In the span of an hour, the senator in a dark suit and striped blue tie hustled to and from his corner office in the Capitol, pausing an interview a few times as he met with constituents, appeared on the Senate floor, huddled with lobbyists, answered texts and screened calls.
He nodded through floor calendar updates from staffers, shared personal stories with the men who stopped by to say hello to their old acquaintance, and told jokes — followed by his own scraped-gravel laugh.
Call him Butch, Gainesville’s busy man.
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