Tag: Charlie Crist
Captured on Video: Why Rich Tea Partiers Make Such Bad Elected Officials
If this video — from a FOX affiliate! — doesn’t explain why Florida Democrats and independents are willing to embrace the previous flip-floppin’ governor (Charlie Crist) to get rid of the current one, nothing will.
Warning: Rick Scott’s countenance will haunt your sleep.
Charlie Crist Has the ‘Intellectual Horsepower of Yogurt’
He has all the intellectual horsepower of yogurt. But I admire his political skills. If Rick Scott could work a room like Charlie Crist, he’d be up by 25 points.
— GOP strategist Rick Wilson, quoted by the Washington Post, on former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (D).
Crist Holds Lead Over Scott in Florida Governor Race
46% to 38%
Margin by which Charlie Crist (D) is leading Gov. Rick Scott (R) in the governor’s race, according to a new Quinnipiac poll in Florida. Pollster Peter Brown: “The best number in this poll for Crist — and the biggest problem for Scott — is that a majority of Florida voters say the current governor does not deserve a second term in Tallahassee. Voters also give Crist a higher job approval for when he ran the state than any approval rating Scott has received in his three years on the job.”
Florida Governor’s Race Looks Tight
43% to 41%
The spread, respectively, of the gubernatorial race between Charlie Crist (D) and Gov. Rick Scott (R), a new Public Policy Polling survey in Florida shows.
No More PDAs!
A bro-hug put an end to Charlie Crist’s Senate ambitions
And a post-Sandy clinch might cost Chris Christie the nomination.
Be that as it may,
Obama outdid himself today.
Shaking hands with a Castro — now THAT’s an abomination!
3 Things to Know About Florida Politics Now
- Former Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist is running for governor in 2014 as a Democrat. The official announcement was made in Crist’s hometown of St. Petersburg, and puts an end, not to speculation that Crist would run, but to when the campaign would begin. It’s on.
- Alex Sink (D), former state chief financial officer, who lost to Gov. Rick Scott (GOP/Tea) in 2010 by 1% in a campaign where Scott provided $75 million of his own money, announced she is running for Congress to fill the seat of U.S. Rep. Bill Young (R), who died in October. Sink claims a fundraising headstart, and if successful, will help chip away at the Republican majority in the House. Dist. 13, where Sink is running, is 37.7% Republican, 35.2% Democratic, 23.2% independent, and the rest “other.”
- Republicans are already gunning for both Crist and Sink. This promoted tweet from the Florida GOP went up as Crist was delivering his announcement:
