Is Governor Charlie Crist Gay? Should We Care? | Psychology Today

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• CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO ALLEGATNS OF GAY AFFAIRS REVEALED IN JIM GREER INVTIGATN
• FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS GAY AND DNK — AND OTHER UNFOUND ALLEGATNS
• CHARLIE CRIST ACCED OF GAY AFFAIRS, DNKEN RAMPAG
• CHARLIE CRIST’S WHOPPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISSTEP
• CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?
• CHARLIE CRIST'S SECRETNO, ’S NOT THAT HE’S GAY, THOUGH THOSE MORS REMA. RATHER, SAYS THE DAILY BEAST’S REIHAN SALAM, THE REPUBLINS’ BT HOPE 2010 MIGHT BE RAILED BY HIS SHABBY ERNG LEGACY.REIHAN SALAMUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 12:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 13, 2009 3:21AM EDT JOE BURBANK, MCT / LANDOV IS HE OR ISN’T HE? AFTER ALMOST TWO S PUBLIC LIFE, FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS STILL ALG WH QUTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUAL PREFERENC. EVERY TIME CRIST IS ASKED IF HE’S GAY, HE GIV THE SAME ANSWER: A SIMPLE NO. THERE’S NOTHG FENSIVE OR GEY ABOUT . BUT THE QUTNS PERSIST NEVERTHELS, EVEN AFTER CRIST MARRIED A STRIKGLY ATTRACTIVE WOMAN LATE LAST YEAR. TO DIEHARD BELIEVERS THE CRIST-IS-CLOSETED THEORY, THE MARRIAGE IS FURTHER EVINCE OF CRIST’S DISHONTY—A NAKED ATTEMPT TO DISTRACT THE VOTG PUBLIC OM THE TTH. SIARLY, A SHORT-LIVED SNDAL OVER A 1989 PATERNY CLAIM AGAST CRIST IS DISMISSED BY THE NSPIRATORIAL AS YET ANOTHER EFFORT TO DUPE FLORIDIANS. CRIST IS NOT A NSERVATIVE. WH HIS PERMANENT TAN AND SLICK WHE MANE, HE’S MORE LIKE A KR, GENTLER LAT AMERIN UDILLO, WHO WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN TO BE CHEERED ON BY ADORG THRONGS.LIKE THE NOTN THAT PRINT OBAMA IS A SECRET MLIM, THE IA THAT CRIST IS GAY WILL NEVER GO AWAY. ASSUMG THE NSA HASN’T VENTED A LONG-DISTANCE SEXUAL BRA PROBE THAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT, IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TERME WHETHER OR NOT CRIST’S LATE-NIGHT FANTASI STAR A YOUNG JACLYN SMH OR A YOUNG TOM SELLECK. A NUMBER OF OBSERVERS ARE OPENLY WONRG IF THE GAY MOR WILL SK CRIST’S CHANC OF HOLDG MEL MARTEZ’S SENATE SEAT FOR THE GOP. THE THEORY, ADVANCED MOSTLY ON THE LEFT-OF-CENTER, IS THAT GAY-HATG RIGHT-WGERS WILL TRY TO BRG CRIST DOWN.IT TURNS OUT, THOUGH, THAT FLORIDA’S REPUBLIN PRIMARY VOTERS ARE MORE TERTED ANOTHER “IS HE OR ISN’T HE?”: A GROWG NUMBER OF NSERVATIV WANT TO KNOW IF CRIST IS THE NEXT ARLEN SPECTER. FOR A PARTY ON THE ROP, YOU’D THK REPUBLINS WOULD BE LS TERTED IOLOGIL PURY. WHOUT CRIST OR FORMER GOVERNOR JEB BH THE RACE, DEMOCRATS HAVE LONG EXPECTED MARTEZ’S SEAT TO FALL TO THEIR HANDS LIKE A RIPENED PAPAYA. BUT WH CRIST AS THE REPUBLIN NDIDATE, NO DEMOCRAT STANDS A CHANCE. CRIST’S SENATE N IS ALREADY BEG TOUTED AS THE BEGNG OF A REPUBLIN EBACK. GIVEN THAT GOP HIGH MAND IS PRAISG ALLAH FOR LIVERG CRIST UNTO THEM, ’S WORTH NOTG THAT NSERVATIV ARE BUZZG ABOUT MAR RUB, THE YOUTHFUL FORMER SPEAKER OF THE FLORIDA HOE. A FLUENTLY BILGUAL 37-YEAR-OLD CUBAN-AMERIN EVANGELIL OM A BLUE-LLAR IMMIGRANT BACKGROUND WH AN EX-CHEERLEAR WIFE, FOUR CHILDREN, A EP BELIEF THE HEALG POWER OF TAX CUTS, AND SQUARE-JAWED ALL-AMERIN LOOKS, RUB IS A RITURE OF THE IAL 21ST-CENTURY REPUBLIN. WH POSSIBLE BEHD-THE-SCEN SUPPORT OM JEB BH, RUB IS PLANNG A SRCHED-EARTH MPAIGN AGAST CRIST AS A FIREBRAND NSERVATIVE STANDG AGAST THE FORC OF BIG-ERNMENT RINOISM.AND RUB, A RARE POLIL TALENT, MIGHT ACTUALLY PULL OFF, OR AT LEAST HE MIGHT LEAVE CRIST JT BLOODIED ENOUGH TO GIVE DEMOCRATS THE SENATE SEAT NOVEMBER. GETTG THERE, HOWEVER, WILL MEAN JETTISONG MUCH OF WHAT IS MOST APPEALG ABOUT RUB. IN THE STATE HOE, RUB VELOPED A REPUTATN AS A POLICY WONK TERTED OVERHLG THE STATE’S PUBLIC SECTOR ALONG THE L THAT CENTRIST REPUBLINS HAVE PURSUED THE GOOD-ERNMENT PARADISE THAT IS INDIANA. THIS ISN’T VERY SEXY, AND ISN’T VERY IOLOGIL. BUT DID SUGGT THAT RUB WAS MORE THAN A REAGANE TOMATON. THE SAME GO FOR RUB’S GUTSY AND NTRARIAN CISN TO BACK THE REAL REPUBLIN MAVERICK OF 2008, MIKE HUCKABEE. THERE’S A WORLD WHICH RUB SHOULD ABSOLUTELY CSH AND STROY CRIST—A WORLD WHICH RUB RAN A TLY NOVATIVE, POLICY-HEAVY MPAIGN. INSTEAD, PRSGLY, WE’LL PROBABLY SEE RUB ATTACK CRIST AS A CHARDONNAY-SIPPG SOCIALIST.ONE OF THE KEY NSERVATIVE CHARG AGAST CRIST IS THAT HIS CISN TO BACK PRINT OBAMA’S STIMUL PACKAGE WAS UTTERLY BANKPT. CRIST SEEMED MORE TERTED CURRYG FAVOR WH THE STATE’S ARMY OF PUBLIC-SECTOR WORKERS THAN KEEPG THE FAH WH NSERVATIVE PRCIPL. AND HONTLY, THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT. CRIST IS NOT A NSERVATIVE. WH HIS PERMANENT TAN AND SLICK WHE MANE, HE’S MORE LIKE A KR, GENTLER LAT AMERIN UDILLO, WHO WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN TO BE CHEERED ON BY ADORG THRONGS. CRIST WOULD BE RIGHT AT HOME WH JUAN AND EVA PERON, DANCG THE NIGHT AWAY AND PROMISG EE T-BONE STEAKS TO THE IMPOVERISHED MASS. AS ERNOR, CRIST HAS ENJOYED TREMENDO POPULARY—HE HAS OBAMA-LIKE JOB-APPROVAL NUMBERS—AND HE’S DONE BY HARDLY EVER MAKG TOUGH LLS.THERE’S NO QUTN THAT FLORIDA IS TRENDG DEMOCRATIC, AND DON’T HELP THAT THE STATE’S ENOMY IS SKG TO THE MARSHY EP OM WHENCE ME. CRIST IS KEENLY AWARE OF THIS, AND HE’S MOVED ACRDGLY. IN FLH TIM, A CENT NUMBER OF FLORIDA’S MT-W LATOS, NOTABLY MIAMI’S HIGHLY FLUENTIAL CUBAN-AMERIN MUNY, WERE OPEN TO SMALL-ERNMENT REPUBLINS. A PUNISHG WAVE OF FORECLOSUR—WHICH H LATO FAI PARTICULARLY HARD—HAS CHANGED ALL THAT. EARLIER HIS POLIL REER, WHEN HARD-EDGED NSERVATISM WAS ON THE RISE, CRIST WAS KNOWN AS “CHA GANG CHARLIE” FOR BACKG EXTREME PUNISHMENTS FOR NVICTED FELONS. NOW HE’S BETTER KNOWN FOR HIS EFFORTS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVE THE EVERGLAS. THERE’S LTLE DOUBT THAT CRIST LOOKS HIMSELF THE MIRROR EVERY MORNG AND SE A FUTURE PRINT. SO WHY NOT N FOR REELECTN AS ERNOR?SPENDG HAS CREASED STEADILY THROUGHOUT CRIST’S TENURE, YET HE HAS MANAGED TO AVOID RAISG TAX. NORMALLY THIS IS A FEAT THAT N ONLY BE PULLED OFF DURG A BOOM, BUT OBAMA’S STIMUL PACKAGE GAVE THIS STRATEGY, IF YOU N LL THAT, A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. BACKG THE STIMUL BILL WASN’T JT ABOUT HIGH-FIVG A POPULAR PRINT. IT WAS A WAY TO KEEP FLORIDA’S PONZI SCHEME GOG. BUT BEE THE STATE’S ENOMY IS STILL SKG TO THE MARSHY EP, ENOMIC PA IS GUARANTEED TO SANDBAG WHOEVER SERV AS ERNOR FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. CRIST, WHO LOV TO BE LOVED, TENDS TO MAKE SURE THAT ’S NOT HIM.REIHAN SALAM IS A FELLOW AT THE NEW AMERI FOUNDATN AND THE -THOR OF GRAND NEW PARTY.XTRA INSIGHT: THE DAILY BEAST'S JASON BELLI: DID A DOCUMENTARY CLAIMG TO 'OUT' POLICIANS GET IT RIGHT? REIHAN SALAM
• IS GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST GAY? SHOULD WE CARE?
• “THERE’S EVIL OUT THERE”: REP. CHARLIE CRIST ON FLORIDA, DESANTIS, AND DISNEYFLORIDA IS GROUND ZERO FOR THE CURRENT ROUND OF THE NATN’S CULTURE WARS, BUT THIS DEMOCRATIC NGRSMAN IS…OPTIMISTIC. “I BELIEVE GOOD WILL TRIUMPH OVER BAD.”BY JOE HAGANAPRIL 8, 2022THE TAMPA PRI WAS HELD THE WAKE OF THE PASSAGE OF FLORIDA'S NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL, MARCH 26, 2022 TAMPA, FLORIDA. BY OCTAV JON/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS WEEK INSI THE HIVE HOST JOE HAGAN TALKS TO FLORIDA NGRSMAN CHARLIE CRIST, FORMER REPUBLIN AND OIME ERNOR, ABOUT THE CULTURE WARS EMANATG OM HIS HOME STATE AND OM GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SPECIFILLY. AS DESANTIS PASS DISCRIMATORY NEW LAWS TARGETG GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE, GENERATG CULTURAL-WAR BILE FOR A POTENTIAL PRINTIAL N, CRIST IS BETTG DESANTIS IS A “PAPER TIGER” WHO IS WEAKER THAN HE APPEARS. “I THK HE’S TERRIBLY VULNERABLE,” HE SAYS. “[HIS] SUPPORT IS A E WI AND AN CH EP.” TAKG A PAGE OM JOE BIN’S PLAYBOOK AGAST DONALD TMP 2020, CRIST THKS VOTERS SECRETLY WANT CIVILY OVER BULLYG, DISNEY OVER DESANTIS, EVEN IF CURRENT POLLG SHOWS DESANTIS TROUNCG CRIST A THEORETIL MATCHUP. “I’M AN OPTIMIST, I’M IALISTIC, AND I BELIEVE GOOD WILL TRIUMPH OVER BAD,” CRIST SAYS. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — ​​FOX NEWS HOSTS ENTERTAED PUT-FRIENDLY TALKG POTS. THEN THEIR COLLEAGU WERE KILLED UKRAE— THE LIFE AND CONFSNS OF MOB CHEF DAVID RUGGER— KREML KEEPS BLURRG ITS RED LE AROUND NUCLEAR WAR— CALLS FOR RECALS, RIGNATNS, AND EVEN IMPEACHMENT: DEMOCRATS ESLATE ETHICS CAMPAIGN AROUND CLARENCE THOMAS— TWO UKRAIAN AP JOURNALISTS CAPTURE THE MOST DEVASTATG MOMENTS OF WAR— TMP: IF I WAS PRINT I’D THREATEN TO DROP A NUCLEAR BOMB ON RSIA— WHAT WILL DEMS DO IF BIN DON’T RUN?— ORGI, BEHEADGS, JEWISH SPACE LASERS: EVERYTHG KEV MCCARTHY HAS HAD TO “SPEAK” TO REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS ABOUT— THE TTH BEHD REPUBLINS’ VILE QUTNG OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON— FROM THE ARCHIVE: MOLLY BLOOM’S HOE OF CARDS— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLJOE HAGAN

CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO ALLEGATNS OF GAY AFFAIRS REVEALED IN JIM GREER INVTIGATN

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has rpond to allegatns that he paid two men to nceal gay told WTSP of Tampa Bay the charg -- revealed documents relatg to the vtigatn of former Republin Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer -- are "a bunch of lnal li.

[Warng: graphic language below]The gay allegatns agast Crist first surfaced a Florida Department of Law Enforcement Invtigative Report ntag tails on an exchange between Chase and John Man, whose law firm Crist works at Florida:Chase had ntacted Man, as Chase believed Man was the attorney reprentg Crist, to set up a time where Chase uld pose Crist. Charlie Crist was a homosexual and had homosexual relatnships wh at least two men who were paid to leave the state to avoid embarrassg then Governor Crist. Governor Crist attemptg to n people over while toxited and operatg a golf allegedly told Chase that his accatns were nothg more than flammatory remarks tend to embarrass Crist and that even if the former ernor were gay, they still wouldn't relate to the charg Greer fac or nstute grounds for impeachment.

FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS GAY AND DNK — AND OTHER UNFOUND ALLEGATNS

The former state GOP chair has nied that was the is expected to face trial on July, a look back at gay sex sndals:10 Gay Sex SndalsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. That havg been said, let's relish , Crist is gay and had affairs wh at least two men — both of whom he paid off to leave the state. Charlie Crist is actually a rampant dnk and closeted homosexual, but we do know that former Republin Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer is a sperate, sperate man.

CHARLIE CRIST ACCED OF GAY AFFAIRS, DNKEN RAMPAG

So, Greer's lawyers have cid to publicly air accatns that Crist had gay affairs, tried to n over people while dnk drivg a golf rt, and once tried to kiss Greer himself. It's alleged he ed a fundraisg pany, Victory Strategi LLC, to divert about $100, 000 om the RPOF to his own ni he had any knowledge of this happeng, so Greer's lawyer, Damon Chase, leaked the followg allegatns to a Tampa news statn:Crist paid two men he had gay relatnships wh to leave the once tried to kiss Greer at a Beverly Hill HotelCrist was a big dnk who had his secury tail ver up embarrassg episos while he was once tried to n over people while dnk drivg a golf rmed Crist's lawyer, John Man, that he would brg up the allegatns unls Crist agreed to change his ttimony.

CHARLIE CRIST’S WHOPPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ MISSTEP

Charlie Crist, currently a Democratic ndidate for ernor, has apologized for his prr stance agast gay marriage when he was Florida’s Republin ernor. In fact, Crist has tried to portray his evolutn as beg le wh that of Print Barack Obama, who me out favor of gay marriage 2012 after favorg civil unns. Charlie Crist’s flip flop on gay marriage.

In May 2013, Crist me out support of gay marriage on Facebook. That was a reversal om 2008 when he voted for a state nstutnal ban on gay marriage. Gay marriage advot view both civil unns and domtic partnerships as ferr to marriage.

The nstutnal amendment the works 2005 banned gay marriage but also clud a phrase terpreted by some gay rights advot and lawyers to ban civil unns, too -- that "no other legal unn that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or regnized. Watermark, a Central Florida gay and lbian publitn, endorsed Crist the homtretch of the Republin primary cg his support for civil unns.

CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?

What they generally said was would pend on how closely such a civil unns law rembled marriage (though advot of gay rights told they qutned the pot of draftg a civil unns law that would be so weak as to pass that tt). Crist told CNN that he had supported a ban on gay marriage but add (once aga) that he's a "live-and-let-live kd of guy.

"It simply isn’t fair to say that someone who vot on a nstutnal amendment that has both provisns that he supported (prohibn on gay marriage) and provisns that he opposed (prohibns on civil unns) necsarily is support of both or agast both, " Geller rpond.

CHARLIE CRIST'S SECRETNO, ’S NOT THAT HE’S GAY, THOUGH THOSE MORS REMA. RATHER, SAYS THE DAILY BEAST’S REIHAN SALAM, THE REPUBLINS’ BT HOPE 2010 MIGHT BE RAILED BY HIS SHABBY ERNG LEGACY.REIHAN SALAMUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 12:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 13, 2009 3:21AM EDT JOE BURBANK, MCT / LANDOV IS HE OR ISN’T HE? AFTER ALMOST TWO S PUBLIC LIFE, FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS STILL ALG WH QUTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUAL PREFERENC. EVERY TIME CRIST IS ASKED IF HE’S GAY, HE GIV THE SAME ANSWER: A SIMPLE NO. THERE’S NOTHG FENSIVE OR GEY ABOUT . BUT THE QUTNS PERSIST NEVERTHELS, EVEN AFTER CRIST MARRIED A STRIKGLY ATTRACTIVE WOMAN LATE LAST YEAR. TO DIEHARD BELIEVERS THE CRIST-IS-CLOSETED THEORY, THE MARRIAGE IS FURTHER EVINCE OF CRIST’S DISHONTY—A NAKED ATTEMPT TO DISTRACT THE VOTG PUBLIC OM THE TTH. SIARLY, A SHORT-LIVED SNDAL OVER A 1989 PATERNY CLAIM AGAST CRIST IS DISMISSED BY THE NSPIRATORIAL AS YET ANOTHER EFFORT TO DUPE FLORIDIANS. CRIST IS NOT A NSERVATIVE. WH HIS PERMANENT TAN AND SLICK WHE MANE, HE’S MORE LIKE A KR, GENTLER LAT AMERIN UDILLO, WHO WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN TO BE CHEERED ON BY ADORG THRONGS.LIKE THE NOTN THAT PRINT OBAMA IS A SECRET MLIM, THE IA THAT CRIST IS GAY WILL NEVER GO AWAY. ASSUMG THE NSA HASN’T VENTED A LONG-DISTANCE SEXUAL BRA PROBE THAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT, IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TERME WHETHER OR NOT CRIST’S LATE-NIGHT FANTASI STAR A YOUNG JACLYN SMH OR A YOUNG TOM SELLECK. A NUMBER OF OBSERVERS ARE OPENLY WONRG IF THE GAY MOR WILL SK CRIST’S CHANC OF HOLDG MEL MARTEZ’S SENATE SEAT FOR THE GOP. THE THEORY, ADVANCED MOSTLY ON THE LEFT-OF-CENTER, IS THAT GAY-HATG RIGHT-WGERS WILL TRY TO BRG CRIST DOWN.IT TURNS OUT, THOUGH, THAT FLORIDA’S REPUBLIN PRIMARY VOTERS ARE MORE TERTED ANOTHER “IS HE OR ISN’T HE?”: A GROWG NUMBER OF NSERVATIV WANT TO KNOW IF CRIST IS THE NEXT ARLEN SPECTER. FOR A PARTY ON THE ROP, YOU’D THK REPUBLINS WOULD BE LS TERTED IOLOGIL PURY. WHOUT CRIST OR FORMER GOVERNOR JEB BH THE RACE, DEMOCRATS HAVE LONG EXPECTED MARTEZ’S SEAT TO FALL TO THEIR HANDS LIKE A RIPENED PAPAYA. BUT WH CRIST AS THE REPUBLIN NDIDATE, NO DEMOCRAT STANDS A CHANCE. CRIST’S SENATE N IS ALREADY BEG TOUTED AS THE BEGNG OF A REPUBLIN EBACK. GIVEN THAT GOP HIGH MAND IS PRAISG ALLAH FOR LIVERG CRIST UNTO THEM, ’S WORTH NOTG THAT NSERVATIV ARE BUZZG ABOUT MAR RUB, THE YOUTHFUL FORMER SPEAKER OF THE FLORIDA HOE. A FLUENTLY BILGUAL 37-YEAR-OLD CUBAN-AMERIN EVANGELIL OM A BLUE-LLAR IMMIGRANT BACKGROUND WH AN EX-CHEERLEAR WIFE, FOUR CHILDREN, A EP BELIEF THE HEALG POWER OF TAX CUTS, AND SQUARE-JAWED ALL-AMERIN LOOKS, RUB IS A RITURE OF THE IAL 21ST-CENTURY REPUBLIN. WH POSSIBLE BEHD-THE-SCEN SUPPORT OM JEB BH, RUB IS PLANNG A SRCHED-EARTH MPAIGN AGAST CRIST AS A FIREBRAND NSERVATIVE STANDG AGAST THE FORC OF BIG-ERNMENT RINOISM.AND RUB, A RARE POLIL TALENT, MIGHT ACTUALLY PULL OFF, OR AT LEAST HE MIGHT LEAVE CRIST JT BLOODIED ENOUGH TO GIVE DEMOCRATS THE SENATE SEAT NOVEMBER. GETTG THERE, HOWEVER, WILL MEAN JETTISONG MUCH OF WHAT IS MOST APPEALG ABOUT RUB. IN THE STATE HOE, RUB VELOPED A REPUTATN AS A POLICY WONK TERTED OVERHLG THE STATE’S PUBLIC SECTOR ALONG THE L THAT CENTRIST REPUBLINS HAVE PURSUED THE GOOD-ERNMENT PARADISE THAT IS INDIANA. THIS ISN’T VERY SEXY, AND ISN’T VERY IOLOGIL. BUT DID SUGGT THAT RUB WAS MORE THAN A REAGANE TOMATON. THE SAME GO FOR RUB’S GUTSY AND NTRARIAN CISN TO BACK THE REAL REPUBLIN MAVERICK OF 2008, MIKE HUCKABEE. THERE’S A WORLD WHICH RUB SHOULD ABSOLUTELY CSH AND STROY CRIST—A WORLD WHICH RUB RAN A TLY NOVATIVE, POLICY-HEAVY MPAIGN. INSTEAD, PRSGLY, WE’LL PROBABLY SEE RUB ATTACK CRIST AS A CHARDONNAY-SIPPG SOCIALIST.ONE OF THE KEY NSERVATIVE CHARG AGAST CRIST IS THAT HIS CISN TO BACK PRINT OBAMA’S STIMUL PACKAGE WAS UTTERLY BANKPT. CRIST SEEMED MORE TERTED CURRYG FAVOR WH THE STATE’S ARMY OF PUBLIC-SECTOR WORKERS THAN KEEPG THE FAH WH NSERVATIVE PRCIPL. AND HONTLY, THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT. CRIST IS NOT A NSERVATIVE. WH HIS PERMANENT TAN AND SLICK WHE MANE, HE’S MORE LIKE A KR, GENTLER LAT AMERIN UDILLO, WHO WANTS NOTHG MORE THAN TO BE CHEERED ON BY ADORG THRONGS. CRIST WOULD BE RIGHT AT HOME WH JUAN AND EVA PERON, DANCG THE NIGHT AWAY AND PROMISG EE T-BONE STEAKS TO THE IMPOVERISHED MASS. AS ERNOR, CRIST HAS ENJOYED TREMENDO POPULARY—HE HAS OBAMA-LIKE JOB-APPROVAL NUMBERS—AND HE’S DONE BY HARDLY EVER MAKG TOUGH LLS.THERE’S NO QUTN THAT FLORIDA IS TRENDG DEMOCRATIC, AND DON’T HELP THAT THE STATE’S ENOMY IS SKG TO THE MARSHY EP OM WHENCE ME. CRIST IS KEENLY AWARE OF THIS, AND HE’S MOVED ACRDGLY. IN FLH TIM, A CENT NUMBER OF FLORIDA’S MT-W LATOS, NOTABLY MIAMI’S HIGHLY FLUENTIAL CUBAN-AMERIN MUNY, WERE OPEN TO SMALL-ERNMENT REPUBLINS. A PUNISHG WAVE OF FORECLOSUR—WHICH H LATO FAI PARTICULARLY HARD—HAS CHANGED ALL THAT. EARLIER HIS POLIL REER, WHEN HARD-EDGED NSERVATISM WAS ON THE RISE, CRIST WAS KNOWN AS “CHA GANG CHARLIE” FOR BACKG EXTREME PUNISHMENTS FOR NVICTED FELONS. NOW HE’S BETTER KNOWN FOR HIS EFFORTS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVE THE EVERGLAS. THERE’S LTLE DOUBT THAT CRIST LOOKS HIMSELF THE MIRROR EVERY MORNG AND SE A FUTURE PRINT. SO WHY NOT N FOR REELECTN AS ERNOR?SPENDG HAS CREASED STEADILY THROUGHOUT CRIST’S TENURE, YET HE HAS MANAGED TO AVOID RAISG TAX. NORMALLY THIS IS A FEAT THAT N ONLY BE PULLED OFF DURG A BOOM, BUT OBAMA’S STIMUL PACKAGE GAVE THIS STRATEGY, IF YOU N LL THAT, A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. BACKG THE STIMUL BILL WASN’T JT ABOUT HIGH-FIVG A POPULAR PRINT. IT WAS A WAY TO KEEP FLORIDA’S PONZI SCHEME GOG. BUT BEE THE STATE’S ENOMY IS STILL SKG TO THE MARSHY EP, ENOMIC PA IS GUARANTEED TO SANDBAG WHOEVER SERV AS ERNOR FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. CRIST, WHO LOV TO BE LOVED, TENDS TO MAKE SURE THAT ’S NOT HIM.REIHAN SALAM IS A FELLOW AT THE NEW AMERI FOUNDATN AND THE -THOR OF GRAND NEW PARTY.XTRA INSIGHT: THE DAILY BEAST'S JASON BELLI: DID A DOCUMENTARY CLAIMG TO 'OUT' POLICIANS GET IT RIGHT? REIHAN SALAM

When asked about his changg stance on gay marriage, Crist said, "I always supported civil unns.

In fact a gay publitn endorsed him the Republin primary 2006 bee of his stance on civil unns. But Crist sacrified his support for civil unns by votg for an anti-gay-marriage amendment that uld have also banned civil unns.

Miami Herald’s Gay South Florida blog, "Charlie Crist tells CNN he supports a nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage, " Aug. PoliFact, "After votg for a ban, Charlie Crist now backs gay marriage, " May 9, 2013. Tampa Bay Tim, "Anti-gay marriage proposal on the move, " Aug.

IS GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST GAY? SHOULD WE CARE?

AP, "Jtic qutn challenge to gay marriage amendment, " Feb.

“THERE’S EVIL OUT THERE”: REP. CHARLIE CRIST ON FLORIDA, DESANTIS, AND DISNEYFLORIDA IS GROUND ZERO FOR THE CURRENT ROUND OF THE NATN’S CULTURE WARS, BUT THIS DEMOCRATIC NGRSMAN IS…OPTIMISTIC. “I BELIEVE GOOD WILL TRIUMPH OVER BAD.”BY JOE HAGANAPRIL 8, 2022THE TAMPA PRI WAS HELD THE WAKE OF THE PASSAGE OF FLORIDA'S NTROVERSIAL "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL, MARCH 26, 2022 TAMPA, FLORIDA. BY OCTAV JON/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS WEEK INSI THE HIVE HOST JOE HAGAN TALKS TO FLORIDA NGRSMAN CHARLIE CRIST, FORMER REPUBLIN AND OIME ERNOR, ABOUT THE CULTURE WARS EMANATG OM HIS HOME STATE AND OM GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS SPECIFILLY. AS DESANTIS PASS DISCRIMATORY NEW LAWS TARGETG GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE, GENERATG CULTURAL-WAR BILE FOR A POTENTIAL PRINTIAL N, CRIST IS BETTG DESANTIS IS A “PAPER TIGER” WHO IS WEAKER THAN HE APPEARS. “I THK HE’S TERRIBLY VULNERABLE,” HE SAYS. “[HIS] SUPPORT IS A E WI AND AN CH EP.” TAKG A PAGE OM JOE BIN’S PLAYBOOK AGAST DONALD TMP 2020, CRIST THKS VOTERS SECRETLY WANT CIVILY OVER BULLYG, DISNEY OVER DESANTIS, EVEN IF CURRENT POLLG SHOWS DESANTIS TROUNCG CRIST A THEORETIL MATCHUP. “I’M AN OPTIMIST, I’M IALISTIC, AND I BELIEVE GOOD WILL TRIUMPH OVER BAD,” CRIST SAYS. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — ​​FOX NEWS HOSTS ENTERTAED PUT-FRIENDLY TALKG POTS. THEN THEIR COLLEAGU WERE KILLED UKRAE— THE LIFE AND CONFSNS OF MOB CHEF DAVID RUGGER— KREML KEEPS BLURRG ITS RED LE AROUND NUCLEAR WAR— CALLS FOR RECALS, RIGNATNS, AND EVEN IMPEACHMENT: DEMOCRATS ESLATE ETHICS CAMPAIGN AROUND CLARENCE THOMAS— TWO UKRAIAN AP JOURNALISTS CAPTURE THE MOST DEVASTATG MOMENTS OF WAR— TMP: IF I WAS PRINT I’D THREATEN TO DROP A NUCLEAR BOMB ON RSIA— WHAT WILL DEMS DO IF BIN DON’T RUN?— ORGI, BEHEADGS, JEWISH SPACE LASERS: EVERYTHG KEV MCCARTHY HAS HAD TO “SPEAK” TO REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS ABOUT— THE TTH BEHD REPUBLINS’ VILE QUTNG OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON— FROM THE ARCHIVE: MOLLY BLOOM’S HOE OF CARDS— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLJOE HAGAN

Tampa Bay Tim, "Crist: gay civil unns ‘fe, ’" July 29, 2006. Palm Beach Post, "Crist rejects Gallagher’s ll to disavowal endorsement by gay rights publitn, " Sept. Miami Herald, "Crist: gay-weddg ban wast GOP funds, " Feb.

Tampa Bay Tim, "Gay marriage on ballot, " Feb.