Archive: In the States

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.

The “11th Command- ment” was coined it in 1966 during Ronald Reagan’s gubernatorial campaign: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” Man, people in that party have broken that commandment more times than the ones about adultery, covetousness and stealing combined.

You’d think from the way party boss Jim “Big Jim” Greer talks, this here is like the first-ever electronical seasons’ greeting card. I suppose nobody sends Republicans Blue Mountain greeting cards, eh?

The Republican Party of Florida has a penchant for issuing “press releases” on wacky topics. At the drop of a hat, they’ll issue a release that just quotes wholesale from some media report that pertains to something that they automatically assume their readers will understand. These guys are so deep “inside” that the only context they have is the RPOF.

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.

According to a new Quinnipiac poll released today, Fllorida Gov. Charlie Crist’s lead over former state house speaker Marco Rubio in the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate primary has been cut from 55 to 26 percent to 50 to 35 percent.

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.