Archive: Florida

I, for one, will miss Big Jim. I have used this space on several occasions to point out Greer’s idiotic quote-bedecked ramblings that masqueraded as press releases. To me, Jim Greer is the embodiment of the fat-cat Florida Republican — dangerous as a crocodile, loyal as a hound dog, stubborn as a mule and mean as a rattlesnake.

Hands Across the Sand will bring together people on Florida’s Gulf coast, and possibly the entire shoreline, to join hands in one long line of resistance to efforts by the state’s Republican legislators to sell out the state to oil interests. Literally.

How disgusted are Floridians with Gov. Charlie Crist? So disgusted they’d be willing to have Jeb Bush back in Tallahassee.

We told you that Florida’s Gov. Charlie Crist (R) wasn’t planning to hobnob with the president when he came to Florida this week. But even we are astounded at Charlie’s excuse for not welcoming the president to his state.

When the nation’s largest solar electric generating plant goes online outside a small, sun-baked Florida town this week you’d expect Gov. Charlie Crist, who would push your paraplegic mother out of the way if she were blocking his photo op, to be there smiling for the cameras and taking credit for Florida’s accomplishment. You’d be wrong.

The man most of you know as the guy who went on the Stephen Colbert Report and completed the sentences, “I like cocaine because…” and “I like prostitutes because…” is resigning. Sources say the fire-breathing liberal himself, Rep. Robert Wexler (D – South Florida), will resign Wednesday morning.

One name was conspicuously absent from a recent list of Florida’s political influencers: the governor himself, Charlie Crist. His Republican challenger in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, however, is on it. Whoops.

NRA Lobbyist Marion Hammer on the Florida scrub jay: ‘Begging for food isn’t sweet, it’s lazy and it’s a welfare mentality.’

How clueless is Republican Party of Florida Chair Joe Greer? How about in his list of folks he honors on the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center he leaves out the more than 3,000 who died that day.

Fla. GOP chair Jim Greer, the pusher of the lie about Obama, is known locally for saying things like this when he addresses school children: “Republicans get up and go to work. Democrats get up and go down to the mailbox to get their checks.”