Rothstein gave $200k to GOP governors
by Michael C. Bender | November 17th, 2009
Charlie Crist with Kim and Scott Rothstein at the Versace Mansion in Miami Beach in 2008. Page2Live.comEmbattled attorney Scott Rothstein gave $200,000 to the Republican Governor’s Association just days after the group’s 2008 meeting in Miami, according to a report this morning from TalkingPointsMemo.com.
Gov. Charlie Crist hosted the conference, where he was hailed as one of the party’s rising stars. In 2006, the RGA, led by then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, donated $1 million to Crist’s gubernatorial campaign.
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November 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Why is the guy on the left orange?
November 17th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
And pray tell, just how much more of Crist’s corruption connections are going to surface and soon I hope. Does Crist have any honest friends? I mean Mori Hosseini, Harry Sargent, Dr. Steven Scott, Alan Mendehlson, Jim Greer, Ray Sansom, Ken Pruitt, don’t seem to qualify in the honest category.
Would someone with the political clout to do so please stand up and demand a Federal investigation into the corruption in the Florida Governor’s office and Florida politics in general.
Just two weeks ago Charlie Crist said he barely knew this man, just like he didn’t support the federal stimilus and didn’t know Obama was touring Florida. This man has never though of a lie he wouldn’t tell. Federal Investigation Please!
November 17th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
If that Rothstein guy is dressed up as a pimp, what does that make Crist? A gay priest? A gay prostitute?
November 17th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I guess the biggest crime is not rothstein-it’s crist in a turtleneck…
November 17th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Earlier this month I posted a blog about Jim Greer, Ray Sansom and how one (or both) of these men are lying to our State Senator, Don Gaetz. Go here for the Post: (http://www.bloggybayou.com/2009/11/did-sansom-offer-to-repay-rpof-for.html)
On 5 November, the Hillsborough County Republican Party nailed Mr. Greer and his, for lack of a better word, henchman, Rich Heffley, for going into the black bag business of dirty political tricks. In a display of sheer ineptitude, both men got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Here is a link to the Hillsborough County GOP complaint. (http://www.box.net/shared/demrsuivkz)
The only thing worse than being sleaze bags is being incompetent sleaze bags.
Congratulations Mr. Greer on single handily launching a revolt in the Florida GOP (I am assuming that Governor Crist had no knowledge of this, but only a full an open investigation into all RPOF financial and and electronic communications can we really be sure)
On 16 November, 2009, The Okaloosa County Republican Executive Committee, in a overwhelming vote, formally asked that at the next quarterly meeting of the RPOF that Mr Greer be given a vote of “No Confidence” and that he formally resign his post as Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida.
I strongly suspect that other counties are going to soon follow suit. Enough is Enough. I have been attending Tea Parties in our area and they point to the morass and air of corruption that Mr. Greer has fostered. They also point to the embrace of “Porkulus” by Gov. Crist and then his comical attempts to backtrack on his endorsement of it, despite numerous documents and YouTube videos of him backing same said Porkulus fiasco.
In Okaloosa County, I have made it clear to the Tea Party leaders that if they want to keep Mr. Crist from going to the Senate, that they HAVE to register Republican so they can vote against him in the Primary. I have made no secret of my desire to see Marco Rubio elected and I have pushed him to the local Tea Party Patriots as a man they can trust. I hope I made a good enough arguement to get them to urge fellow Tea Party members to register Republican in order to stop Crist and vote Rubio. Time will tell and I WILL NOT stop trying.
We, the Grassroots Republicans, can also garner Tea Party Patriot votes (and respect) by showing to them we mean business when it comes to cleaning up our own mess. If Jim Greer had any sense of decency, he would call an emergency meeting of the RPOF County Chairs and State Committee men and women tomorrow, resign and allow the County Chairmen and State Party reps find someone who can restore trust to the RPOF.
I state again to my Senator, Don Gaetz. You have been lied to by either Ray Sansom or Jim Greer or, as I strongly suspect, both. In addition, Jim Greer has been caught doing a very poor imitation of Dick Nixon. Talk to the Hillsborough GOP chair if you don’t believe me.
It is time to man up Senator. Either you are with us or against on this. It is a black or white decision..there is no gray area here. I and all Grassroot Republicans expect action and Tea Party members are watching to see if they can ever again put their trust in the Republican party.
Jim Greer’s resignation or firing is the first step back for Republicans to show we can be trusted to do the right thing.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
Nice post Charlie Tuna. This Crist campaing will fall once the details of Crists dealings wiht dono developer Mosir Hosseini see the light of day in a grand jury. Giving 2.5 million of Florida Forever Funds to a developer donor to “nuy back ” development rights that he personally granted months earlier is unofrgiveable. I am sure some ethics comitte will say ” no laws were broken”. A Federal Indictmet is highly likely under honest services, RICO and corruptions statutes.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I have to agree that Crist and his hinchman Greer is anything but honest and we need to do whatever is necessary to remove thm from the RPOF. However, this is not a forgone conclusion. They played dirty tricks, eliminating RPOF opposition during past elections using similar tactics. Crist has $6 to $8 million dollars to re-invent himself, lie about his actions and perform an extraordinary media blast the uninvolved Republican Primary voters and blind side the public. Efforts need to be taken now to bury him and his ilk with facts long before the ill informed get involved.