VIDEO: Crist: ‘I have very much enjoyed being a member of the Republican Party’
by Michael C. Bender | April 24th, 2010Here’s our story about the loyalty oath. And another from earlier this week about Republicans beating Crist to the punch.
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April 24th, 2010 at 11:54 am
I worked along side this mental midget in Tallahassee. Though I once supported him, I was shocked, disappointed and eventually angry at what is his lack of curiosity toward anything related to policy. There are no issues that burn hot for Charlie Crist. He will jump on issues that seem to have broad appeal, but will not even learn enough about them to parrot the right words to explain them. Crist’s only response, when cornered, “I’m for the people. Whatever the people say. I listen to the people.” While those are admirable goals, and should be the basis for approach from all elected officials, they cannot be the only thoughts one has.
Leadership involves two things: understand what the people want (in this case, better educated boys and girls), and make good, sometimes tough, decisions about how to get to the best resolution. He has NO IDEA how to do step two and he’s useless because of it. This whole education issue was the hardest to watch. Desperate adults, fearing an end to guarantees for life, could only look at Crist because he stopped something they wanted stopped. What happened to the real goal of better educated boys and girls? How soon they forget. It’s only about them — mediocre burnout teachers. Short view of life. What will you do for me today? With no regard for the consequences of action or inaction.
From my vantage point, that mentality is what has gotten our country into the mess we are in. We want, what we want, when we want it. How’s that working for us? Not so well. The teacher’s union is just like the police union and is just like the auto worker’s union. Just so happens that today, for this short time, teachers still have that shine on them. Wait for the shine to come off. But in the meantime, our kids fall further and further behind. Shame on the adults who are sitting back and letting this happen.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
“I have very much enjoyed being a member of the Republican Party, I Think.” But in the interest of Education I find it necessary to throw
the entire RPOF under the bus. You see, the reason is things are getting just a little too hot over there. Folks are coming into the RPOF offices and pulling Amex records and looking a expenditures and other things that were being done over there. At this time I feel its in the best interest of the people for me to move away from any culture of corruption that I have previously been involved with. Likewise I suggest Bill McCollum do the same thing. I mean, we just can’t afford to be associated with people like this. It is not in the best interest of the people of Florida, whom I serve.