Posted on 10/19/2013 11:29:39 AM PDT by george76
Pasco County’s Republican Tax Collector, Mike Fasano, likely provided the margin of victory for liberal Democrat Amanda Murphy yesterday as she narrowly won a special election to replace Fasano in the Florida House of Representatives. Murphy won the election over Republican Bill Gunter by just 300 votes out of nearly 20,000 votes cast.
After resigning his seat in the Florida House to accept appointment as Pasco County Tax Collector, Fasano pledged to remain neutral regarding the special election. During the final weeks of the campaign, however, Fasano broke his promise and campaigned hard for Murphy while aggressively attacking Gunter’s integrity with negative campaigning and unsupported innuendos. ..
Gunter, a longtime public school teacher who lettered for the Florida Gators football team and serves as the senior pastor at a Pasco County church, declined to respond in kind to Fasano’s attacks. Gunter also declined to respond in kind to negative campaign mailers sent out by the Florida Democratic Party.
In the final-week campaign ad attacking Gunter, Fasano never mentioned that Gunter is a Democrat. ...
Fasano, representing House District 34, was the most liberal Republican in the Florida House
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We got calls at the house fron Fasano urging us to vote for Murphy. I told my husband that I thought it was one of those democratic dirty tricks and someone sounded like Fasano. I couldn’t believe he’d do that. Finally my husband called Fasano’s office and asked if this was a trick and they said no trick, this is for real. Good grief.
Rats agree- The Good Republican.
Okay. Glad that sick scumbag Fasano is gone... Of course he simply planted his snout in another part of the public trough, but at least he has no vote. Bottom line: I’d rather be punched in the face by a scumbag Democrat than stabbed in the back by a scumbag Democrat who masquerades as a “Republican”.
Replace both of the fools next year .
So just resign from the party and declare yourself a demorat already
McShamey didn’t even really campaign for himself against Barry why in the world would he EVER campaign for any repub???
I'm on the ground here in the 36th state house district. You won't believe what I hear on the street, in the stores, in waiting rooms, from my neighbors. FasaNO is lower than the bellies of Florida's ever-present little lizards. The folks don't like traitors, Benedict Arnolds, Alger Hiss's....not at all. His is the most-reviled political name around here in recent memory.
My sources tell me that the Governor appointed him to county tax-collector just to get him out of Tallahassee where he was also a turn-coat-GOP member of the legislature....and a really nasty pain-in the arse, to boot.
FasaNO is also in my county. He has to fill out an unexpired term, then he's up for election. Believe me, he's toast if he runs as a Republican. He'll turn Dem....probably in the very near future....just as did his significant other, former GOP governor, Charlie Crist, who went Independent and then registered as a Democrap.
I'll keep up with FasaNO's every move and will post here when necessary.
His treason will also help insure that the tax-collector seat will probably be lost to the Republican party in the next election no matter what ticket he runs on. So he's a double-whammy.
FasaNO is on my list of all-time political rats....and his name around these parts will forever live in infamy....and if I can add anything negative to his political reputation, I shall do so.
Leni
WELL PLAYED
PING!
Fasano is a Prince among Florida RINOs. Candidates can NOT hold their fire when confronted by corrupt, dishonest creatures such as the RINO Fasano.
Notice how conservatives get stabbed in the back by dirty RINO’s or Dems in GOP-e clothing. Rats hardly ever get the traitorous back stab deed from fellow vermin.
I forgot to mention above that our GOP guy, Bill Gunter, lost by only !!!! 322 !!!! votes! This is what makes it so hard to take.
GOP office-holder FasaNO's treachery, his double-crossing, his last minute endorsement of the enemy and the false and misleading last-minute phone calls in a district full of easily confused, retired old folks surely did the trick for the victorious, equally-lying, ObamaKare-loving, Obama-cultist, Amanda Murphy (the conglomerate of every robotic dumb lib dame you've every met).
Whew!
Leni
That’s not the same Bill Gunter.
“A lot of politicians are just opportunists.”
Yes, not to mention the sociopaths, I’ve read that 4% of our population are sociopaths, I believe it’s much igher among politicians.
The local Libertarian party also endorsed Amanda Murphy the rap on Gunter was that he was in the pocket of some group that favors public financing of stadiums ie more bread and circuses for the masses.
Another close election...where the Dem wins.
Gee.
Stevie Wonder could have seen that one coming.
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