Political operative linked to Crist, Fla. GOP admits helping create anonymous anti-Rubio site

[csziggy]

Maybe the Florida Repubs will take each other out! It's our only chance.

TALLAHASSEE — An anonymous Web site aimed at embarrassing Republican Gov. Charlie Crist's political rival appears to have backfired after one of Crist's top political advisers admitted that he helped develop the site.

This latest twist in a suddenly sizzling primary race is at least the second time Rich Heffley, a powerful Republican political operative, has assisted a shadowy political group on behalf of Crist.

"This was me going off half-cocked and I'll never do it again," said Heffley, an influential Tallahassee lobbyist who has billed Florida Republicans nearly $6 million for campaign work in the past decade.

But the campaign for Republican Marco Rubio — a former state House speaker hoping to become the first Floridian in modern state politics to hand a primary defeat to a sitting governor - is questioning whether Heffley would have inserted himself into the U.S. Senate race without consent from Crist's campaign or the Republican Party of Florida.

More (with a good amount of background on this sleaze): http://www.news-press.com/article/20091030/NEWS0107/91030067/1075

[Sancho]

1. It's great to see to see the idiots attacking each other!

I hope that Crist and Rubio dig up ALL the dirt on each other!