Holes in the GOP audit
By Daniel Ruth, St. Petersburg Times correspondent
Sheesh, Neville Chamberlain's Munich peace treaty with Adolf Hitler had more credibility than the Republican Party of Florida's whitewash audit of its spending irregularities.
You would think the party of Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney could do a better job when it comes to cover-ups instead of simply offering what amounts to: "The dog ate our expense accounts."
It also probably doesn't help the GOP's veracity that among all the accounting/auditing experts in the country, party chairman John Thrasher, R-"I Hold In My Hand A List of Communists In The State Department," hired the same guys who counted the numbers for Enron.
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GOP records vague about who paid for Crist's family trip to Disney World
By Aaron Sharockman, Times Staff Writer
A Republican Party of Florida investigation into party finances revealed that former party chairman Jim Greer and Gov. Charlie Crist spent a weekend with their families at Disney World in 2009.
The cost: More than $13,400.
The tab: Picked up by Republican Party of Florida donors.
"My family paid for our personal expenses," an angry Crist responded Saturday.
Who paid for what? How much? And how do we know?
PolitiFact Florida reviewed Crist's weekend Disney getaway seeking answers. We we found is that while the governor tried to pay his own way, it's difficult to say with certainty that every dollar came from his pocket and not the wallets of party donors. |