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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'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
- THE MSY, SORDID STORY OF JIM GREER, CHARLIE CRIST’S MAN TO A FLTRG OF TTHIN ‘THE CHAIRMAN,’ A NEW BOOK ABOUT JIM GREER, THE FORMER FLORIDA GOP CHAIRMAN UNLOADS ALL MANNER OF GOSSIP ABOUT THE EX-ERNOR—BUT YOU STILL GET A SENSE GREER IS UNR CRIST’S SPELL.RICK WILSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 3:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 29, 2014 6:45AM EDT RTERSTHE CHAIRMAN, THE NEW BOOK ABOUT DISGRACED FORMER FLORIDA REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN JIM GREER, IS A SLOPPY, UGLY MS. FROM THE FIRST PAGE, IS RIDDLED WH SELF-SERVG REVISNIST HISTORY, FACTUAL ERRORS EVEN A PARTICULARLY SLOW-WTED TERN ULD TCH, AND A TONE THAT N ONLY BE SCRIBED AS THE BIG WHE.GREER ON GREER—THE BOOK IS NOMALLY BY PETER GOLENBECK BUT IS SCRIBED THE MIAMI HERALD AS “A 400-PAGE RANT BY GREER” —IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. THE JIM GREER DRAWN ON THE PAG IS A MASTER POLIL STRATEGIST, ANIZER, FUNDRAISER, NEGOTIATOR, FATHER, HBAND, POET, SAGE, AND PHILOSOPHER WHO STRIS THROUGH THIS VOLUME LIKE A GOD, RIGHT UP TO THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL BY FORMER ERNOR CHARLIE CRIST, THE TEA PARTY, AND DELMAR “JUDAS” JOHNSON, GREER’S ONE-TIME AI.THE CHAIRMAN ELIS OVER (WHEN NOT FLATLY MISREPRENTG) THE FANCIAL MALFEASANCE THAT LAND HIM AN 18-MONTH STT THE GULF COUNTY CORRECTNAL FACILY BETIFUL WEWAHCHKA, FLORIDA. THE SNDAL SELF IS SORDID AND PLEX, BUT GREER AND A HANDFUL OF CRIST CRONI LOOTED THE FLORIDA GOP, SPENDG A WAY THAT WOULD PUT DNKEN SAILORS TO SHAME AND SECRETLY SKIMMG OFF A PERCENTAGE OF THE PARTY’S FUNDRAISG TAKE. GREER SAYS CRIST KNEW ABOUT AND EVEN SUGGTED THE SCHEME, BUT CRIST SAYS HE DIDN’T. WHATEVER THE SE, GREER AND CRIST LIVED A WORLD OF RPORATE JETS, FIVE-STAR HOTELS, LIFE-SIZE OIL PATGS, AND UNLIMED BUDGETS.GREER’S NARRATIVE SHOWS LTLE UNRSTANDG OF THE POLIL LEARS, PARTY SYSTEMS, ELECTN LAWS, NSULTANTS, AND DONORS WHO MAKE UP THE REPUBLIN APPARAT FLORIDA. HIS CHARACTERIZATNS OF ALMOST EVERY FLORIDA POLIL FIGURE OTHER THAN CRIST ARE WILDLY ACCURATE, PORTRAYG OLD-LE REAGAN REPUBLINS SUCH AS FORMER REP. BILL MCCOLLUM AS FIRE-BREATHG TEA PARTY MANIACS. HIS SCRIPTNS OF SEN. MAR RUB RANGE OM LGHABLE TO SLANRO. HE GETS NAM, DAT, TL, IOLOGY, AND FLORIDA POLIL HISTORY WRONG TIME AND AGA A WAY A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH ULD ROLVE. THE NARRATIVE PORTRAYS GREER AS CRIST’S MAN TO A FLT. CRIST’S ABIDG NTEMPT FOR NSERVATIVE VOTERS, GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS, AND THE RISG TEA PARTY SWIFTLY FECTS GREER, AND THE TONE OF THE BOOK. GREER NFLAT THE REPUBLIN REBELLN AGAST CRIST’S MISLE AND HIS OWN EXCS WH THE TEA PARTY. IT WASN’T THE TEA PARTY THAT END GREER, WAS RANK-AND-FILE REPUBLINS, WHO SAW GREER ILLEGALLY G PARTY MONEY AN EFFORT TO ELECT CRIST TO THE SENATE, ALL WHILE SPENDG THE PARTY TO THE CP OF BANKPTCY.BUT LET’S BE HONT. NO ONE IS SUFFERG THROUGH THIS MS OF A BOOK TO LEARN ABOUT GREER. WE’RE READG FOR THE CRIST GOSSIP.PEOPLE LACKG DIRECT EXPERIENCE WH CRIST MAY HAVE A HARD TIME GRAPPLG WH GREER’S ACUNT, NO MATTER HOW JAD THEY ARE ABOUT POLICIANS. THE FORMER GOP CHAIRMAN PUTS DOWN ON PAPER THGS ABOUT CRIST THAT HAVE LONG CIRCULATED FLORIDA’S POLIL CIRCL. I HAVE WORKED AGAST CRIST FOR 13 YEARS, AND FLORIDA REPORTERS WILL TELL YOU I’VE NEVER HAD MUCH TERT THE GAY MORS, THE ALLEGATNS OF PAID-OFF BOYIENDS, THE STORI OF E E, TRASHED HOTEL ROOMS, AND EXCSIVE DRKG, THE QUICKIE DIVORCE PLETE WH SEALED URT RERDS, THE ILLEGIMATE DGHTER STORY, OR THE UGLY CTODY BATTLE VOLVG HIS STEPDGHTERS. I’VE PCHED A LOT OF HS ON CRIST, BUT GENERALLY NOT THOSE.GREER PUTS THEM ALL OUT THERE, AND DOG SO PROVIS A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW LEADS FOR MOTIVATED (IF MUCKRAKG) REPORTERS, CLUDG HIS TAKE ON THE ROLE OF CRIST’S FORMER LONGTIME NSIGLIèRE GEE LEMIX KEEPG CRIST’S PERSONAL LIFE OM TERSECTG WH HIS POLIL RISE:“LEMIX DID KNOW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED. HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN CHARGE OF MAKG CHARLIE’S PROBLEMS GO AWAY, SUCH AS DISCSED EARLIER REGARDG THE 2006 MPAIGN AND THE MORS ABOUT TWO ALLEGED GAY LOVERS AND AN ALLEGED OUT-OF-WEDLOCK DGHTER. ACRDG TO GREER, LEMIX HAD KEPT BOTH ISSU OM DAMAGG THE MPAIGN…‘YOU’LL NEVER KNOW WHAT I WENT THROUGH.’ ‘I’M SURE,’ I SAID. TALKG ABOUT THE 2006 GUBERNATORIAL MPAIGN, HE SAID, ‘IT WAS A VERY STRSFUL TIME MY LIFE. THOSE GAY EPTNS ULD HAVE KEPT OM BEG ERNOR.’”IF GREER’S NARRATIVE OF LEMIX’S APPOTMENT BY CRIST TO THE U.S. SENATE IS TE, ’S A REMARKABLE STORY OF GUTSY POLIL BLACKMAIL.TALLAHASSEE IS FULL OF FORMER STAFFERS, NSULTANTS, LOBBYISTS, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE WORKED AROUND, WH, AND FOR CRIST. I MET HIM 1987 ON THE CONNIE MACK FOR U.S SENATE MPAIGN. I DID TELEVISN ADS WH MY THEN-PARTNER ADAM GOODMAN FOR CRIST’S LONG-SHOT U.S. SENATE MPAIGN 1998. MY WIFE WAS CRIST’S CHIEF CABET AI FOR A BRIEF TIME WHILE HE WAS TN MISSNER. EVEN AT THE ZENH OF CRIST’S POPULARY, THERE WAS AN UNRGROUND OF REPUBLINS WHO RPECTED CHARLIE’S POLIL SKILLS BUT FOUND THE MAN BIZARRE AND UNABLE TO ENGAGE NORMAL HUMAN TERACTN OUTSI THE POLIL DOMA. HE WAS ALWAYS AFFABLE BUT ULTIMATELY UNKNOWABLE; TELLECTUALLY CUR BUT FEROCLY AMB.ANYONE WHO KNOWS CRIST AND READS GREER’S PICTN OF HIM WILL BE STCK STANTLY BY S RG OF TTH. CRIST REALLY IS THAT DRIVEN BY NARCISSISM, AMBN, AND PERSONAL VANY. HE REALLY IS A PURELY POLIL CREATURE. THE NSTANT NEEDS, THE DISTERT ERNG, THE SIRE TO AVOID THE HARD LLS, THE PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE STAFF GAM OF WHO’S , WHO’S OUT; ALL OF PASS THE SMELL TT.MOST POLICIANS AREN’T LIKE YOU AND ME, BUT CRIST REALLY IS ANOTHER SPECI OF HUMAN. FOR ALMOST HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE HE HAS LIVED ALONE, WAS MARRIED ONLY MOMENTARILY AS A VERY YOUNG MAN, HAS RARELY HELD A JOB OUTSI POLICS, HAS HAD NO TLY CLOSE IENDS. BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE TO CAROLE ROME, ASI OM POLICS, CRIST’S ONLY LIFELONG MMENT WAS TO HIS AMBN. YOU N SEE ALL ON THE PAG.ANOTHER THG THAT WILL BE FAIAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW CRIST: HIS PLETE DISTERT ANY SUBJECT NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO HIS POLIL AMBNS. GREER NEVER REUNTS CRIST ACTUALLY ERNG OR EVEN ENGAGG ANY KD OF SUBSTANTIVE POLICY BATTL. THAT’S BEE CRIST IS THE SEFIELD OF POLICIANS: A ERNOR ABOUT NOTHG. HIS UAL MPAIGN IS A SLOGAN, A RIVER OF MONEY, AND ENERGETIC, SUPERFICIAL BACKSLAPPG. HE’S DAMN GOOD AT , BUT THAT’S ALL THERE IS. FLORIDA DEMOCRATS NVCED OF CRIST’S SWIFT IOLOGIL NVERSN OM ROCK-RIBBED NSERVATIVE TO OBAMA LIBERAL SHOULD BE UT. HE’S A MAN WHO BELIEV POLICY AS LONG AS GETS HIM TO THE NEXT ELECTN. AFTER THAT, ALL BETS ARE OFF.THE CHAIRMAN IS A MSY, UGLY, SI LOOK AT ONE OF AMERI’S STRANGT POLICIANS. JIM GREER WAS NEVER EQUIPPED TO HANDLE EHER THE NDIDATE HE CHOSE TO SERVE OR THE TEMPTATNS PLACED BEFORE HIM. EVEN NOW, HE IS UNWILLG TO TAKE RPONSIBILY FOR THE VENALY THAT LAND HIM JAIL. GREER’S STORY IS ONE OF A SAD, STROYED MAN LEFT EPLY BTER AT THE WRECKAGE OF HIS LIFE AT THE HANDS OF CRIST. HE KNOWS CRIST ED AND BETRAYED HIM. HE KNOWS CRIST IS A GIFTED, MANIPULATIVE POLIL SOCPATH.BUT CRIST IS NO ORDARY POLIL SOCPATH. SO POWERFUL IS HIS HOLD OVER GREER THAT EVEN TODAY ONE GETS THE SENSE THAT WHEN GREER IS EED OM PRISON, A PART OF HIM WILL BE WAG FOR THE PHONE TO RG AND FOR CRIST’S VOICE TO LL OUT, “MR. CHAIRRRRMANNNNN!” RICK WILSON
- CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?
CHARLIE CRIST RPONDS TO ALLEGATNS OF GAY AFFAIRS REVEALED IN JIM GREER INVTIGATN
Former Governor Rponds To 'Delnal' Allegatns Of Gay Affairs * charlie christ gay *
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.
FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST IS GAY AND DNK — AND OTHER UNFOUND ALLEGATNS
No, ’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. * charlie christ gay *
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. 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.
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. 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 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
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. NewsSutedPOLITICSBin WorldElectnsOpnNatnal SecuryCongrsPay DirtThe New AbnormalTmplandCOUPONSVistaprt CouponsUlta CouponsOffice Depot CouponsAdidas Promo CosWalmart Promo CosH&M CouponsSpanx Promo CosStubHub Promo CosHOMEPAGE0No, ’s not that he’s gay, though those mors rema.
THE MSY, SORDID STORY OF JIM GREER, CHARLIE CRIST’S MAN TO A FLTRG OF TTHIN ‘THE CHAIRMAN,’ A NEW BOOK ABOUT JIM GREER, THE FORMER FLORIDA GOP CHAIRMAN UNLOADS ALL MANNER OF GOSSIP ABOUT THE EX-ERNOR—BUT YOU STILL GET A SENSE GREER IS UNR CRIST’S SPELL.RICK WILSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 3:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 29, 2014 6:45AM EDT RTERSTHE CHAIRMAN, THE NEW BOOK ABOUT DISGRACED FORMER FLORIDA REPUBLIN PARTY CHAIRMAN JIM GREER, IS A SLOPPY, UGLY MS. FROM THE FIRST PAGE, IS RIDDLED WH SELF-SERVG REVISNIST HISTORY, FACTUAL ERRORS EVEN A PARTICULARLY SLOW-WTED TERN ULD TCH, AND A TONE THAT N ONLY BE SCRIBED AS THE BIG WHE.GREER ON GREER—THE BOOK IS NOMALLY BY PETER GOLENBECK BUT IS SCRIBED THE MIAMI HERALD AS “A 400-PAGE RANT BY GREER” —IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. THE JIM GREER DRAWN ON THE PAG IS A MASTER POLIL STRATEGIST, ANIZER, FUNDRAISER, NEGOTIATOR, FATHER, HBAND, POET, SAGE, AND PHILOSOPHER WHO STRIS THROUGH THIS VOLUME LIKE A GOD, RIGHT UP TO THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL BY FORMER ERNOR CHARLIE CRIST, THE TEA PARTY, AND DELMAR “JUDAS” JOHNSON, GREER’S ONE-TIME AI.THE CHAIRMAN ELIS OVER (WHEN NOT FLATLY MISREPRENTG) THE FANCIAL MALFEASANCE THAT LAND HIM AN 18-MONTH STT THE GULF COUNTY CORRECTNAL FACILY BETIFUL WEWAHCHKA, FLORIDA. THE SNDAL SELF IS SORDID AND PLEX, BUT GREER AND A HANDFUL OF CRIST CRONI LOOTED THE FLORIDA GOP, SPENDG A WAY THAT WOULD PUT DNKEN SAILORS TO SHAME AND SECRETLY SKIMMG OFF A PERCENTAGE OF THE PARTY’S FUNDRAISG TAKE. GREER SAYS CRIST KNEW ABOUT AND EVEN SUGGTED THE SCHEME, BUT CRIST SAYS HE DIDN’T. WHATEVER THE SE, GREER AND CRIST LIVED A WORLD OF RPORATE JETS, FIVE-STAR HOTELS, LIFE-SIZE OIL PATGS, AND UNLIMED BUDGETS.GREER’S NARRATIVE SHOWS LTLE UNRSTANDG OF THE POLIL LEARS, PARTY SYSTEMS, ELECTN LAWS, NSULTANTS, AND DONORS WHO MAKE UP THE REPUBLIN APPARAT FLORIDA. HIS CHARACTERIZATNS OF ALMOST EVERY FLORIDA POLIL FIGURE OTHER THAN CRIST ARE WILDLY ACCURATE, PORTRAYG OLD-LE REAGAN REPUBLINS SUCH AS FORMER REP. BILL MCCOLLUM AS FIRE-BREATHG TEA PARTY MANIACS. HIS SCRIPTNS OF SEN. MAR RUB RANGE OM LGHABLE TO SLANRO. HE GETS NAM, DAT, TL, IOLOGY, AND FLORIDA POLIL HISTORY WRONG TIME AND AGA A WAY A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH ULD ROLVE. THE NARRATIVE PORTRAYS GREER AS CRIST’S MAN TO A FLT. CRIST’S ABIDG NTEMPT FOR NSERVATIVE VOTERS, GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS, AND THE RISG TEA PARTY SWIFTLY FECTS GREER, AND THE TONE OF THE BOOK. GREER NFLAT THE REPUBLIN REBELLN AGAST CRIST’S MISLE AND HIS OWN EXCS WH THE TEA PARTY. IT WASN’T THE TEA PARTY THAT END GREER, WAS RANK-AND-FILE REPUBLINS, WHO SAW GREER ILLEGALLY G PARTY MONEY AN EFFORT TO ELECT CRIST TO THE SENATE, ALL WHILE SPENDG THE PARTY TO THE CP OF BANKPTCY.BUT LET’S BE HONT. NO ONE IS SUFFERG THROUGH THIS MS OF A BOOK TO LEARN ABOUT GREER. WE’RE READG FOR THE CRIST GOSSIP.PEOPLE LACKG DIRECT EXPERIENCE WH CRIST MAY HAVE A HARD TIME GRAPPLG WH GREER’S ACUNT, NO MATTER HOW JAD THEY ARE ABOUT POLICIANS. THE FORMER GOP CHAIRMAN PUTS DOWN ON PAPER THGS ABOUT CRIST THAT HAVE LONG CIRCULATED FLORIDA’S POLIL CIRCL. I HAVE WORKED AGAST CRIST FOR 13 YEARS, AND FLORIDA REPORTERS WILL TELL YOU I’VE NEVER HAD MUCH TERT THE GAY MORS, THE ALLEGATNS OF PAID-OFF BOYIENDS, THE STORI OF E E, TRASHED HOTEL ROOMS, AND EXCSIVE DRKG, THE QUICKIE DIVORCE PLETE WH SEALED URT RERDS, THE ILLEGIMATE DGHTER STORY, OR THE UGLY CTODY BATTLE VOLVG HIS STEPDGHTERS. I’VE PCHED A LOT OF HS ON CRIST, BUT GENERALLY NOT THOSE.GREER PUTS THEM ALL OUT THERE, AND DOG SO PROVIS A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW LEADS FOR MOTIVATED (IF MUCKRAKG) REPORTERS, CLUDG HIS TAKE ON THE ROLE OF CRIST’S FORMER LONGTIME NSIGLIèRE GEE LEMIX KEEPG CRIST’S PERSONAL LIFE OM TERSECTG WH HIS POLIL RISE:“LEMIX DID KNOW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED. HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN CHARGE OF MAKG CHARLIE’S PROBLEMS GO AWAY, SUCH AS DISCSED EARLIER REGARDG THE 2006 MPAIGN AND THE MORS ABOUT TWO ALLEGED GAY LOVERS AND AN ALLEGED OUT-OF-WEDLOCK DGHTER. ACRDG TO GREER, LEMIX HAD KEPT BOTH ISSU OM DAMAGG THE MPAIGN…‘YOU’LL NEVER KNOW WHAT I WENT THROUGH.’ ‘I’M SURE,’ I SAID. TALKG ABOUT THE 2006 GUBERNATORIAL MPAIGN, HE SAID, ‘IT WAS A VERY STRSFUL TIME MY LIFE. THOSE GAY EPTNS ULD HAVE KEPT OM BEG ERNOR.’”IF GREER’S NARRATIVE OF LEMIX’S APPOTMENT BY CRIST TO THE U.S. SENATE IS TE, ’S A REMARKABLE STORY OF GUTSY POLIL BLACKMAIL.TALLAHASSEE IS FULL OF FORMER STAFFERS, NSULTANTS, LOBBYISTS, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE WORKED AROUND, WH, AND FOR CRIST. I MET HIM 1987 ON THE CONNIE MACK FOR U.S SENATE MPAIGN. I DID TELEVISN ADS WH MY THEN-PARTNER ADAM GOODMAN FOR CRIST’S LONG-SHOT U.S. SENATE MPAIGN 1998. MY WIFE WAS CRIST’S CHIEF CABET AI FOR A BRIEF TIME WHILE HE WAS TN MISSNER. EVEN AT THE ZENH OF CRIST’S POPULARY, THERE WAS AN UNRGROUND OF REPUBLINS WHO RPECTED CHARLIE’S POLIL SKILLS BUT FOUND THE MAN BIZARRE AND UNABLE TO ENGAGE NORMAL HUMAN TERACTN OUTSI THE POLIL DOMA. HE WAS ALWAYS AFFABLE BUT ULTIMATELY UNKNOWABLE; TELLECTUALLY CUR BUT FEROCLY AMB.ANYONE WHO KNOWS CRIST AND READS GREER’S PICTN OF HIM WILL BE STCK STANTLY BY S RG OF TTH. CRIST REALLY IS THAT DRIVEN BY NARCISSISM, AMBN, AND PERSONAL VANY. HE REALLY IS A PURELY POLIL CREATURE. THE NSTANT NEEDS, THE DISTERT ERNG, THE SIRE TO AVOID THE HARD LLS, THE PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE STAFF GAM OF WHO’S , WHO’S OUT; ALL OF PASS THE SMELL TT.MOST POLICIANS AREN’T LIKE YOU AND ME, BUT CRIST REALLY IS ANOTHER SPECI OF HUMAN. FOR ALMOST HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE HE HAS LIVED ALONE, WAS MARRIED ONLY MOMENTARILY AS A VERY YOUNG MAN, HAS RARELY HELD A JOB OUTSI POLICS, HAS HAD NO TLY CLOSE IENDS. BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE TO CAROLE ROME, ASI OM POLICS, CRIST’S ONLY LIFELONG MMENT WAS TO HIS AMBN. YOU N SEE ALL ON THE PAG.ANOTHER THG THAT WILL BE FAIAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW CRIST: HIS PLETE DISTERT ANY SUBJECT NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO HIS POLIL AMBNS. GREER NEVER REUNTS CRIST ACTUALLY ERNG OR EVEN ENGAGG ANY KD OF SUBSTANTIVE POLICY BATTL. THAT’S BEE CRIST IS THE SEFIELD OF POLICIANS: A ERNOR ABOUT NOTHG. HIS UAL MPAIGN IS A SLOGAN, A RIVER OF MONEY, AND ENERGETIC, SUPERFICIAL BACKSLAPPG. HE’S DAMN GOOD AT , BUT THAT’S ALL THERE IS. FLORIDA DEMOCRATS NVCED OF CRIST’S SWIFT IOLOGIL NVERSN OM ROCK-RIBBED NSERVATIVE TO OBAMA LIBERAL SHOULD BE UT. HE’S A MAN WHO BELIEV POLICY AS LONG AS GETS HIM TO THE NEXT ELECTN. AFTER THAT, ALL BETS ARE OFF.THE CHAIRMAN IS A MSY, UGLY, SI LOOK AT ONE OF AMERI’S STRANGT POLICIANS. JIM GREER WAS NEVER EQUIPPED TO HANDLE EHER THE NDIDATE HE CHOSE TO SERVE OR THE TEMPTATNS PLACED BEFORE HIM. EVEN NOW, HE IS UNWILLG TO TAKE RPONSIBILY FOR THE VENALY THAT LAND HIM JAIL. GREER’S STORY IS ONE OF A SAD, STROYED MAN LEFT EPLY BTER AT THE WRECKAGE OF HIS LIFE AT THE HANDS OF CRIST. HE KNOWS CRIST ED AND BETRAYED HIM. HE KNOWS CRIST IS A GIFTED, MANIPULATIVE POLIL SOCPATH.BUT CRIST IS NO ORDARY POLIL SOCPATH. SO POWERFUL IS HIS HOLD OVER GREER THAT EVEN TODAY ONE GETS THE SENSE THAT WHEN GREER IS EED OM PRISON, A PART OF HIM WILL BE WAG FOR THE PHONE TO RG AND FOR CRIST’S VOICE TO LL OUT, “MR. CHAIRRRRMANNNNN!” RICK WILSON
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CHARLIE CRIST ISN'T GAY, OKAY?
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