One of the highlights of my career as insurance commissioner and treasurer has to be that cover photo on Florida Underwriter's December 2002 issue. This magazine depicted me clad in a suit of armor, holding a bodacious sword. "Gallagher's Crusade," they called it. The article talked about "my" fight to reform the workers' compensation system.
The story called me — well, it called me quite a few things, actually — "without a doubt…the most activist public official in state government," and said that I "thrived on conceiving sweeping reform plans and waging the quixotic battle."
Guilty.
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