welch and Charlie Crist have long been allies. Welch backed Crist in his most recent bid for Governor and past bids for Congress, and Crist supported Welch as a County Commissioner and then, a little over four years ago, in his first run for Mayor. Now it looks like the two will go from allies to opponents, and that should come as a surprise to no one, especially Welch’s successor on the Pinellas County Commission, Rene Flowers. Yet she was …