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Vice President Joe Biden is said to be close to deciding if he is running for President, and as Mike Vasilinda tells us, a Florida Democratic operative who once ran President Obama’s Florida campaigns has been an unofficial Biden booster and the go to guy for national TV news networks who want to talk about Biden.

As Joe Biden walked onto the stage at Florida State University in 2012, he stopped briefly to chat with the college students on the riser. It was the same folksiness a few years earlier that put Democratic operative Steve Schale in the Biden camp after he’d taken his nephew to a Biden rally.

“The Vice President walked in the room. He put my nephew into a headlock and gave him a nuggie on his head. I realized very quickly that he’s a real, very genuine guy. Not a lot of people like him” says Schale.

Schale, A Tallahassee resident, ran both of President Obama’s Florida campaigns. His involvement began in August with an off handed remark to a New York Times reporter.

“I was arguing with a New York Times reporter about whether he could put together a real campaign. That lead to them reporting that I was a guy who though he should run.”

Now Shale appears almost daily on national news casts, from CNN to Fox, pitching the Vice President

Without ever having talked to him about it.

“I’m actually looking forward to the first conversation I have with him. I imagine it’ll be pretty interesting.”

And while Schale tells us he hasn’t talked to the Vice President personally, he does tell us that when he’s sitting in this chair…he wonders if the VP or his wife are watching….and if they like what he’s saying or if they want to throw something at the TV.
Shale doesn’t know if there is a place for him in a Biden Campaign. And if there is no campaign, no one can blame Steve Schale for a lack of tenacity.

Schale originally promised his wife he would sit out this campaign cycle…now it appears someone else will be making that decision for him.