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today on BayNews Jerri with interviews with Schiavo's financial officer candidates feeding continues on 5B tube.5B BY AARON SHAROCKMAN Times Staff Writer State Sen. Walter "Skip" Campbell, the Democrat running for attorney general, voted twice to re-insert the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo and nearly cried on the floor of the state Senate when he realized she ultimately could not be saved. Yet now, 19 months after Schi- Sen. Walter Skip' Campbell avo's death, Campbell has positioned himself as the candidate who rigorously opposed the unpopular state intervention. At campaign events across the state, Campbell has consistently decried Gov.

Jeb Bush's involvement in the politically tinged court battle. He also at times has misrepresented his own voting record, X-i-jAlfftii "There's just a more open-minded feel to worship God how you want' James Stephany, commenting on High Definition church's services mmmvi ww jl f' 1 "I'-Wi jpm I 1 LJ fir' y'U Id -W Ov HOWARD TROXLER htroxlersptiines.com Oh, and he kicks helpless puppies Charlie Justice, 38, is a mild-mannered Democrat from St. Petersburg. His job is to advise college students. But according to the stack of campaign brochures sitting on my desk, he is a bad man.

Justice is a member of the state House. He is running for the state Senate in District 16, which lies on both sides of Tampa Bay. His Republican opponent is Kim Berfield, another state representative. Here's the first mail piece. Its cover is a big radar picture of a hurricane hitting Florida.

The headline says, in big letters, "LIBERAL CHARLIE JUSTICE has an insurance scheme for you." The next brochure has two poor barefoot girls on the cover. This headline says, "Charlie Justice turned his back on us." The inside says Justice won't help sick kids. The next shows two children holding hands and wearing backpacks. The headline: 'Are your children safe at (Hint: No, and it's all Justice's fault) The next one: "Charlie Justice is putting our children in harm's And the next: "Material Not Suitable For Children." That one says Justice won't protect kids from computer pom. A second piece about porn has a picture of a kid sitting in front of a computer covering his eyes.

"What is Charlie Justice allowing your children to view?" it asks. The next is a sad-looking little girl sitting on a stack of books. "Going back to school is never so taxing," the headline says. Inside, it says Justice "taxes you coming and going." -By the way, one of Berfield's TV commercials criticizes Justice for running a negative campaign against her. Lefs check out the return addresses.

"People for a Better Florida Fund Inc." Thaf a group largely funded by the medical and hospital industry. There's also the Republican Party of Florida, and a group called "All Children Matter." I looked up All Children Matter. The Florida branch is headed by John Kirtiey of Tampa, a leader in the school voucher movement That group has gotten more than $600,000 this year from All Children Matter-VA. The biggest contribution to that group, in turn, was a bequest of just over $2-million from the estate of John Walton of Ben-tonville, son of Sam, killed in a plane crash in 2005. I suppose it doesn't matter that Justice has indeed supported filters on computers, money for sick and poor kids, background checks for school employees and sales tax breaks for parents.

Just because he KEN HELLE Times Relevant Church youth minister Brent Gordon, left, and Stephen Lee, 14, watch as, from lower left, Christian Taormina ,14, Samantha Cox, 12 Caleb Covin, 12, and Jayme Weston, 11, play a video game during youth services at Gameworks in Ybor City. using the Schiavo issue at newspaper editorial board interviews and television appearances to draw a distinction with Republican candidate Bill McCollum. In a BayNews 9 Political Connections interview airing today, Campbell says he was not a sponsor of the original 2003 Schiavo legislation; records show he did co-sponsor the bill. And in the DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD I Times Springman, Tracy Springman and P.J.

prayer during Largo's First Baptist Church Beach's High Definition service. the written word bookworms meet authors. described bookaholic, was one of them. Her mother began taking her to the library as a toddler. Today, she has books lining every room of her house.

"I collect books like a disease," Agnew said. "I have to have something going at all times. My husband says I won't live long enough to read them all." She came to the festival to meet Arianna Huffington, a political commentator and liberal blogger, who recently wrote On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work, and Life. Years ago, Agnew read one of Huffing-ton's older books, called Maria CaUas: The READING continues on 4B 'Y v'J same he did Schiavo ciary fact he "You said in airs at 9, along chief CAMPBELL A cool tweak to tradition Live music, later hours and chill settings are guiding a "missing generation" back to church. Petersburg timet poll Grading Jeb Bush What would be the final grade you would give Gov.

Jeb Bush for his full tenure? 10 NOTE: Margin of error for statewide results is -3 .5 percentage points Source: Schroth, Eldon Associates and. Polling Co. C. GARY Times Most voters polled give the outgoing governor an A or B. BY JONI JAMES Times Staff Writer His older brother's approval ratings may be abysmal, but a new poll shows Florida Gov.

Jeb Bush likely will leave office in January as popular as ever. In the St Petersburg Times poll, voters were asked to rate the two-term Republican governor's performance by assigning a letter grade. Fifty-six percent of likely Florida voters gave him anAorB. Another 23 percent gave him an average or grade, and 10 percent a D. Only 7 percent failed him by assigning an F.

"Florida really is the tale of two Bushes," said pollster Kelly-anrie Conway. Voters have "high, deep gratitude and praise for Jeb Bush." The results come from a statewide telephone survey of 800 voters conducted Oct 22-25 for the Times by Conway's Republican firm, the Polling Company, and a Democratic Jeb Bush's popularity has tracked higher than his brother's. firm, Schroth Eldon Associates. The margin of error is 3.5 percentage points. Hialeah Republican Gloria Evans, 73, awards the governor an "I think he's sincere.

He has integrity. Anything he's done has been for the good of Florida" For years, Jeb Bush's approval ratings have tracked higher than those of the president, particularly in 2005 when his steadfast response to two years of eight hurricanes was in sharp contrast with Washington's response to Hurricane Katrina. But the new poll shows the governor remains popular among Republicans and independents, both genders, all age groups, and whites and Hispan-ics, even as his most prominent policy position reliance on the standardized Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test to give letter grades to public schools continues to lose favor across all voter groups. It's the reason independent voter Jeff erey Kelley, 55, a disabled engineer in Seffher, gives the governor a D. His wife is a teacher.

"I see what she goes through," GRADE continues on 4B Don't know 21 refused: 3 Bush's grades stay up 4. f- 20- and 30-somethings who shun traditional Christian worship services because they feel they lack cultural relevance. His year-and-a-half-old church mirrors a national trend. Sensing that young adults are more comfortable in bars and coffee houses than in traditional sanctuaries, alternative churches and ministries with nontraditional worship styles have cropped up with increasing speed in the last decade, scholars said. In the last two years in particular, the religious media have taken note of the growing movement, called emerging churches.

And in their own way, mainline churches are jumping on board too, in some cases sponsoring the "U2charist," a worship service that features U2's music "These churches are popping CHURCH continues on SB BY SHERRI DAY Times Staff Writer On Sundays, the Italian Club in Ybor City becomes a haven for the young and hip. Blackout curtains cover the windows. Video screens project movie clips. And chairs fill with members of the MTV generation sporting -multihued hairdos, hip huggers and tank tops. On stage, a rock band jams, covering songs from Coldplay and the All-American Rejects.

Before long, a man clad in jeans and a T-shirt takes the stage. He cradles a Bible and a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte. His sermon lasts 27 minutes about the time of the average sitcom. This is cool church. Paul Wirth, lead pastor at Relevant Church in Ybor City, hopes to reach what some religious scholars term as the "missing generation," if; 9 From right, D.J.

Acceturo join in of Indian Rocks Bonding beyond The Festival of Reading lets didn't like specific Republican versions of those things that contained other bad ideas, or voted against an overall state budget that he didn't like, it does not make him an enemy of the people. Democratic candidates and their shadow groups do it too. Don't believe Democratic attacks either. The local one I liked the least this year was when Phyllis Busansky, running for Congress against Gus Bilirakis in the 9th District, took a Bilirakis quote out of context to try to make it look like he was indifferent to the Mark Foley sex scandal Neither is this an endorsement of Justice. If you like Berfield better or Justice less, then vote for her.

Check out her mostly positive Web site at www.berfield2006.com, and Justice's at www. charliejustice.com. But this cynical, sneering, dishonest style of politics is killing our democracy. Why do political professionals do it? Here's the worst part: Because it usually works. SL BY MELANIE AVE Times Staff Writer ST.

PETERSBURG Seldom does the reader meet the writer. No, theirs is an impersonal relationship, where two people connect only through black words on bound white pages. They laugh, cry and learn together without ever speaking. That changed Saturday. The setting was the 14th annual St Petersburg Times Festival of Reading, where hundreds of bookworms turned out to hear their favorite authors and to snag bargain-priced paperbacks.

Jill Agnew, a Gulfport artist and self- SLOBODAN JURIC I Times tbt Artist Jill Agnew, left, had the chance to meet political commentator and author Arianna Hufflngton at the Festival of Reading Saturday. 1.