The Crooked Candidate 2010 list published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW, still includes Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio and Allen West, all four running for federal office in Florida.
Rick Scott may not be the darling of the state’s conservative establishment, but his victory in the Republican governor’s primary yesterday may be a boon to the beleaguered Republican Party of Florida.
The RPOF was officially neutral in the…
Jeff Greene wants to know: Will Kendrick Meek support whoever the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate is during the general election? The two are currently battling it out in the primary; the state and national Democratic parties have officially endorsed…
The Democratic National Committee announced that the Florida party will get $333,333, according to The Hill, as part of a national $50 million spending campaign. Florida and Ohio were singled out for significant funds because they are perennial…
The lawyer for former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer is vowing to put some of the state’s most prominent party officials on the stand in his client’s ongoing criminal case, and at least one of them says that’s…
The attorney for indicted former Florida Republican Party Chair Jim Greer told The Miami Herald/St. Pete Times that Greer kept Gov. Charlie Crist in the loop about starting his secret fundraising company Victory Strategies. Greer is charged with using…
+ The arrest of former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer bumped news of the gulf oil spill right off the front page. Efforts are under way to see how the charges might affect Greer’s compatriots, most notably Gov. Charlie…
Republican Party chairman Jim Greer’s precipitous decline started in earnest at the kitchen table of a 76-year-old retiree in Fort Myers, Fla., shortly after Christmas. Gary A. Lee was going through his mail around lunch time in late December 2009, when he came across a white business envelope addressed to him as a member of the state Republican Party’s audit committee. There was no return address.
What Lee found in that envelope led to the 47-year-old Greer’s arrest yesterday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on charges of organized fraud, money laundering and grand theft, and has forced party officials to scramble to find out who knew what when. Political futures may rest on the answers.
Via Central Florida Political Pulse:
Jim Greer, former head of the Republican Party of Florida, was arrested this morning, according to law enforcement officials. There was no immediate word on charges.
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