Alternatively titled, "Bud Chiles is a Selfish Bastard".
Here's the rundown:
- Our state is the most gerrymandered in the union. We have a lot more Democrats than GOPers in the state, but our legislature is OVERWHELMINGLY GOP.
- Teabag candidate Rick Scott has a TON of money from defrauding Medicare patients and is vying our AG for the GOPer nomination.
- Bud Chiles is a failed politician who is trying to live up to his famous Democratic father's name. He couldn't beat Dem. candidate Alex Sink in the primary so he is running as an indie.
Caught up? Now here's the problem:
www.flapolitics.com:
With Scott as the GOP nominee – and his nearly $30 million ad blitz has vaulted him into the lead in the Republican primary – he gets 29 percent, Sink 27 percent and independent Bud Chiles 14 percent.
With McCollum as the Republican nominee, McCollum gets 27 percent, Sink 26 percent and Chiles 14 percent. Scott leads McCollum by 11 percent in the GOP primary
Rick Scott is a bona-fide criminal, and is (of course) backed by the extreme right-wing teabaggers.
And he is winning. That is going to turn purple Florida into a right-wing paradise.
With a right-wing, corrupt teabagger at the helm, there will be THERE WILL BE NOTHING to stop our gerrymandered, far right legislature from making purple Florida into a wingut paradise.
Arizona's anti-brown people law? Rick is calling for a special session to implement it. Even though it has ruined their economy, and even though illegal immigration IS NOT A PROBLEM in Florida!! (I know brown people are all the same to the GOP, but illegal Mexicans are a rarity here. We have Cubans, which become legal if they touch land, and Puerto Ricans, which were citizens last I checked.)
The Gulf Oil Spill that has already tarred some our beached? Scott supports coastal drilling. With wingnuts in our legislature who favor drilling even in the Everglades, its goodbye pristine waters.
First trimester abortion? Scott is so twisted he supports the forced rape bill that was narrowly defeated. Even some GOPers balked at that. (Some).
The anti-teacher law that Crist vetoed? Well, you get the point.
All of this because Bud Chiles is siphoning off votes from Alex Sink. This allows Rick Scott spring over the top and wreck our state.
If he truly cared about Florida and its citizens, he would back out and save us from the certain devastation that a Glenn Beck-run government would bring us. But that would be putting people and principles ahead of ego...and that is something bad politicians don't know how to do. That is why I know Sarah Palin, who should know she has no business running a fruit stand much less a government, is going to run in 2012. Because some people want to BE something, not DO something.
Bud sees the numbers. Bud knows, and doesn't care. He is a failed politician who desperately wants to BE somebody, but will only be a GOP stooge that will bring the failed policies of the past to our vulnerable state along with a radical right-wing social agenda.
The only thing that can help us is an informed voter. Here in Florida.
GOD help us all.
Fight for Alex Sink
Fight for Fair Districts in Florida
(VOTE for Amendments 5 and 6 this November! But vote NO on Amendment 7, which the legislature put in to undo 5 and 6. Yes, they are bastards like that.)