RPOF accused of 'witch hunt' purges

When did the Florida GOP decided it wanted to emulate what used to be the Florida Democrats' domain: intraparty warfare? Here's the latest example (UPDATE: please note the RPOF response at bottom):

URGENT!!!
Republicans Are being Targeted: You Could Be Next!
ACTION NEEDED NOW

It's been more than a month of debate since Brevard County Republican Chair, Jason Steele, led his local party in voicing decent over the early endorsements of primary candidates by state party bosses, and statewide Republicans remain engaged in a battle for the soul of the Republican
Party.

Following Steele's announcement that his local party would not support primary endorsements by the state political machine, and the subsequent resignation of the Brevard Republican Executive Committee Secretary, Travis Clinger, who was asked to resign amidst allegations that he acted against his organizations vote to rebuke state bosses, RPOF has begun a purge of independent minded Republican leaders throughout the state.

Deon Long, one of the state's most influential African American leaders, was recently removed and banned for life from participating in Republican Party activities, after he spoke out criticizing party big wigs for their attacks on Republican Liberty Caucus leader Will Pitts.

"This is the kind of witch hunt that will only serve to purge loyal conservative Republicans, and make room for cronies who will tow the line behind part fat cats and their pet candidates," said Brevard Chairman Jason Steele. "In a time when we are working so hard at the local level to expand the outreach of the conservative message, we need leaders like Deon, and Will Pitts, and a hundred others. This is not the time to stifle debate by silencing the real leaders of our party."

Steele himself has been notified that he is the target of a grievance alleging he violated the RPOF loyalty oath by his actions at the local level. "I have been and remain a loyal Republican, but I have not been, and will not be a mindless follower of the state 'party line,'" said Steele.
"We are engaged in nothing less than a battle for the soul of our party, and our nation, and I will not sit by and watch as voices are shunned for speaking out!"

Steele called RPOF actions a "purge" and said he and other leaders around the state would fight to see that every Republican voice counted, and that the party returned to the corps values that he said his organization was built upon.

"We live in a nation facing tough economic times, threats to our way of life are at home and abroad, and the world marches forward looking to us for leadership, and it troubles me that the party of Lincoln and Reagan is being decimated by a hand full of good ole' boys looking to preserve their own power," said Steele. "We have been the party of ideas, of true inclusion, and now we must remind every Republican of that, and we must call on each other's strength and commitment to restore and rejuvenate our 'Grand Old Party'"

If you feel as strongly as I do, Please contact us and help us take our party back. (321) 258-8993, or e-mail rfbjasonsteele@juno.com. Your help is vital if we are going to restore individual accountability to our party and our nation!

Sincerely,

Jason Steele
Chairman
Brevard Republican Executive Committee

RPOF's Katie Gordon: "Deon Long was not permanently removed from the Party. He
was removed from holding a leadership position for a period of 4 years by
the unanimous recommendation of the grievance committee. He was given the
opportunity to appear before the committee to present his case and chose
not to.

"The personality conflict between Jason Steele and Travis Clinger has little
to do with the state party. Both parties will have the opportunity to
present their cases before the grievance committee later this month. It is
unfortunate these types of e-mails receive so much publicity, detracting
from the reality that hundreds of county leaders and thousands of
volunteers across Florida are working hard to get Republicans elected."

Comments

[ufalumni]

Its about time the RPOF took a stand against the Libertarians trying to take over the Republican Party. This isn't about infighting within the party, its about a completely separate political party trying to take over the Republican Party. If you go to the Republican Liberty Caucus National website it clearly states that their goal is to turn the Republican Party into the Libertarian Party.

It should be noted that these grievances are brought by REC members, not initiated by the RPOF. It is my understanding that all grievances like these are brought before the grievance committee.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only]

The OBAMA-CRIST philosophy does not embrace any free market principles, including your choice of a candidate.

[Sarah Wahlquist]

Under Greer the RPOF has become financially and morally bankrupt.
The latest report is the first time in twenty years that the FLADEM party has raised more than RPOF.
RPOF spent $500,000 more than it took in with only 225 contributors - with over $250,000 going to Jim Greer's travel!
Mr. Greer's criminal record needs to be exposed and this crook run out of office - sooner the better.
Crist has even abandoned him with Crist sucking all the money out of the state, leaving RPOF bankrupt.
Deficit spending - all for Jim Greer's personal enrichment!
Time for a change, before it's too late.
This grievance committee better have some thick skin! The battle is coming.

[how 'bout them repiggies]

"...voicing decent..."

Does he mean "voicing dissent?"

The repiggies are currently conducting a scorched-earth policy in regard to any sort of political difference from the party line.

That's some "big tent" they've pitched.

In the meantime, intelligent independent voters have fled that party, holding their noses because of the stench.

The idea that the repiggies are champions of the "free market" is preposterous, given their overly eager penchant for corporate monopolies. These monopolies indulge in price-fixing, and their goal is to remove as much personal wealth from the average person as possible.

The health insurance "market" is a scam, a ruthless monopoly that gets worse and worse with each passing year.

[ufalumni]

Crist has a 70% approval rating among Republicans and out raised Rubio by 4 million dollars. I think the Republicans in Florida ARE making their choice of candidate.

[dog the bounty hunter]

Isn't that the county chairman who is trying to take out an incumbent republican house memeber? So its ok for him to target republicans?

[Tampa bay GOP]

Greer has done alot of good for the party, this is all about the county's dislike for Crist. The REC's hate our Governor and Greer is the whipping boy!

[Less on the Grassroots, More on the Elections]

Sarah Wahlquist, you are incorrect on several points. I really think you should get your facts right before you speak.

As I posted yesterday the RPOF is now detailing all their AMEX charges under the Other Expenses section on the Div of Elections website. It looks like of that 250K, 182K was for one of their quarterly meetings in Orlando. Everything else on the Amex looks like small stuff. We can debate the fact that they are spending too much on grassroots meetings and not saving for next year, but that is for another post.

2009 Q2 04/01/2009 90,000.00 ROSEN SHINGLE CREEK
2009 Q2 04/01/2009 78,826.87 ROSEN SHINGLE CREEK
2009 Q2 04/01/2009 13,923.42 AMERICAN AUDIO VISUAL

Your statement, “The latest report is the first time in twenty years that the FLADEM party has raised more than RPOF,” is simply incorrect.

If you go to the Div of Elections website and compare the totals for the RPOF and FDP (which go back to 1996) you will see that the last time that the FDP outraised the RPOF was in 2008, when Obama was pumping all their money into the state as they outspent McCain 5 to 1.

Example:
8/22/08 – 10/30/08 FDP outraised RPOF by 12.2 million
10/31/08 – 12/31/08 FDP outraised RPOF by 2.2 million

Before 2008, on 7/1/06 – 8/31/06 the FDP outraised RPOF by 1 million.

In fact, since 1/1/1996, when the records went online, the FDP has outraised RPOF during 14 different reporting periods.

All that said, since 1996 (1/1/1996 to 6/30/09) RPOF has out raised FDP by almost $100 million. Maybe that is why they keep winning elections.

[Fl Republican]

Our party is under assault,there are some it appears,that believe our party members should either move further to the right or face condemnation and rude comments with childish names attached.
I am not sure about the libertarians actually being behind this though.
My take on this is,it's only business's or wealthy people that should have a reduction in governmental constraints is the direction these Republican/libertarian cross breed.
In other words,Libertarian Government with social conservative restraints.
A true Libertarian form of government would make true the separation of church and state and would abolish anti drug laws and not punish much of anything not violent.
I do not like what is happening,we are having politicians telling us that a staunch party line is more important then the peoples wishes.This could end Democracy!

[How much was spent on Greer and his family]

11:25 AM On the Rosen $ numbers how much of that was for Greer's family, such as hotel rooms, food, etc. The kids get VIP cards and are spending away in the various shops. How many hotel rooms do you need to house him, the kids, the nanny. Plus how much to feed that group.

[Hold the phone...]

I always thought most of what we were reading about Jim Greer was from people who were just pushing rumors and didn't realize much of what Jim Greer spent wasn't all that far beyond what previous Chairmen have used party funds for.

However, today, if even a pinhead dot of truth is in this posting, below, about Greer's family and expenses for them, he needs to go right now. I have already decided long ago not to give to the party until Greer is gone. But that doesn't mean we don't still care about the party. This below is certainly far beyond the bounds of what Chairmen should do. Perhaps this is part of the reason why Tallahassee will not allow an internal but open audit of the credit cards.

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11:25 AM On the Rosen $ numbers how much of that was for Greer's family, such as hotel rooms, food, etc. The kids get VIP cards and are spending away in the various shops. How many hotel rooms do you need to house him, the kids, the nanny. Plus how much to feed that group.

Posted by: How much was spent on Greer and his family | July 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM

[T.D.]

It was nice of Jason Steele's 4th grader to type that e-mail for him.

While this sentence was rough, I'm glad he avoided the all too easy pitfall of the "which" hunt:

"This is the kind of witch hunt that will only serve to purge loyal conservative Republicans, and make room for cronies who will tow the line behind part fat cats and their pet candidates."

He's right though. I don't think anyone should be towing any lines behind part fat cats.

[extremists get there day in court,non-extremists,throw the commies out now]

The double standards and hypocrisy of the libertarian/republicans show in every post.now obviously most of these posts are by one person but if you are a regular reader of this blog you have seen the same thing.
This new faction of ditto heads with an attitude post as though we all have our heads in the clouds,we don't.
Why would a party throw out a member that is electable,popular and has national name recognition?
The new faction AKA extremists don't care if there guy gets elected or not,as long as these people can get control of the party they have a future long term.Right now,short term they will forgo some seats,give up popular politicians just to show the others that they have a "machine",a very powerful "machine" that is governed nationally.
So long GOP of old!

[bye-bye Marco and Jason]

Jason Steele=Ron Paul loonie! He's toast now-Mr. Goofball had a chance to make a difference and decided he liked Ron Paul trouble makers. Rubio too.

[Sansom stays,greer must go]

What is wrong with you all,get greer out now.Greer made the mortal error of not clearing a candidate with the far right minority in the party,I know the far right minority did not did not ask the majority in the Republican party about their pick,they don't have to if it wont agree with them.This Greer guy,he needs to understand,the majority does not run the party,this is not a democracy this is a Republic and the Representative of the Republican party will be chosen by us,the minority,the strong,the extremists!!!
Dare to think a majority can over rule us??? We will throw you out of the party,the entire plus 70% of you.
In case you majority did not know,we have the right to say who is and who isn't a republican.I don't care if you have been a Republican for 50 years,if you don't agree with the 20 something percent in the minority we will shame you out of here.You are with us,or against us,no neutral ground here.

[RPOFofficial]

Jim Greer is the RPOF version of Dick Cheney: Secretive, shady and a THUG who steamrolls anyone opposed to him. "UFalumni" are you the tool known as Brian Ianucci from St. John's Co? The Republican-lite/me-tooism of Crist(D) and Greer is more dangerous to the party than any libertarian ideas you might be afraid of. Why would a tool such as yourself support freedom when your dream is to be the moral arbiter of all Florida and tell everyone how to live?
UF? More like FU!!!!

[Paul D. Harvill]

Republican cannibals.

Eating their own.

What us Democrats have done for far too long.

[Rob]

Jim Greer is an ex-felon and a crook.
He's now trying to round up the opposition and eliminate them.
He will fail.
The party is collapsing financially under the weight of Greer-lead spending binges.
The party got nearly wiped out by the Greer team including that morbidly obese Delmar - the dumb/happy redneck.
Rubio supporters have been targeted and so have Dockery for Governor supporters.
Interesting that the party wasn't able to deliver for it's old losing candidate for Governor, Bill McCollum.
A mil won't go very far, Bill - give up and run for tax collector somewhere - you'll never be Governor.
The party failures are now legendary and Greers' steak and lobster dinners at the Breakers are well documented.
Can't wait to see the arrest records go statewide and it won't be long!
The RPOF needs to dumb this bad boy before the entire party collapses under the obese weight of corruption.

[Real Republican]

As someone who has worked with Republican campaigns in Florida for many years and worked with several RPOF Chairs, including Slade, CJJ, Al and Van Poole, I must say I have never seen the local County REC's conduct themselves so poorly and embarrass our own Republican Governor and State Party Chairman. I will say that Chairman Greer has faults like all of us, but his greatest fault may have been not recognizing the culture of the RPOF State Committee and his attempt to run RPOF in a business like manner.
When Jeb was Governor, the relationship between the State Party and the EOG was one in which no one really cared what the State Party thought and the RPOF was irrelevant as far as Jeb and his team were concerned. Maybe there was an illusion or some wishful thinking by State Committee Members, but the Party was really run by the ED and lip service was given to County REC officers.

When Greer became Chairman, he heard from several people that developing a closer relationship with the County REC's and getting them more involved was a big, big mistake. But, to Greer's own detriment, he ignored the advice of people who really knew that the value of the REC's and Clubs was non existant.

This latest email from Jason Steele is probably the most outrageous thing I have ever seen in over 20 years. If ever a guy should be kicked out of the State Party it is Steele. His only motivation is to according to some of his own local legislators is to run around attacking Charlie Crist and Jim Greer in hopes of getting his name out for a potential legislative run against an incumbent Republican that defeated Steele in last year's election. Steele, in my opinion, is a real disgrace and should be held accountable.

When Greer came in, he had alot of innovative ideas and has continued to do some things that needed to get done. Most of his efforts should be applauded and not criticized. In this writer's opinion, he has spent too much money on grass roots events and activities and should worry less about keeping the County REC's happy, but then again he has been the only Chair that I have seen that really had an ability to raise money for the Party to help fund some of these programs.

Another fault of Greer's is that he probably has not given Crist the best advice when it comes to the base of the Party and the uproar that some of the Governor's decisions have caused. Distancing himself from Crist and indicating dissatisfaction would have gone a long way with the wingnuts.

The RPOF has always been a top organization, but with the challenges the GOP is facing nationally, we cannot afford to have a small group of disgruntled County Chairs or State Committee Men and Women openly attacking their Party leadership with false statements, misleading information and sometimes outright lies. All this is doing is helping the Democrats and making the RPOF a political joke.

To all the RPOF State Committee Members, a word of advice - we've got elections to win, stop making Republicans look stupid in the media, stop sending assanine emails attacking your State Party Chairman and Governor, stop pushing your own self serving agenda and do start working with your State Party leadership to win the Senate, Governorship and Legislative seats in 2010.

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Many who call themselves Libertarians are just holy rollers who don't want to pay taxes.

They do not embrace true liberty. Most of them want to inflict holy roller dogma on this society.

The true Libertarian is "laisser faire" across the board.
They allow things to do, to be, without exception, without religious caveats, without racial barriers, without gender bias.

A good case could be made for a truly Libertarian society.
The repiggies are too weighed down with the "social conservatism" crap to ever embrace true Libertarianism.

[UF Alum.. read the current news]

A June 2009 Mason-Dixon Poll Showed The Race Is Virtually A Dead Heat Among GOP Voters That Recognize Both Candidates.

“Gov. Charlie Crist’s lead in the Republican U.S. Senate race is still better than a 2-1 ratio, but challenger Marco Rubio showed slight progress in a new statewide poll released Monday. … Among Republicans who recognized both names, Crist's lead was 33 percent to 31 percent. With an error margin of 6 percent, and 36 percent of GOP voters saying they are undecided, the figures were encouraging for Rubio. ‘Half of the Republicans have never heard of Rubio but among the half that have, the race is essentially tied,’ said Brad Coker, director of the Mason-Dixon poll. ‘If Rubio gets a little money and gets a little momentum going, it's a dead heat.’ The results also marked incremental progress for Rubio from a Mason-Dixon Poll taken last month, when Crist led 53 percent to 18 percent.” (“Crist Still Ahead In Polls: But Rubio Gaining In Primary Run-Up,” Tallahassee Democrat, 6/30/09)

Go Marco.

[Angela]

Crist may have a 70% approval rating, but that just shows how out of touch the voters are with the issues. don'tknow squat about Marco, but it will be a cold day in Hialeah before I vote for anybody who supported the stimulus. Crist did. The republicans who supported *that* idiocy are the lot that need to be kicked out of the party.

[JJ]

Real Republican- WELL SAID!

[Sansom stays and rubio and ron paul get promoted from never beens to possible leaders of the free world because they are the new libertarian republicans???]

I had a friend that had a new race car he had just built,it was slow,not as slow as some of those fight for last place guys but for who was involved and the equipment that was used in building this car,it was too dang slow.
My friend had a perpetual nemesis running in the class above his cars class and my friend looked at me and said,"how about we put tires on it and run it in the class above" (you were allowed better tires in class above)
Well this reminds me of this war we have going on within the Republican party,they are not fast enough to run in the slow beginner class so they want to put tires on it and run with the faster and better cars,in itself is ok but if these idiots can't win and they want to wreck all the other cars!

[True Blue]

I am thrilled to see our G.O.P. friends at each other throats.

[Gator]

If ever Chairman Greer should remove someone it's this guy Jason Steel, what a disgrace to the RPOF. I wonder how many RPOF State members have told Steel they disapprove of his actions?

[Philosopher]

Gov. Crist and Greer have destroyed the RPOF by trying to force ideas on the grassroots which they don't want or like.

[Watchful Eye]

CRIST DOES NOT HAVE A 70% APPROVAL RATING!!!
LATEST MASON-DIXON POLLS SHOWS THAT HE HAS 51%(DOWN SOME 20FROM 3 MONTHS AGO). IT ALSO SHOWS RUBIO UP TO 23%(UP 20 FROM 3 MONTHS AGO).

http://www.ronsachs.com/docs/floridasenatepoll62909.pdf

Watch how Crist's numbers continue to drop.

[Watchful Eye]

QUESTION: If the 2010 Republican primary for Florida’s U.S.
Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the
candidates were Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio?
ALL GOP VOTERS WHO RECOGNIZE BOTH
CRIST 51% 33%
RUBIO 23% 31%
UNDECIDED 26% 36%

[kent dorfman]

UFalumni:
remove nose from Chuck and Greer's anus, it is covered with brown stuff!

Yes, this witchhunt began several years ago when RPOF passed a resolution allowing the chairman (fatboy) to get rid of any REC member he or (Chuckie) didn't like.

That way they could create their own virtual dictatorship.

But we can see the seeds of discord have started to grow with the local REC's bucking illegal primary endorsements. This was Chuck and Frenchie's MO from the 06 gubernatorial campaign.

Chuck and the fatman with the funny voice may think they've got everything under control but they better get ready for the sh*tstorm that's about to rain down upon them!

[RECALL JIM GREER!!]

JIM GREER IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER DISGRACE. All that money to "pay for the quarterly meetings," how much of that went to buy himself, his family, and Delmar spa treatments, goodies at the gift shop, cocktails, and food galore?

As for the other RPOF tool defending Greer and his fundraising: One of two things, or a combination thereof is taking place:

1. People are pissed about Greer's spending habits and have stopped giving money to the party, OR
2. Greer has told people to donate the Charlie's campaign instead of the party so Charlie and the party can tout his fundraising numbers against Rubio.

I believe it is a combination of the two. Regardless, BOTH REASONS are disgraceful, and it is Jim Greer's fault. Jim Greer, who is an ex-felon who jetsets all over the country using a private jet at the party's expense only because the empty suited Charlie Crist decided to force him upon our party.

IT IS TIME TO RECALL JIM GREER, IT IS TIME TO GET CHARLIE CRIST THE HELL OUT OF FLORIDA POLITICS AND RETURN OUR PARTY TO SOUND, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.

You long-winded so-called "Real Republican" at 1:21 have it TOTALLY wrong. Local RECs are revolting against this governor and this chairman because of their ANTI-REPUBLICAN behavior. Slade, Al, CJJ, etc. didn't face this kind of revolt because they ran the party properly, not like some Charlie Crist fan club. If you truly worked for them, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for comparing them to this fat fool we have in there now.

JOIN THE GROUP TO RECALL JIM GREER NOW:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=92347083658&ref=ts

[Steve]

Does Charlie Crist want to be a Sernator so badly he is willing to have his boy Greer create a police state out of the once-proud GOP?

[Steve]

The "Recall Jim Greer" dude may have a point. Maybe Greer is asking regular party donors to give to the Crist campaign instead of the party so Crist appears stronger than he really is. The Democrats had over 1700 donors to the Republicans 200 something. There's something weird about that.

[Brevard Republican]

Jason Steele is an abomination of a party chairman. His email would make you think we are living in Stalin's Russia. And, his doublespeak about party unity - when he decided to challenge a sitting Republican incumbent after being elected Brevard GOP Chairman - is laughable. He is simply using his position as party chair to further his own personal agenda, not to help bring unity to the RPOF. Jason Steele, a martyr you are not.

[CC]

Frank Tsamoutales, is that you?

[OMAR]

I HEARD CHARLIE CHRIST PUT PRESSURE ON THE PARTY TO SILENCE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY WONT HURT HIS CAMPAIGN! WE GOT TO GET THESE LIB'S OUT OF OUR PARTY! GREER AND CRIST HAVE TO GO!!

[Remove Greer]

Greer needs a serious spanking and KICKED out in August. Who the hell does he think he is?

[Remove Greer]

This whole infighting thing is about neocons and real Republicans. It's time for the neocons to go!

[SpaceCoastVic09]

At 1:21pm Real Republican wrote, "When Greer became Chairman, he heard from several people that developing a closer relationship with the County REC's and getting them more involved was a big, big mistake. But, to Greer's own detriment, he ignored the advice of people who really knew that the value of the REC's and Clubs was non existant."

Chairman Greer probably should follow the advice of Real Republican and break all relationships with county REC's. Many state committeemen and committeewomen take their marching orders from Chairman Greer. As the chief spokesman for Governor Crist's campaign that has broken all previous fundraising records, Jim Greer doesn't need to listen to the county RECs. The Republican Primary candidate for Florida Senate was hand-picked; it is Governor Crist.

As Real Republican said, "Most of his {Greer's} efforts should be applauded and not criticized." Hail Caesar Augustus!!!

[Jim Greer on Host Committee for Charlie]

Recall Jim Greer - you might have a very good point there. Did you see the host committee for Charlie's New York Fundraiser, "Jim and Lisa Greer" got their name on it? He can't raise money for the RPOF, but he has time to spend raising money for Charlie out of state, but then again I doubt he will raise any money for that event either.

Greer never raised the money for the party Charlie did and you can see how the fund raising is shaping up since he told Greer he would not raise anymore money for the party - the Democrats beat the Republicans with their fundraising.

I am sure he bullied his way to get his name on the committee - he is always trying to rub elbows with those that think he is a joke.

[Get out of my party extremists]

Why don't you extremists get out of my party?
Don't you dare come here with your out of town national Agenda and tell US what to do.
I refuse to allow some extremist organization not even in this state dictate who will be our leader and who will even be allowed to stay in our own party.
I used to think it was moon bat crazy to think there were paid posters,LOOK dang it,just read them and you can see the bumper sticker mentality and -O- amount of debate.Just name calling and bumper stickers is all we are getting,this IS an outside organization that is using their little pawns in our local forums.
I say this,when one of these bumper sticker readers and talking point parrots try to spread the propaganda,ignore them.If nobody responds they will go away.Do NOT engage anyone who will not debate.
We Republicans own this party,take your libertarian butt's back to your party!

[sunshngurl]

The war loving, fear mongering, torture supporting, Israel ethnic cleansing defending Neocons have ruined the GOP. Time to clean house and make room for the real Republicans.

[Jim? Come on its time to go.]

I dont know Deon Long or Jason Steele but i do know Jim Greer. It is sad to see what is happening to the RPOF. He has completely ruined his name and that his his top advisers. Gov Crist stays away from him Bill Mccullum does the same. How about Mel or Jeb? Come on Jim no one wants to have anything to do with you. Do the right thing and resign. Maybe Steele will give you a post in DC. You are hurting yourself and the Party please give it up.
Should you stay too much longer the last person holding you up (Charlie) will send in one of the boys to have a talk with you. Then you will have to go in disgrace. The clock is ticking.........

[Sad]

Look at all the top guys for Charlie who have walked away from the Party since Greer went on his ego trip. Harry, Manny, Scott, Robert, Randy, Brian etc etc etc. You had good relations with all of them. None will deal with you now. Charlie is not the problem Jim its you and you need to go very soon. Its not the wackos on the fringes its EVERYONE.

[Sow and Reap]

It's not just so-called Libertarians, the same thing is happening in other counties to people with long and valuable work records for the RPOF. But just because some local chairman does not like them, or wants a pal to hold their spot, he finds ways to get rid of them. A recall can't work, the leadership is already stacked with Greer supporters. And that's why we don't see the money coming in and the volunteers are disappearing. They see what's happening and it's very ugly. The party has done itself in.

[Paul D. Harvill]

To: Real Republican | July 12, 2009 at 01:21 PM ---

Altough you write it in a more carefully framed manner, Gov. Jeb Bush was as close to being a dictator as Florida has ever had -- within the confines of our Constitution.

[Tony]

Let's not forget that Greer wanted to run for Congress and asked Deon Long to support him and Long said no.
Shortly afterward Greer realizes that his own attempt to move up the ladder dashed by the very popular Long so he drops out of the congressional race.
Shortly after that Greer removes the only statewide black GOP leader we have after he wins the local chairmanship of the swishy Lew Oliver.
Incidentally, Oliver hasn't had a meeting since the contested and rigged election and over 170 people have QUIT the Lew Oliver show.
Great accomplishment for Greer and Oliver - chase them all out and remove your opposition.
Jason Steele was an outstanding legislator and a great GOP leader with lots of friends on the RPOF state committee and in the legislature.
My bet is that Greer can't steal any more money after August!

[Paul D. Harvill]

how 'bout them repiggies | July 12, 2009 at 01:24 PM wrote:

The true Libertarian is "laisser faire" across the board.

________________

Sort of like National Socialism in the Germany of 1933 - 1945?

The historic results of true "laissez-faire" are demonic. The inversion of the more noble values of the Western tradition.

The historic results include mass murder, mass extermination.

Being a member of the Libertarian Party is, well, you can figure that out now.

[Paul D. Harvill]

To: UF Alum.. read the current news | July 12, 2009 at 01:26 PM ---

However look at the green raised by Crist and Rubio.

Rubio is dead in the water.

[Paul D. Harvill]

Gov. Crist and Greer have destroyed the RPOF by trying to force ideas on the grassroots which they don't want or like.

Posted by: Philosopher | July 12, 2009 at 01:53 PM

________________

A good way to put it.