Should the Florida Republican Party release its credit card statements?
by Michael C. Bender | February 8th, 2010Should a new RPOF chairman release the party's credit card statements?
- Yes (83%, 79 Votes)
- No (17%, 16 Votes)
Total Voters: 95
Loading ...Republican gubernatorial candidate Paula Dockery is beating the drum for the incoming Republican Party of Florida chairman to release all its credit card statements and put an end to the “drip, drip, drip” of embarrassing news stories that has hampered fund-raising in recent months. From her letter today to Sharon Day and John Thrasher, RPOF chairmen candidates:
You are campaigning to lead our party back to its conservative ways. One of you will be tasked with ending this public-relations nightmare, a distraction that is getting in the way of electing Republicans statewide.
And so, on behalf of common-sense conservatives, let me ask this: can we count on you to follow best practices and come clean about the extent of the spending problem?
It’s not exactly clear how many credit cards soon-to-be-former Chairman Jim Greer passed out. We know former House Speaker Ray Sansom had one (it’s part of the lawsuit in which he’s accused of falsfying the state budget). And we know that former RPOF Director Delmar Johnson had one (it was leaked to the press last week).
We also know that Senate President Jeff Atwater and House Speaker Marco Rubio each had one while directing the campaigns within their respective chamber. Both say they’ll release their statements if everyone else does, too.
Today, Atwater said he would support a new chairman disclosing the statements.
“For us as a party, it’s far more important rather than we debate it every day on who’s got a story or a column on it … that people who know that they’re making a contribution to the party know that there are disciplines in place and processes that they can trust.
“And clearly, at the moment, there would be a lot of doubts about that.”
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February 8th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
This dog and pony show with hid the amex card statements has been going on way to long. No matter who donated the funds to the RPOF the stated purpose was electing Republicans to office. Not party hardy until the RPOF is bankrupt. The real problem is decent honest contributors are not going to give money when they know the culture of corruption of Crist and cronies will only blow it. It is time for all of them to come clean and lets start over. It is the only way we can elect honest Conservative Republicans and save this country.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
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February 9th, 2010 at 3:29 am
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February 9th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Dockery is right!! McCollum is RINO!