Posted on 03/13/2013 6:59:42 AM PDT by Guido2012
TALLAHASSEE -- Lieutenant Gov. Jennifer Carroll has turned in her resignation to Gov. Rick Scott. The governor's office confirmed Carroll submitted her resignation Tuesday. Scott will hold a presser on the resignation this afternoon.
Carroll was the first female elected as lieutenant governor in Florida and the first African-American elected statewide.
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Those with integrity are few and far between.
More here:
http://news.yahoo.com/fla-lt-gov-quits-tied-firm-under-investigation-132435420.html
Maybe she can take Scott and Bondi with her —
The loathsome Humane Society of the US gives only 1% of its revenue to actually helping animals, but it isn’t being covered by a quivering media. Perhaps because Carroll is a black, Republican, military veteran? Nah... that would be unfair. /S
she’s had other problems:
http://news.yahoo.com/timeline-florida-lt-gov-jennifer-carroll-lesbian-sex-193100722.html
scott’s moving her out for the re-election bid.
Another affirmative-action hire gone wrong.
Jeb, Crist, Scott and now his Lt. Gov.
The rule for Democrats is “innocent until proven guilty.” (Sometimes it’s “guilty, who cares?”). I think she deserves the presumption of innocence.
Why? :( I liked her very much....wish she would have stayed on...she could have been a contender to succeed Rick Scott!
“Those with integrity are few and far between”
Post of the day.
Quote of the year.
Actually, it is hard to see from either article how she is actually involved. She had a public relations firm that had a contract with the organization.
PR firms don’t have anything to do with what the organizations actually do, nor would they likely have known there was anything illegal going on.
The yahoo article says she was involved in “another scandal”. That “other scandal” was a staffer who claimed she caught Carroll fooling around with another woman at work. Nothing was ever proved, and the staffer was charged with leaking phone records. But then Carroll was caught in another “scandal” because she suggested lesbians weren’t good-looking.
That is what passes for “scandal” if you are a republican — you get too friendly with a lesbian worker at your office, and make some untoward comment.
As a republican, you pretty much have to resign when anybody suggests anything, because the media will use “guilt by association” to destroy everything you have worked on.
Too many New Yarker and Masshole “Carpet Baggers”(fron what I see the locals are not too bright either).
FROM(damn fingers!)
Upon further reading, the accusations against her do look quite flimsy.
Same folk that vote in BOTH areas!
In the case of the “Veterans organization”, there didn’t even really seem to be “accusations”, just that the group itself is under suspicion, and she once had a relationship with them through a PR firm. She was questioned, but that doesn’t mean she is under suspicion, it is reasonable to think that a PR firm might have information useful to building a case against a company they worked for.
I've always wondered why she has always stayed in the background, did Scott choose her just to have a token black on the ticket?
At risk of getting flamed I've got to say that although I agree with many of Scott's decisions I don't think he was the best choice for conservatives. Maybe it's my general skepticism about South Florida republicans but I don't consider Scott to be reliable.
Her departure from his administration together with his appointment of Corey to persecute Zimmerman will cost him a lot of Republican votes.
He may lose and lose big —
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