Category Charlie Crist
Nan Rich turns Crist-Bush Faux pas into fundraising opportunity
Smart move by Nan Rich to use former Governor Buddy MacKay who lost the 1998 Gubernatorial race to Jeb Bush in this fundraising appeal. The Bush years were largely an ideological crusade to undo the positive work MacKay and his political partner Lawton Chiles had done for Florida’s families, schools and our environment. MacKay is the […]
Charlie Crist NAILS the Cuban embargo issue
Regardless of your views of the Castro regime and economic sanctions in general it takes a brave person to actually claim the Cuban embargo enacted in 1961 unilaterally by the United States has been successful. All it has served to do is allow the Castro brothers to use the United States as the bogeyman in […]
Charlie Crist DEAD WRONG on Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush left the Governor’s office over six years ago, yet his influence continues to permeate our state. This past weekend, Charlie Crist the Democratic front runner for Governor made a ridiculous statement for the ages. “Yeah, I think he (Bush) probably would (make a good president). He made a great governor, in my humble […]
Charlie Crist shows real courage on Cuba sanctions stand
On Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, Governor Charlie Crist shockingly stated he’d like the Cuban Embargo lifted. This is a contradiction of Crist’s longstanding view on the issue from when he was a member of the Republican Party, but a welcome change. Let me state first off I oppose economic sanctions and embargoes […]
Republican Party fueled Rothstein-Crist analysis largely off the mark
Florida’s papers and political press have had a field day in the last week buying into a Republican Party fueled narrative about the “close ties” between Scott Rothstein based largely on the court testimony of the convicted fraudster and ponzi-schemer this week. It appears to many a neutral observer that Rothstein’s shots at Crist could […]
Former Governor Buddy MacKay Endorses Nan Rich
Just last week Buddy MacKay was one the subjects of our Thursday Bookshelf column describing his courageous fights with reactionary elements in our state. MacKay who was one of the most thoughtful and forward-thinking Florida officeholders from the 1970s to the 1990s today endorsed Nan Rich for Governor of Florida. While I am somewhat surprised […]
Trotter’s Take: Party/Ideology support starting to solidify in governors race. Good news for Crist.
With the race for Florida’s governor little over ten months away, poll numbers regarding the race is going to start being a regular occurrence. As predicted, the gap between former Gov. Charlie Crist in current Gov. Rick Scott has lessened. But even though this is the case, Crist still leads in all the polls of […]
Rick Scott’s Florida: Examples of why #ItsNotWorking, with Commentary
We here at the Florida Squeeze have long planned on doing a series regarding Rick Scott’s unfulfilled job promises and misleading job claims in early 2014. A simple narrative had developed that Governor Scott has put Floridians to work after Governor Crist cost the state jobs. This, however, is a simplistic way of looking at […]
Charlie Crist and “Obamacare”
Draw your own conclusions from this. 2013 Let’s Get to Work Ad: 2009:
Trotter’s Take: Rick Scott solidifies base, Crist falters in latest PPP poll.
If there is one message we can take away from the latest Public Policy Poll, it is that the phenomenon known as Charlie-mania is now over. Even though Charlie Crist had a 12-point lead in May 2013, the race between the former governor and the current governor, Rick Scott, is now neck and neck. This […]
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