Jeff Greene may be a billionaire, having scored big betting against the housing market, but when all's said and done, he'll join the pantheon of stupidest candidates ever.
Check this out. A former deckhand of one of Greene's yachts said his boss (in addition to being abusive), took a joy ride to party down in Cuba. This being Florida, that's akin to chillin' with Osama Bin Laden.
"This guy Jeff Greene threw tons of money into new diving gear, but the crew's basic equipment — food and supplies — he didn't want to spend any money on. Summerwind has a terrible reputation,'' Hoffman said. "Mr. Greene's yacht is known to be a party yacht. When it went to Cuba, everybody talked about the vomit caked all over the sides from all the partying going on."
Kendrick Meek brought this up in a debate Monday night:
"Didn't you just take your yacht down to Cuba recently, or is that not true?" Greene was asked.
"No, the yacht went to Cuba," Greene said.
"Oh, the yacht went to Cuba but you didn't?" Greene was asked.
"No," Greene said..
Oops, said Greene's campaign manager, Greene "misspoke"!
"During the debate Jeff misspoke,'' Vizcaino said after receiving media inquiries about the trip. ``What he meant to say was that in 2007, he went on the boat from Honduras to the Bahamas, and en route the boat had a hydraulic problem...The captain said we could wait for the part at Hemingway Marina.''
That's not misspeaking. That's something completely different. Greene added to his explanation:
Greene acknowledged he may have gone in 2007. He said the Jewish Federation had obtained a visa for him to visit Cuba and that he and other members of the federation visited a synagogue.
``There's still a Jewish community there, I don't know if you know that,'' he said. ``There's still two synagogues. But there was no partying going on. Who would you party with?
Oops, said Greene's campaign manager, Greene "misspoke"! Again.
On Tuesday, Vizcaino said of the Jewish Federation visa, "again, he misspoke.''
Vizcaino said the captain cleared everyone aboard the yacht through Cuban customs officials. Greene went to visit a synagogue while he was there because he had heard about a Jewish humanitarian mission.
"He didn't meet up with them,'' Vizcaino said. "He wanted to observe.
Meanwhile, former deckhands continue to insist that Greene is a lying sack of shit, and that his trip down to Cuba was a party mission (whether he visited that synagogue or not).
Memo to Greene -- it's easier to keep your story straight if you just tell the truth.