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Monday December 10, 2012 · 8:11 AM PST

2012/12/10 · 08:11

The political news in Florida for the next few days will be the party-changeover by former Republican, former no-party-affiliation, now-Democrat Charlie Crist.

The Facebook posts and tweets from loyal, long-time Democrats have all been roughly the same: an enthusiastic welcoming of the former Florida Governor to the Democratic Party. Many instruct me to welcome Governor Crist with "open arms."

I've been a Charlie Crist critic for long enough to have earned a little street cred with those same folks who would so vigorously welcome a guy we called "Empty Chair Charlie" not all that long ago.

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Thursday January 12, 2012 · 5:41 PM PST

2012/01/12 · 17:41

I'm here asking for you to help Keith Fitzgerald again.

Sure, I could give you a post about how Congressman Vern Buchanan is on CREW's "most corrupt" list, how he's being investigated by DOJ, by the House Ethics Committee, what the FEC said about him.

But you know all of this. Or most of it. Or you should.

Keith Fitzgerald is an honest guy, a decent guy, and here's the thing: he would be the kind of Congressman you'd actually want in Congress. He's an independent voice. He believe in accountability. Yeah, he's a Democrat, but he knows how to work with the other side. When he was a State Representative, the Auxiliary Arm of the Florida GOP Florida Chamber of Commerce gave him a 100% rating. He's been strong on protecting the environment (was one of the loudest voices against off-shore drilling).

He needs 100 donors by Monday.

Can you help him do it? I know he'll appreciate anything you can do.

Thanks -- let's get Keith to his goal.

Keith Fitzgerald for Congress in the Florida 13th

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Thursday October 06, 2011 · 7:23 PM PDT

2011/10/06 · 19:23

Keith is running for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District.

He is going up against Vern Buchanan, a guy who is more notorious for his corruption and graft than his Congressional record.

This is going to be one hell of a match.

I can't wait.

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Monday October 25, 2010 · 8:02 PM PDT

2010/10/25 · 20:02

Sometimes it's better just to let a campaign speak for itself. This is a re-print, in full, of the GoFitzGo campaign journal addressing the nasty attack ads coming from Ray Pilon and the RPOF.

# # # #

Some things never change. For three campaigns in a row, Keith’s opponent has looked him in the eye, shaken his hand and vowed not to resort to nasty attack ads. "Oh, you won’t see any of that stuff from me!"

But once again, Keith has an opponent who is running a highly negative campaign and, as in the past, the claims are based on distortions, innuendo and lies But because you deserve honesty, let’s break it down and get to the facts.

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 12:54 PM PDT

2010/07/07 · 12:54

If this is even close to true, Bud Chiles needs to end his independent bid for governor of Florida now:

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26 votes Show Results

What Should Bud Chiles Do?

26 votes Vote Now!

What Should Bud Chiles Do?

Drop out and endorse Alex Sink

19 votes

Stay in and lose when Alex wins

0 votes

Stay in and lose when hospital grifter Rick Scott wins

1 vote

Stay in and lose when Captain Vanilla Bill McCollum wins

1 vote

Stay in and face certain public humilation at the wreckage of his personal finances

1 vote

Drop out and deal with the wreckage of his personal finances

4 votes

Martinez Preps to Bolt -- and Crist Gets Set

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Monday February 02, 2009 · 5:17 PM PST

2009/02/02 · 17:17

Well, it didn't take much to see this coming: Senator Mel Martinez is getting ready to leave the Senate early, and you can bet Empty Chair Charlie Crist will once again, well, leave a chair empty to make a play for that seat, almost immediately if not fairly soon. And I'm not just patting myself on the back because I predicted as much. Read More

Take Action: We Deserve Honesty (Go Fitz Go!)

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 2:13 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 14:13

As you know, I'm a big supporter of Representative Keith Fitzgerald down in Florida State House District 69.

In 2006, he and his campaign manager, Duncan (my wife), ran one hell of a race, and won in a predominantly Republican district. He won despite the fact that they ran a very nasty campaign against him, at one point saying he was going to shred the fabric of democracy, or something along those lines. Keith responded by running a clean campaign, talking about the issues, and about what he was going to do in Tallahassee.

This made the Republicans very, very angry.

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 11:19 AM PDT

2008/08/12 · 11:19

Having worked at the Department of Justice, I was particularly torqued about the hiring scandal under the wildly incompetent Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. I thought Monica Goodling, the criminally corrupt White House Liaison who interviewed people and asked questions like "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" and "Why are you a Republican?" represented the worst of Washington, and, frankly, broke the law.

Turns out I was right

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 5:04 PM PDT

2008/07/09 · 17:04

You know that Florida Representative Keith Fitzgerald is a candidate I've volunteered for in the past, and will volunteer for again in the future. He is one of the smart, pragmatic Democratic voices in the Florida legislature, and we need to do everything we can to help him. From the message Keith sent out today:

after the jump

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Friday May 23, 2008 · 6:07 PM PDT

2008/05/23 · 18:07

To date, I feel I have been as fair as I possibly could with Hillary Clinton, for whom I used to work and for whom I used to have a great deal of respect. She mathematically lost the Democratic nomination days ago, and the whole contest, in actuality, much earlier.

Senator Clinton crossed a line a few weeks ago saying that she was the candidate of "hard-working Americans, white Americans," and everybody was up in arms for a time. People were almost more shocked that she didn't have the decency to go away then.

Now she has crossed yet another line that makes that first line -- and all the lines before that -- seem like they were set in a whole different universe.

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 6:37 PM PDT

2008/04/23 · 18:37

I have several friends who, like me, support Senator Barack Obama. Please understand that I use the word "support" in the broadest sense. To my way of thinking, support can mean a lot of things, and many people in politics assume it to mean financial support. In this particular instance I mean it to mean that I have voted for Senator Obama in the Florida primary, and in that way I have supported him. Should he win the nomination, I'll likely write him a modest check.

Those friends -- and me too, a little bit -- have been in something of a funk over the election lately. Perhaps we can chalk that up to knowing all along how Pennsylvania would likely turn out. But I have friends who support Senator Clinton, too, and there's something going on there as well, only it's not a general malaise. It's more like an anger. A bitter, furious anger.

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 10:36 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 10:36

With apologies to lowbrow readers of the Florida Progressive Coalition blog and DailyKos, the title of this post is not a reference to the current news out of the Florida Senate on... well, fake bull testicles you hang from your truck bumper.

Instead, I'd like to direct your attention to the current situation in the Florida House. Instead of discussing anatomically correct automotives, the Democrats wanted to carry on a debate about FCAT standards. I think Floridians, progressive or conservative, believe that this should be a worthwhile and in-depth discussion. Not the Republicans. They pulled a move to limit the debate on this issue.

Justifiably outraged, Democrats played their own hand and have now called for every bill on the agenda to be read, effectively shutting down business (except for the reading. They started with an eighty-six page bill on condominium law.) Rubio has had the clerks lock the doors and as of this hour, shut off Blackberry service for the Members as well as internet access.

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9 votes Show Results

Why will you add replica bull testicles to your vehicle (Floridians exempted as it is now a crime to do so)?

9 votes Vote Now!

Why will you add replica bull testicles to your vehicle (Floridians exempted as it is now a crime to do so)?

They will compliment my "Calvin" peeing on the Ford logo nicely

1 vote

They will compliment my "Ain't Skeered" bumper sticker nicely

0 votes

They will compliment my gun rack

0 votes

They will compliment the dead deer on the hood of my truck

0 votes

Because that is just the right look for my Prius

2 votes

To offend my friends and neighbors

1 vote

How dare you ask me that -- now I'm bitter.

5 votes

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