DAN GELBER Gets a Nickname and It's A Good One

My friend James Nelson Ramsey, the longtime DA for Anderson County (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) loved to give political figures cool nicknames.

I've already given a nickname to our Congressman JOHN LUIGI MICA earlier this year -- it's "tarball" and it's going to stick. MICA supports offshore oil drilling.

Today's nickname goes to State Senator DAN GELBER, who is running for Florida AG.

GELBER identifies himself as a prosecutor, the scion of prosecutors. True, he once prosecuted corruption and civil rights violations in South Florida.

But what has he done lately? No pro bono work. No work for injured victims suing tobacco companies or fraudfeasors. No work for small businesses victimized by predatory practices by large organizations. Nope. Nope. Nope.

DAN GELBER serves his corporate masters like a lackey, working on white collar criminal defense for rich and powerful special interests, whom he refuses to identify.

DAN GELBER was unable to identify a single pro bono case.

DAN GELBER's nickname is "GELDING," which Wikipedia defines as "castrated animal — in English, the term specifically refers to a castrated male horse or other equine such as a donkey or a mule. As a verb, it also refers to the castration procedure itself. The word comes from the Old Norse geldr ("barren").[1] Castration, and the elimination of hormonally driven behavior associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everyday working animal."

What a waste of a good education -- GELBER's apparently not helping anyone but the ruling classes in his law practice and hasn't since he returned to Florida in 1998.

GELBER is a gelding.

What do you reckon?