I don't know if there ia any truth to this story or not. But with three days to go, someone ought to check it out. Charlie Crist is the GOP candidate for Governor of Florida. He is opposed to gay marriage and other gay rights. The story line below suggests that he has been involved in an affair with a young GOP activist. There is an associated rumor that Crist and Mark Foley used to be roommates. In general, I do not think that a person's sexual orientation should be an issue, but many of Crist's supporters do. And, more importantly, so, apparently does Crist. The report below should be checked out by the mainstream media. - Is anyone listening?
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Crist Denies Trysts
GOP frontrunner: I have never had sex with a man
By Bob Norman
Article Published Oct 26, 2006
A young rising star in the Republican Party has boasted to witnesses of his sexual relationship with Charlie Crist, the frontrunner in the Florida governor's race who has repeatedly denied that he is gay.
The GOP staffer, 21-year-old Jason Wetherington, told friends at separate social functions in August that he had sex with Crist, according to two credible and independent sources who heard Wetherington make the claim first-hand.
Wetherington, who recently worked as a field director for U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris and currently works for state representative Ellyn Bodganoff's reelection campaign, also named a man whom he said is Crist's long-term partner, a convicted thief named Bruce Carlton Jordan who also recently worked for Harris in her long-shot Senate bid.
The rest of this first story can be seen on the Broward Palm Beach News sige at http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/Issues/2006-10-26/news/norman_full.html
The second story is below:
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From browardpalmbeach.com
Originally published by Broward-Palm Beach New Times 2006-11-02
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Crist Denies Trysts II
Sworn testimony backs up claims that Bruce Jordan boasted of his affair with Charlie Crist.
By Bob Norman
A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a convicted felon and former travel aide to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris.
Last week, I reported that 21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington had claimed to credible sources that he had a sexual relationship with the 50-year-old Crist and had identified the frontrunner's "long-term partner" as Bruce Carlton Jordan, who remains on state probation after serving a 30-day jail sentence for a conviction on grand theft and forgery charges.
Crist has repeatedly denied that he is gay and, with the election looming next week, has recently become more vocal in his stance against adoption by gay couples and in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.
Crist's campaign spokeswoman, Vivian Myrtetus, responded to my questions with an e-mail: "Wild, false rumors like this one are a sad commentary on the politics of personal destruction which is so hurtful to the political process," she wrote. "This is a completely false story from a convicted felon."
Evidence, however, is piling up that he and Jordan, whom the GOP candidate claims not to remember ever having met, had a relationship and that his Republican opponent Tom Gallagher knew about it prior to the September 5 primary vote.
Much of the information surrounding the relationship came, unwittingly and somewhat ironically, from the Harris U.S. Senate campaign, where Jordan worked as the congresswoman's personal travel aide not long after his release from jail in February.
The rest of the story can be read at http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/Issues/2006-11-02/news/norman.html
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