Florida's female delegates get front-row seats

Jim Greer asks that when Gov. Sarah Palin takes the stage that all the men in the delegation turn over their credential passes to women and "we fill the entire front of that delegation with women from the state of Florida," Greer said.

"As the governor says, ladies, first, ladies and gentlemen," Greer said. He also asked that all the women wear orange scarves to signify Florida and orange juice.

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Good lord, that's ridiculous.

That is offensive to women.

And orange juice.

This is just wrong - Florida is shaped like a phallus.

Orange scarves? Do women wear scarves anymore? Will the hired security detail be required to wear orange scarves?

and I thought citrus cancker had a brown color to it...

"The gifts that God has given to Barack Obama are as enormous as his future is unlimited. As his mentor, as his colleague, as his friend, I look forward to helping him reach to the stars and realize not just the dreams he has for himself but the dreams we all have for him and our blessed country."

-- Sen. Joe Lieberman, introducing Sen. Barack Obama at the 2006 Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey dinner in Connecticut.

Things change when you find out the candidate you were saying good things about is a communist and a fraud who is out to destroy America!!!

[Bryan]

Good Lord, the entire front row will look like a bunch of Anita Bryat wannabes!! Are they all going to run out this afternoon and get boufant hairdos?!

"Things change..." Seriously?

Really, huh? "Out to destroy America?"

Sure, pal. Whatever you say.

[John McSame]

Keep it up boys! If we can fool those stupid split-tails into thinking we actually see them as something other than food cookers, house cleaners, and booty givers… we just might get their vote!… Why do you think I picked that fish bait from Alaska!… You don’t think I’ll let the b**ch actually run anything do ya?

HAHAHAHAHAHAAA… hey boys; beer and p o r n o in my room tonight! I’ve got a new one from Levi with a seventeen year old in it!

McSame/Hockey Mom ’08! “Continuing the Destruction of this Great Nation!”

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whoever said orange is the new pink is seriously disturbed.

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If they want to signify Florida maybe they should hold foreclosure signs.

[Jo]

What destruction of America?
Be specific.

why is the republican convention so phenomenally boring?

how come when i look at the crowd shots everyone looks the same -- dorky old white folks.

i'm white myself, but I at least get out in the sun...i dunno...during the summer!

It's boring because only about 168 idiots even bothered to show up for it!

You would think it would be fun considering most attendees live in fantasy land.

Is this a joke. This sounds stupid. Take about FloriDUH. This is like the Dems asking all the blacks to move to the front row when Obama spoke. What a stupid idea sure to annoy women who will see this as a stupid "stunt". Talk about out of touch republicans.

All the women are supposed to sit in front row, wear orange scarves, AND put on Anita Bryant face masks.

[Get a grip Times]

This blog has turned into the Dailykos.

Put dem wimins up front so we'ins can stare at their bums!

Love,

Old, white, rich republican perverted men

Welcome to Stepford, er, Wisteria Lane, er, the Republican National Convention!

As the saying goes "Well behaved women rarely make history"

GOBAMA/BIDEN 08!

As a female Republican and Floridian, I ask this: Can I throw up now or later?

seriously....Greer wants all the women to sit up front and wear orange scarves? Should they also wear a set of sensible shoes, classic pearls, and maybe an apron? I would love to slap his possum like face.
He is more of an embarrassment to our party every day. Delmar, how do you put up with it?

Watch for Cynthia's orange scarf tonight. Greer is putting all the women in the front row and asking them to wear scarves. Cynthia, don't take that the wrong way. You must wear a dress underneath! You are more experienced than Sarah, Cynthia, but don't get your panties in a wad tonight. Maybe you can move to Alaska Cynthia and run things up there. Al is still taking care of you we know. The men are 6 to one I hear up there. Whoolala.

Cynthia for VP! She has a damn law degree.

Hey 5:31 She also has a bunny tail you idiot. Cindy McCain would never agree to Cynthia. Cindy and Cynthia, listen to that, come on.

Cindy McCain would love Cynthia Henderson. Cynthia doesn't have anything in the oven anymore and probably can't. She just has angry ex husbands who show up all hours of the night with pic axes.

Sarah for VP! Sarah for VP!

5:31 how do we end up with a delegate who was in the paper having an affair and the husband cut the door down? how do we end up with these kinds of quality delegates?

Florida Delegate - 2004 -Cynthia Henderson, a prominent lobbyist and former agency head for Gov. Jeb Bush, obtained a temporary restraining order last week against her husband after he found her in bed with another man and allegedly threatened them with a crowbar, court records show. "He was pulling sheets with crowbar trying to take pictures and yelling he was going to kill us if we moved," Henderson wrote. "He kept trying to entice my boyfriend to move so he could kill him. He was yelling horrible names, threatening to show pictures to my children and "everyone' to ruin my reputation."

When Eubanks left the room, Hartley locked the bedroom door and Henderson called 911, Henderson wrote.

"He returned and beat the door with crowbar. He beat out bottom half of door. Didn't leave until sheriff on way," Henderson wrote.

Hartley, whose wife, Andrea, filed for divorce in Leon Circuit Court two days later, did not return a reporter's calls Thursday.

Henderson's husband of three months, Bennett T. Eubanks III of Blountstown, left her Tallahassee home before sheriff's deputies arrived in response to her 911 call, Henderson wrote in court records.

The Leon County Sheriff's Office declined to release records of the July 19 incident, citing an ongoing investigation.

Eubanks, 44, part-owner of a Bainbridge, Ga., Ford dealership, referred questions Thursday to his attorney, David Barrett. Eubanks will contest the restraining order, which is scheduled to be reviewed by a judge Wednesday, Barrett said.

"Temporary injunctions are often granted without any evidence by the respondent," Barrett said. "If the temporary injunction remains in place, he will respond."

Henderson, 43, the controversial head of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation and later the Department of Management Services during Bush's first term, said on Thursday she filed for the restraining order because she feared for her life.

"I don't see how this is a matter of public interest," Henderson said. "This is a domestic violence issue."

The alleged attack came three months after Henderson and Eubanks married in an impromptu April ceremony after a five-month romance, Henderson said.

She changed her driver's license to reflect her married name and a Blountstown address, but she said they never moved in together.

Henderson said she stayed in her Tallahassee home so she could work during the 2004 legislative session and her two children from a previous marriage could finish the school year.

But by early June, she said, "It was clear it wasn't going to work. It was something I was talked into and something we should never have done."

She said she hired a lawyer June 17 to begin divorce proceedings. She said she told Eubanks - after she had decided to seek a divorce - that she had begun dating lobbyist Jeffrey Hartley, 31, whom she identified in court documents as her boyfriend.

On July 9, Henderson changed her Florida license back to her Tallahassee address. In a hand-written account filed Friday in Leon Circuit Court in support of the restraining order, Henderson said Eubanks used an electronic keypad to let himself into her Tallahassee home July 19.

"He was pulling sheets with crowbar trying to take pictures and yelling he was going to kill us if we moved," Henderson wrote. "He kept trying to entice my boyfriend to move so he could kill him. He was yelling horrible names, threatening to show pictures to my children and "everyone' to ruin my reputation."

When Eubanks left the room, Hartley locked the bedroom door and Henderson called 911, Henderson wrote.

"He returned and beat the door with crowbar. He beat out bottom half of door. Didn't leave until sheriff on way," Henderson wrote.

Hartley, whose wife, Andrea, filed for divorce in Leon Circuit Court two days later, did not return a reporter's calls Thursday.

Henderson was a Tampa lawyer when Bush chose her to oversee the state's business regulation in 1999. Her tenure there, and later at the agency overseeing the state's management services, was marked with controversy.

She successfully defended herself against ethics complaints tied to her acceptance of a plane ride to the Kentucky Derby from a restaurateur her agency regulated, and to renting a Tallahassee home from a lobbyist representing a client with business before her agency.

She also pushed through Bush's controversial policy to privatize the state's personnel services, Service First, a plan that is now more than a year behind schedule.

Henderson left state government in January 2003 and began work as a lobbyist for Tew Cardenas, a Miami firm.

But she quickly drew scrutiny when she was lobbying for a computer concern before officially registering as their representative.

Hartley works for Smith Bryan & Myers in Tallahassee.

Both Henderson and Hartley have more than a dozen high-profile clients. They both represent Progress Energy and United HealthCare of Florida before the Legislature. Hartley also is a lobbyist for the Hillsborough County Commission.

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5:08 as a female Republican you can ask what is the RPOF doing exactly!

5:43 Don't bring the whole female thing down all around us because of one bad apple in Florida. Women can make a difference! Sarah Palin is very respected. Jeb's daughter's actions did not impact his work in the Governor's office. Neither will Sarah's daughters actions.

[Waiting with anticipation!]

Do you crazy Republicans think that just because you say the Democrats are running scared it make it true? I for one am a Democrat who has been really enjoying the last few days. Watching the opponent self-destruct with no help from the opposition is always such a satisfying feeling. Keep it up! What's next? Jack Abramoff for Secretary of the Treasury? Katherine Harris for Secretary of State? I can't wait for the next shoe to drop!!

Anyone know where Noelle Bush is now? She has disappeared. Bet she isn't living anywhere near her mother.

Hey Dem, it would appear that the press is enjoying Sarah. Haven't seen or heard from Obama since Sarah arrived. Its awesome!

Florida Delegate - 2004 -Cynthia Henderson, a prominent lobbyist and former agency head for Gov. Jeb Bush, obtained a temporary restraining order last week against her husband after he found her in bed with another man and allegedly threatened them with a crowbar, court records show. "He was pulling sheets with crowbar trying to take pictures and yelling he was going to kill us if we moved," Henderson wrote. "He kept trying to entice my boyfriend to move so he could kill him. He was yelling horrible names, threatening to show pictures to my children and "everyone' to ruin my reputation."

When Eubanks left the room, Hartley locked the bedroom door and Henderson called 911, Henderson wrote.

"He returned and beat the door with crowbar. He beat out bottom half of door. Didn't leave until sheriff on way," Henderson wrote.

Hartley, whose wife, Andrea, filed for divorce in Leon Circuit Court two days later, did not return a reporter's calls Thursday.

Sarah for VP! Sarah for VP!

Sarah is a wonderful person. I grew up in her area and I am trying to get the word out that she is for real. She is extremely intelligent. She will do a great job. There is nothing she can't do and she knows how to put good people around her. She is a team player

All women out there need to watch Sarah tonight and rally around this. This is crucial to women everywhere to be able to see this happen. We must support her! Go Sarah!

Go Greer! That is awesome what you are doing tonight! What a shining moment to have an event like this and let the women be up front to show their support and cheer her on tonight! I love Jim Greer!

Yes Jim truly is and has the best interest of the State of Florida and Floridians at heart.

5:52 Cynthia go back inside to Forever 21 and get that size 5 on sale in the nightwear department. Orange baby!

Sarah for VP! Sarah for VP! Sarah for VP!

sarah sarah sarah sarah sarah !!!!!

Pales in comparison to asking Head Scarved ladies to get out of the picture as the Obama campaign did.

Nothing wrong with a little GIRL Power!

Palin Rocks!

McCain Palin '08

Cindy McCain has that beautiful adopted daughter. Cindy is really a special lady and knows and understands what it means to inspire women across the country. Cindy and Sarah together will be a shining testimony to woman everywhere! Go Cindy and go Sarah! We love you!

I love John McCain for what he has done choosing a woman! What an incredible man he is. To make that one decision on his running mate he has my VOTE!

John McCain is such a wonderful man. He is tried and true and he has wanted to be our leader for so long and he will break through many glass ceilings for the people of America.