During his 57 years in Congress, longtime U.S. Sen. Carl Hayden, R-Ariz., often related what a colleague in the U.S. House told him after he gave his maiden speech. “If you want to get ahead here, you have to be a work horse and not a show horse,” a congressman told Hayden and the Arizona Republican took that advice to heart.
The same advice applies in Tallahassee and there’s no better example of it than Florida CFO Jeff Atwater. In the last five years, Atwater went from leading the state Senate to his current post and now is looking like a sure bet to run for the U.S. Senate in 2016 if U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., decides to run for president.