Crist's inauguration donors

Among the first big donors to the Crist inauguration effort posted at www.charliecrist.com:

Trigeant Air in Boca Raton, $100,000; US Sugar, $50,000; The Geo Group private prison corporation, $50,000; Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate (old Tom Gallagher chums), $25,000; A Duda and Sons agribusiness and development, $25,000; bond counsel Bryant, Miller, Olive of Tallahassee, $10,000; Associated Builders & Contractors, $10,000.

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$100,000, Wetherington, McGreevey & Jordan LLC.

Not as big as I thought. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Didnt this guy raise 60 million to become Gov. Pretty weak. Maybe he has given up fundraising.

MARCUS MAKES APOLOGY

The man who approached PB County Commish Karen Marcus about her interest in becoming soon-to-be Gov. Charlie Crist's secretary of the Department of Community Affairs wasn't acting in an official capacity and isn't a part of the Crist transition team.

High-octane lobbyist and former DCA big Paul Bradshaw told Page Two on Thursday that he asked Marcus to consider it because he wanted to give the incoming administration "the greatest number of opportunities in selecting leaders."

"I'm an enthusiastic supporter of Charlie Crist, and I want to help," he said. "But when Karen said she wasn't interested, I never discussed her with the Crist folks."

Transition boss George Lemieux, however, heard Marcus had told friends and reporters about the call, and reportedly threw a fit after an ink-stained wretch at The Palm Beach Post inquired about a possible Marcus appointment.

"I did get a call from George during the commission meeting Tuesday," a sheepish Marcus said. "I apologized to him. But this whole thing was blown out of proportion. I'm hoping it won't put me in bad standing with the administration. I'm a Crist supporter."

Interesting, can a CCE, PC or ECO contribute to an Inaugural? Does that fall into the definition of supporting/opposing a candidate or issue?

Fools....all of them.

Corporate citizens? Maybe?

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Sally earns her keep.

Paul sucks.

SSG strikes again. Nice work boys!

Colodny, Karlinsky...Are you kidding me?

Their is not enough money on the planet for those goons to get back into good graces.

After ransacking Citizen's Insurance though, they surely have plenty to spend.

Too bad they don't publish a real list of what you get for each level of contributions.

500K
Unlimited access to Gov COS.
Choice of three agency heads.
10 Senate Bills, 10 house bills.
Review and approval of Gov budget.

100K
Weekly meetings with Gov COS.
Final review of Appropriations bill, just before conference committee.

etc.

FUNNY 8:52AM

But don't forget the most important:

For 500k Rubio will create a position and hire your kid in the House. He won't really have to work, of course, but starting pay of 100k and no experience is needed.

It is a bad sign that US Sugar is at the top of the list. Their only interest is to turn the everglades into
a sugarcane farm. The results of that
include dramatically worsening red tide
along the west coast of Florida.