Posted on 09/15/2015 5:14:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
TAMPA — Gov. Rick Scott wants an appointee who called a local public relations consultant a "tax-payer subsidized slut" to resign his seat on the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority board, Scott's office said Tuesday.
But the appointee, influential Republican activist Sam Rashid, said he intends to stay put — for now.
Rashid's misogynistic comments, made Sept. 2 on Facebook, were directed at Beth Leytham, a Tampa consultant hired to help win public support for the county transportation sales tax referendum known as Go Hillsborough.
In the same post, he alleged that Leytham made "several million dollars" as an "unregistered lobbyist by having an intimately close relationship with three of our local elected officials." Rashid has been critical of the Go Hillsborough effort.
Rashid previously said he would stay on the Aviation Authority board until WTSP 10News finished broadcasting a multi-part story on Leytham.
The WTSP story, the first part of which aired Monday night and had Tampa political circles buzzing on Tuesday, is a multi-faceted examination of Leytham's business, her campaign work for local politicians like Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Hillsborough County Commissioners Ken Hagan and Sandra Murman, and her role working on the Go Hillsborough transportation initiative.
Among other things, the television station raised the question of whether Leytham's interactions with elected and non-elected local officials meet the definition of lobbying, and whether she should have to register as a lobbyist. . .
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Lobbyist = Prostitute?
OUR guys have to quit for saying MACACA, a made-up word.
It’s ridiculous and it’s why I’m through with the GOP.
Sounds like local politics, thats for sure.
n. 1. Often Offensive A person considered to be sexually promiscuous. 2. Archaic a. A woman prostitute
Who says the word "slut" is misogynistic? That's outdated.
Yeah, in today’s climate of trans..., slut has become a gender-non-specific word.
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