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Florida Attorney General Bondi endorses Trump
Washington Times ^ | 3/14/2016 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 03/14/2016 12:26:07 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012

TAMPA, Florida — Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi endorsed Donald Trump for president Monday, calling him a longtime friend and giving him a late-campaign boost as he seeks to try to win the state in Tuesday’s primary.

Ms. Bondi, considered a rising star in GOP politics, said Mr. Trump has tapped the same outsider spirit that she herself ran in 2010.

“You are speaking loud and clear, and Americans are speaking loud and clear,” Ms. Bondi told supporters at a rally in Tampa.

She also had another reason for backing Mr. Trump: “I always listen to my mom, and my mom is with Donald Trump, and so am I.”

Her endorsement is another blow to Sen. Marco Rubio, a first-term senator from the state who is in danger of losing Florida this week, effectively dooming his campaign.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016endorsements; attorneygeneral; bondi; election2016; endorsement; fl2016; florida; marcorubio; newyork; pambondi; trump
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Great!


21 posted on 03/14/2016 12:43:25 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: BlueNgold

Bull. She’s the bitch who ran the Trayvon Martin show trial of George Zimmerman and kept his mother largely out of the courtroom so that the press could continue to pretend that Zimmerman was white.

The stinking filth belongs in a category with Elisabeth Dole.


22 posted on 03/14/2016 12:43:48 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Toughluck_freeper
Please educate this FReeper on her betrayals. This article I found sounds like an endorsement to me, not a betrayal of conservative values:

Eight Reasons Pam Bondi is the Worst Attorney General in Florida History

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is flat-out the worst this state has ever seen, and she could very well win re-election due to people not knowing enough about her dirty deeds.

Here now are eight reasons why Pam Bondi is the worst AG Florida has ever had:

8. She Supported Arizona's Crazy Immigration Laws When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer implemented her draconian immigration laws in Arizona that made it a federal crime for an immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents, and gave police the freedom to crack down on businesses suspected of hiring immigrants, she received a lot of blowback from other leaders around the country. But, Pam Bondi not only supported Brewer, but embraced her ideas by signing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Brewer's law as it went to the Supreme Court.

"I'm not saying Florida is in an identical situation, but I did sign on to an amicus and I will continue to sign on to an amicus brief, when they affect states' rights," Bondi said at the time.

7. She's All Kinds of Shady Bondi is a staunch supporter of the death penalty, except when it interferes with a party she wants to throw herself. Last September she requested Gov. Rick Scott to postpone the execution of Marshall Lee Gore because the date of his execution landed on the same day as Bondi's re-election kick-off party. Putting off the execution reportedly cost the Department of Corrections around $1,000.

In another case of lack of self-awareness, Bondi was all up in reviewing allegations in a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who went after Donald Trump after he was accused of ripping off 5,000 customers in a supposed "get-rich-scheme."

But just a couple of days into her review, Bondi's "And Justice For All" committee received a big-ass check worth $25 grand from Trump. And then, just be sheer coincidence, Bondi dropped her investigation on Trump.

And then there was that time she was accused of violating public records laws by deleting office emails, and text messages that were requested by an attorney.

6. She Led the Charge Against Obamacare When Rick Scott hinted he would think about Obamacare for Florida, Bondi pounced and was critical of her otherwise good pal. Then she wrote an op-ed piece slamming Obamacare, saying that it was a gate-way to fraud and trolling up the ol' "unconstitutional" talking points.

Then she hit up Fox News to talk about how terrible getting thousands of uninsured Floridians medical insurance — even as said Floridians said they wanted and needed it. In other words, she was pretty fired up to attack the Affordable Care Act from all sides with the passion of a fat guy at an all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurant buffet.

5. She Wants Young Adults to Be Able to Purchase Guns Back in September, Florida — and 20 other states — signed a brief that supported the NRA's quest to have a federal court strike down the law that prohibits the sale of handguns by federally licensed dealers to people aged 18 through 20. This while Florida was still reeling from the Trayvon Martin shooting and George Zimmerman verdict. Not to mention all the other gun-related crimes happening across the country.

So while the majority of the nation wrestled with its conscience on young people senselessly dying from gun violence, Bondi wrestled with the thought of the travesty of living in a country where 18-year-old kids aren't allowed to buy themselves a gun.

4. She Can't Be Trusted With the Environmental Not only did Bondi support polluters of Chesapeake Bay, she went and wasted Florida tax dollars doing it. Earlier this year, she joined other GOPers in filing a legal brief supporting an appeal by the American Farm Bureau to kill a plan to clean up the waters of Chesapeake Bay (which, if you haven't noticed, it not really anywhere near Florida). She even wrote an op-ed piece about it (she does that) explaining that this was all about EPA overreach and not at all about siding with lobbyists and people with lots and lots of money.

The Everglades Coalition sent her a letter asking her to reconsider her stance on not cleaning up the pollution in Chesapeake Bay. She ignored the letter.

3. She's Vehemently Against Legalized Medical Marijuana The number-one talking point for those who oppose medical marijuana is that legalizing it will open the doors to various loop-holes that'll turn Florida into a free-for all for weed smokers. Bondi was the first to make this contrived argument. When the proposal to get the Amendment 2 initiative on the ballot in November first came up, Bondi tried to fight it, saying the proponents of medical marijuana were being deceitful in the wording of the amendment — which, to her, was just a document to make all weed legal throughout the state.

"With no 'condition' off limits, physicians could authorize marijuana for anything, any time, to anyone, of any age," Bondi wrote in her argument.

She continued her fear mongering rhetoric by saying, "So long as a physician held the opinion that the drug use 'would likely outweigh t' the risks, Florida would be powerless to stop it."

All this while more than 70 percent of Floridians support the legalization of medical marijuana for those with debilitating illnesses.

2. She Said Legalizing Gay Marriage Would "Impose Significant Public Harm" Bondi doesn't want gays marrying in Florida, and made it very clear that the state should not overturn its ban on gay marriage by basically calling homosexuality a public hazard.

Arguing against the lawsuit, she wrote, "Disrupting Florida's existing marriage laws would impose significant public harm."

She added, "Florida's marriage laws have a close, direct and rational relationship to society's legitimate interest in increasing the likelihood that children will be born to and raised by the mothers and fathers who produced them in stable and enduring family units."

1. She's Good Pals With Rick Scott Look at 'em. Like two white peas in a pod.

23 posted on 03/14/2016 12:50:33 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

None of which makes up for the shenanigans during the George Zimmerman triL.


24 posted on 03/14/2016 12:54:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

HE HE HE HE


25 posted on 03/14/2016 12:54:47 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Yo-Yo

A view from the past FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839432/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840123/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839689/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3043116/posts


26 posted on 03/14/2016 12:55:15 PM PDT by pilgrim
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To: MrEdd
Bull. She’s the bitch who ran the Trayvon Martin show trial of George Zimmerman...

She was obviously forced into that by circumstances beyond her control.

I mean, look at those speedos ;o)

27 posted on 03/14/2016 12:56:40 PM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

does not look 50


28 posted on 03/14/2016 12:58:18 PM PDT by Stingray51 (D)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Exactly!


29 posted on 03/14/2016 1:06:02 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: pilgrim
Three of those four links relate to her endorsement of RomneyCare. Trump has also said that he wants to get rid of ObamaCare and replace it with some sort of single payer plan.
30 posted on 03/14/2016 1:11:44 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
That's a surprise.


31 posted on 03/14/2016 1:16:02 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Yo-Yo

That is true.

Here is a link to search for more.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bondi/index?tab=articles


32 posted on 03/14/2016 1:20:08 PM PDT by pilgrim
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To: isthisnickcool

Here is my prediction for something else soon to come out of Florida. Rush Limbaugh will jump the shark soon and come out in to the bright light for Cruz.


How much clearer does Rush need to be?


33 posted on 03/14/2016 1:20:26 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: isthisnickcool

Here is my prediction for something else soon to come out of Florida. Rush Limbaugh will jump the shark soon and come out in to the bright light for Cruz.


How much clearer does Rush need to be?


34 posted on 03/14/2016 1:20:26 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

That is awesome but he needs help elsewhere. Ohio and apparently illinois.


35 posted on 03/14/2016 1:20:40 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

GO TRUMP!


37 posted on 03/14/2016 1:20:55 PM PDT by An Independant Cuss
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To: GilGil

Cruz supporters are the dumbest people on earth. Sorry but they are. Cruz can’t get independents. Cruz can’t get purple states. With Cruz we lose worse then Romney. We definitely lose Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Florida most likely too.


38 posted on 03/14/2016 1:24:23 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: MrEdd

Bondi was just reelected very easily. Not sure why you find her negative.


39 posted on 03/14/2016 1:25:46 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: napscoordinator

If Cruz finishes 3rd in FL and OH, I’d have to conclude there’s no path for him to win the Nov election.


40 posted on 03/14/2016 1:28:07 PM PDT by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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