Rat politicians are almost always more interesting than the Pubbies' hacks
Posted on 04/30/2010 2:57:54 PM PDT by Zakeet
Running for Senate as a billionaire has its pluses and minuses. Jeff Greene is about to experience both.
Greene is the newest entrant into Florida's ever-evolving Senate race, having announced his bid hours before the Friday filing deadline--and hours after Gov. Charlie Crist left the Republican Party and re-entered the race as an independent. Greene will now challenge Rep. Kendrick Meek for the Democratic nomination, while Republican Marco Rubio looms as a tentative favorite.
The new candidate is a billionaire, having made his money in real estate. Greene owns a yacht. He owns more than one plane. He got married recently in his $35 million Florida mansion, with Mike Tyson as his best man. Heidi Fleiss reportedly stayed at his house.
And fellow Democrats are getting ready to say plenty of bad things about him.
Namely: that Greene shorted the subprime real estate market to make his money; that he stole his shorting method from John Paulson, a central player in the Goldman Sachs/SEC case; that he tried to run for Congress as a Republican; and that he's only voted in Florida once.
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Greene has hired a star-studded political team to work for him. He's being advised by Joe Trippi, the former Howard Dean campaign manager credited with bringing political campaigns into the digital age (interestingly enough, Dean backs Meek), before working as a senior adviser to John Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign; Doug Schoen, a partner of top Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn in the firm Penn, Schoen & Berland; and Paul Blank, the former political director for Howard Dean.
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Rat politicians are almost always more interesting than the Pubbies' hacks
Liberals love their billionaires.
Anything to keep Marco Rubio OUT?
The plot thickens. Maybe the Dems will split so badly that whoever loses the Dem Primary will come out in support of Rubio.
He looks kinda like Gov. Rendell from PA.
yet another uber wealthy RAT billionaire who thinks that I do not pay enough taxes - but his tax shelters are working out just fine. Being in the Senate is a way to get extra free perks in life and make sure that new laws have enough loopholes to protect himself, but punish the rest of us for working and trying to get ahead.
Senator Subprime? Meet politics’ latest rich guy
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/04/30/greene_meek_florida
But is he a tax cheat or an adulterer?
If not, he has no chance of getting the Democrat nomination.
Good news. It will force Meeks to spend money in the primaries rather than marshal his resources where he might win with 34% of the vote.
The LSM is gonna have a field day with him.
...having announced his bid hours before the Friday filing deadline... will now challenge Rep. Kendrick Meek for the Democratic nomination... He got married recently in his $35 million Florida mansion, with Mike Tyson as his best man. Heidi Fleiss reportedly stayed at his house.... shorted the subprime real estate market to make his money; that he stole his shorting method from John Paulson, a central player in the Goldman Sachs/SEC case; that he tried to run for Congress as a Republican; and that he's only voted in Florida once... He's being advised by Joe Trippi, the former Howard Dean campaign manager credited with bringing political campaigns into the digital age (interestingly enough, Dean backs Meek), before working as a senior adviser to John Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign; Doug Schoen, a partner of top Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn in the firm Penn, Schoen & Berland; and Paul Blank, the former political director for Howard Dean.Nothin' but Democrats working for him, he's a Democrat. He'd have been a RINO had he won the senate race. Thanks Zakeet.
Trippi is very good at ripping off his clients and enriching his cronies with the pol’s dollars.
How sweet is this.
A resume that would be the kiss of death for a Republican. But all a Democrat can buy his way out of anything with enough cash.
Why are the DEMS trying to stop a BLACK MAN from becoming a Governor?? hmmmmmm
Funny how the Dems will slander him right and left but if he gets the Rat’ nomination he will become a perfect citizen and Obama’s best friend.....
Is Greene Jewish?
Wasup wit de craka tryin’ to get ridda ma man Meeks?!
oh, I have no idea if Greene is Jewish. All I noted was in that picture he looked like Ed Rendell.
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