Two Politicians (Charlie Crist draws Rubio blood)

[seafan]

Run time: 00:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTmpGfGiDTw   Posted on YouTube: April 12, 2010 By YouTube Member: CharlieCristFL Views on YouTube: 5375   Posted on DU: April 17, 2010 By DU Member: seafan Views on DU: 435

 
Now, some prominent Florida Republicans and panicked Rubio supporters are screaming bloody murder about Crist's latest campaign video. It's hard-hitting and strikes Rubio close to home. No wonder the tea party radicals supporting Rubio are apoplectic. Jeb must have some ripping heartburn after this week.


Let the whining continue...




Fla GOP leaders call on Crist to halt negative attacks


By Adam C. Smith
Tampa Bay's The Buzz
April 16, 2010

Dear Governor Crist,

We have all been supporters of yours in the past and have been there for you virtually every step of the way as you climbed the political ladder. Despite our past support, we cannot stand idly by and say nothing while you wage a multi-million dollar campaign in an attempt to smear and assassinate the character of a fellow Republican.

Quite simply, we call on you to stop airing the attack ad (titled “Two Politicians”) you are currently running against Marco Rubio. This ad is blatantly false and misleading. Your campaign knows it and we know that you know it too.

The clear intent of this ad is to try to link Marco Rubio to Ray Sansom. However, State Prosecutor Willie Meggs said recently that Rubio “didn’t have anything to do with” Sansom’s legal issues. In fact, Mr. Meggs said he plans to call you as a witness to testify about documents indicating that your office was aware of what Mr. Sansom was doing, despite your previous denials. Taken as a whole, these facts prove that your attack ad is as false as it is hypocritical.

The Charlie Crist we have supported so many times in the past would never run such a blatantly dishonest ad against a fellow Republican. It is sad to say but the Charlie Crist of today – negative, desperate, and flirting with the idea of abandoning his party – is one we hardly recognize. For the sake of our party and our state, we ask you please to take your ad off the air and focus your campaign on issues and policy.

Sincerely,

Al Hoffman, Jr., former Ambassador to Portugal

U.S. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite

U.S. Representative Jeff Miller

Tom Slade, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida

Tony DiMatteo, Pinellas County RPOF Board Member

Former Florida Senate President Tom Lee

State Representative David Rivera

State Representative Steve Bovo

Pasco state Committeeman Bill Bunting


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UPDATE: Here's the Crist campaign response: Our ad (you can view it HERE) is based on fact. Just because Speaker Rubio wishes something not to be true, it doesn’t mean it isn’t. It is clear this letter is a direct request from Miami lobbyist-politician Rubio, and, coming from someone who double billed taxpayers and didn’t own up until caught, failed to file legally required IRS forms and didn’t take responsibility until caught, failed to disclose a sweetheart loan and didn’t come clean until caught, and is still on the hook for missing funds from his political committee used as a personal slush fund, are you going to take his word for it? How are those tax returns coming, Marco?

Whoa, Rubio. Just a damn minute:


Marco Rubio downplays relationship with Florida International University, Miami Herald, December 14, 2009





Discussed in detail in this thread:


(From a few of my comments at the time...)

In addition to disgraced Ray Sansom, who "funneled millions to a college where he later took a $110,000 part-time job", there is another high-ranking former Florida Republican legislator who used his position to steer millions to a local university in his home town, and was then offered and accepted a $69,000 part-time job at the university upon exiting the Legislature.

This particular ex-legislator just had his university contract renewed for a second year.

It is former House Speaker Marco Rubio.

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Maybe Rubio's highly uncomfortable proximity and similarities with Ray Sansom's criminal case were the reasons that Florida's Republican-dominated House Select Committee on Standards of Official Conduct took just three and a half minutes last Monday (Feb 22) to drop the ethics investigation on Ray Sansom, who served as Rubio's former hand-picked budget chief.

Rubio, was on the hot seat to testify in Sansom's ethics hearings to be held by this Committee, but miraculously for Rubio, Sansom resigned from the Florida House this past Sunday, and the very next day, this Committee abruptly ended the entire House investigation on Sansom.


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My, my, it seems like Jeb's young apprentice is lacking in the ethics and honesty department.


What else will we discover about Rubio's shady dealings? He must have learned quite a few from the knee of his mentor, Jeb Bush.


Stay tuned....

[tabatha]

1. Good for Crist.

[lib2DaBone]

2. Good for Gov Crist for standing up to Jeb Bush and Rubio....

...It may cost him the Senate election. Crist has kicked the Repuke hornet's nest.

Marco Rubio is a young henchman being groomed to take over the Neocon reins, while the Jebster calls in the plays from the sidelines.

Jeb Bush could run for POTUS in 2012, however, the stench of George W. hasn't worn off yet.

[Ramulux]

3. Props

Glad that Crist isn't going down without a fight, the more he tarnishes Rubio's image the better position the dems will be in come November.