Prosecutor Bondi leaves the courthouse and takes a hard right

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MIAMI LAKES — Pam Bondi stands at a podium, looking and sounding a lot like the prosecutor she was for more than 18 years.

She's making a case, but not like any she has made in court.

"Washington has run roughshod over our jobs, our health care and our welfare," she tells a group of fellow Republicans gathered for lunch at a steak house. "Obama and Pelosi are out of control."

This is not the Bondi who put away murderers, or the woman who made headlines with her personal legal fight over a Hurricane Katrina rescue dog.

The Tampa native surprised friends, colleagues and even herself in December by declaring that she wanted to be Florida's next attorney general. She quit her $107,000-a-year job as a senior litigator and spokeswoman for the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office to enter the combat sport of politics.

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