Category Charlie Crist
Will Charlie Crist find his voice and help Florida Democrats find one as well?
Former Governor Charlie Crist’s ride as the presumptive Democratic nominee began smoothly with a seeming coronation and a few months of “Charlie-mania” among Democrats but has now descended into a less than secure place. Certainly Crist will be the Democratic nominee for Governor barring a “summer surprise” of catastrophic proportions, but it has become obvious […]
Flashback Friday – When Racial Terror Struck Florida and how Charlie Crist Played Hero
Attorney General Crist in 2005 discussing the case One of the darkest episodes in Florida’s history, the murder of NAACP leader Harry T. Moore. In 1951 when Moore was murdered in Mims, local Democrats in Lake, Orange and Brevard County were not only segregationists but were sympathetic to hoodlums in the Ku Klux Klan. Even […]
Friday Quick Hits – New Scott Ad a postive change, Indian Elections, Sexism in news rooms and Ukraine
After weeks of bashing presumptive Democratic nominee Charlie Crist on various charges, the Let’s Get to Work Committee has actually released a positive ad entitled Grandpa. It’s a change in tact from a committee that has failed to raise Crist’s negative substantially enough to change the shape of the race, while the Governor’s negative numbers […]
NSF: Crist fundraising efforts remain competitive while Rich flounders
Below is News Service of Florida coverage of the April financial reporting numbers released yesterday. Charlie continues to raise the kind of money necessary to propel a proper statewide campaign while Sen. Nan Rich — though she also enjoys the support of the opaque outside group Progressive Choice — would have a hard time pecuniarily in many […]
Is it the time to lift the Cuba embargo? For Florida yes, for the USA no…Timing at issue
I have been a longstanding opponent of the US embargo against Cuba. It has been in place since the early 1960s and while it has perhaps at times slowed Cuba’s economy it has done little if anything to force regime change or to modify the behavior of the Castro regime on the global stage. For […]
Charlie Crist in Cuba: an idea whose time has come?
Only an American President with the anti-Communist bona fides of a Nixon could have gone to China, the old saw goes — is it possible that it takes a Charlie Crist to visit Cuba? It just might. Though it wasn’t so long ago Charlie criticized Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jim Davis for taking a fact-finding mission while […]
August 2009 letter from Governor Crist to Republican leaders
As the debate continues about what motivated Governor Crist’s switch of parties, I stumbled upon this letter in my files from August 20th 2009. This was seven months after President Obama was sworn in as President and several months after the infamous hug which would haunt Crist among Republican activists going forward. Recall at the […]
Charlie Crist, racial issues and Civil Rights – The record in depth
Elements of the media seem to want to have a pop at Charlie Crist for his claims on Jorge Ramos’ program earlier this week that he left the GOP over racism. While even the most ardent Crist supporter must admit that his claims of flipping party due to the Republicans views on race is ridiculous, […]
Charlie Crist on leaving the GOP and race
Charlie Crist was in Fusion TV’s Miami studios to discuss his party switch with Jorge Ramos. Interesting stuff.
Latest Let’s Get to Work TV ad turning heads
The latest anti-Charlie Crist TV commercial from the “Let’s Get to Work” Committee is the hardest hitting yet and has conjured up a significant amount of buzz around the state since it began running last week. The premise is that then Governor Charlie Crist “ran away” from the problems the state faced in 2008, 2009 […]
The Florida Squeeze 