Top Florida Republicans Are Nastier And More Vindictive Than You Thought, Tell-All By Ex-State GOP

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Top Florida Republicans Are Nastier And More Vindictive Than You Thought, Tell-All By Ex-State GOP Chair Says


Florida Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio.
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Political tell-all books usually make big headlines because they expose the secret lives of famous people. The latest is a dark expose of Florida Republicans by Jim Greer, the ex-state GOP chair, who spent 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to illegally skimming party funds.

Peter Golenbock’s The Chairman: The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer pulls back the curtain on Florida Republicans’ inner circles and their shady dealings. Greer lambasts his former colleagues for trying to scuttle Charlie Crist when he was the Republican governor, and then accuses Crist of betraying him. (Today, Crist is again running for that office as a Democrat.)

Greer says U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is little better than an extortionist, taking fellow Republicans to strip clubs and taking photos to subsequently bribe them.

Is it true? Greer wants us to believe him, and recent Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) actions bolster his claims of skullduggery and high-flying Republicans.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Impossible. GOP are scum of the Earth. Actually, that gives scum a BAD NAME...

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Good find

Will see if I can download this evening. Thanks!

[Enthusiast]

3. What to know about the character of top Florida Republicans?

Read a Carl Hiaasen book. They're bad!

[Chasstev365]

4. But they oppose abortions!

(For anyone except their mistresses)

[Baitball Blogger]

5. The strip club trick is an old, old Central Florida ploy.

It worked best back when lap dances were legal. I use to work in an insurance company back in the eighties which had the classic division between men and female employees. All the men were on staff. Those of us who were women staff members, however, did notice a major difference in the bonding rituals that existed at the time. When the home office sent us cold fish codgers to check up on our regional office, the male managers would take them down and buy them lap dances. The next morning the women would be diligently working at their desks when the men would stumble out of the elevators, nursing hangovers. But there would be a difference that we didn't see before in the codgers. They were more relaxed among the other men and exchanged knowing glances as if the naughty things they did the night before at the strip clubs bonded them.

What a sleazy era. Alcohol and strip joints. I'm not surprised that that world still exists in politics.