Republicans scrap unity rally after brutal primary season
by Michael C. Bender | August 24th, 2010It’s been a tough few months for Florida Republicans.
In the GOP gubernatorial primary, Rick Scott turned the scandals of his own party into a campaign issue. Bill McCollum won’t say if he’d support Scott as the party’s nominee.
So it shouldn’t be too surprising that the state party has abandoned plans for a unity event they were attempting to hold tomorrow in Tampa.
“We tossed around the idea for a couple unity events tomorrow, but it never came to fruition,” state party spokeswoman Katie Betta said. “It was too difficult to pull together not knowing what was going to happen tonight and where the candidates were going to be tomorrow.”
Betta stressed that it was a logistical issue and had nothing to do the potential of the bevy of state party leaders having to eat crow if their candidate, McCollum, loses to Scott tonight.
“Our responsibility is to elect Republican candidates,” Betta said. “We’ve opened our Victory offices and have the resources in place to help all of our candidates after the primary. At this point, Scott has chosen to not participate in that.
“But we hope to have a working relationship with whoever the nominee is,” she said.
Instead of a unity event tomorrow, the party will present its slate of statewide candidates at its fund-raising dinner in Sept. 10 in Orlando, where Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will be the keynote speaker
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August 24th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
After trashing each other as crooks the Party hacks wil become again the hypocrits they are.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Bill McCollum had no acheivements after 30 years at the public trough to brag about! As soon as Rick Scott announced he was running even though the RPOF had closed the primary to other candidates
McCollum began the lying and screaming about Rick! McCollum stood and screamed and screamed like the baby he is! Ric Keller beat this wimp in 2000 and Mel Martinez beat this wimp again in 2004! Rick Scott is going to beat this Jebbie trained corruption sucker again tonight! At 67 years old hopefully this will be the last time good honest people have to whip this freaking little crook for eternity!
August 24th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Picture Trasher and Scott smiling at unity gala. HA,HA,HA !!!!!
August 24th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
The RPOF Unity party location is being changed to Fed Eglin! Would McCollum, Charlie, Thrasher, Cannon, Haripoulas,
Jeb,Sansom, Please report to Fed Eglin promptly at noon tomorrow August 25, 2010! Thank You!
August 25th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Lord forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing??!!
and have mercy on their souls.
August 25th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
As a life long Republican, all I can say to the party is Rest in Peace. If you can’t take elections after the mess Pelosi, Reid and Obama are making, you’re out of business.