Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio race to The Villages
by Michael C. Bender | March 30th, 2010
Gov. Charlie Crist says he’s scheduling a trip to The Villages (pictured right) as soon as possible after FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace indicated that Marco Rubio may have a problem brewing with some tea party folks there. “At The Villages, they’re not happy with you, sir,” Wallace told Rubio.
“It was a bit surprising to me,” Crist said about that moment in their debate. “Maybe the speaker has miscalculated again as it relates to the electorate.”
Sounds like the problem is Rubio hasn’t responded to some questionnaires, according to the Talking Points Memo.
But Rubio received the message. From the minutes of the Tri-County Tea Party (Villages) meeting on Monday:
[President Pam Dahl] asked for a show of hands from all who had written letters and emails to Fox, and many hands went up in the air. Pam said those letters and emails really were heard and she received a call from Fox News to find out what was going on, and Joe Angione had received a call, too. When Marco Rubio’s campaign manager heard about TCTP sends out messages to over 1,000 people and those communications go out to over 35,000 people, they said they would like to arrange to Marco Rubio to come to one of our meetings to address TCTP in person.
Rubio is already scheduled for a visit to The Villages, when he and U.S. House candidate Allen West are “special guests” April 13 on Sean Hannity’s book tour. (And speaking of tea parties, Rubio is headlining the April 15 Tax Day Tea Party at the 10,000-seat Sun Dome at University of South Florida.)
Tags: Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio, Tea Party movement, The Villages
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March 31st, 2010 at 6:41 am
I recall when some idiots on the left used to intone: “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Now it seems, the villagers in Florida are trying to insist on their special importance.
Well, good for them. And why not?
The important thing to remember is that Rubio has been welcomed at many tea parties aross Florida.
Funny that I can’t recall Shucking Chuckles attending even one.
March 31st, 2010 at 7:00 am
So you folks are controlled by the Morse Mafia also. You deleted my story about the IRS Villages investigation.
Delete all the stories you want. After all we are headed to communist control and you might as well get the practice. I don’t think Morse will be able to buy of the IRS. They need the money! Now delete this before too many see it!
March 31st, 2010 at 8:04 am
The Villages has one of the highest HIV rates in Florida. These are a bunch of promiscuous old people. They are tea baggers not tea partiers
March 31st, 2010 at 10:11 am
Thats cause we get all that free viagra from the Obamanation. It gives a new meaning to a hole in one!
March 31st, 2010 at 10:59 pm
We at the Villages Love Marco Rubio but he must meet with us and answer some questions first. Marco we are on your side but we want to know your on ours?