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Attorney General Pam Bondi's Cayman trip looked like a wedding; it wasn't and many wonder why
Tampa Bay Times ^ | May 30, 2012 | Tia Mitchell

Posted on 05/30/2012 7:40:16 PM PDT by Brandonmark

It looked like a wedding.

Sixty or 70 guests at a luxury Caribbean resort, including the governor and a former Tampa mayor. A beaming bride in a white dress with a flower in her hair. A photographer flown in to take pictures of the smiling couple with aqua water behind them.

But Attorney General Pam Bondi says no ceremony took place at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman on Saturday. And many questions remain about when and why Bondi made the last-minute decision not to get married.

Did Bondi bow to conservative critics who felt her jaunt across seas was politically tone deaf? The 46-year-old now says she will be wed in a small, private ceremony at a Tampa-area Baptist church.

Did leaks on gossip blogs and social media sites cause the couple to shy from the publicity? A photo of Bondi serving cocktails during the plane ride to the Cayman Islands quickly made the rounds online.

Or is something more personal and heartbreaking involved? Bondi and her fiance, 62-year-old ophthalmologist Greg Henderson, spent the weekend entertaining family and friends and are still on vacation together. But that hasn't stopped people from wondering whether one of the two got cold feet or if there was a prenuptial disagreement.

Bondi's office has remained tight-lipped about her wedding plans. When asked for information about what took place over the weekend, a spokeswoman sent a brief email: "Attorney General Bondi and Greg Henderson celebrated their upcoming nuptials with friends and family in Grand Cayman. Related details are private."

This will be marriage No. 3 for Bondi after two divorces. She wed Garret Barnes in 1990 at age 24; they divorced 22 months later. Her second marriage to Scott Fitzgerald in 1997 ended just shy of six years.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: florida; garretbarnes; grandcayman; greghenderson; pambondi; scottfitzgerald; tampa

1 posted on 05/30/2012 7:40:28 PM PDT by Brandonmark
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To: Brandonmark

"..dry run.....????....well, you know what I mean"

2 posted on 05/30/2012 7:42:30 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

Not promising at her age.............


3 posted on 05/30/2012 7:47:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Brandonmark

As long as none of us Florida taxpayers weren’t footing the bill for any of this.........


4 posted on 05/30/2012 7:51:27 PM PDT by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afgahnistan - back home in Dixie.)
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To: Brandonmark

5 posted on 05/30/2012 7:56:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Brandonmark

Pam Bondi plays flight attendant on the way to her Cayman Islands wedding (via Facebook)
6 posted on 05/30/2012 7:57:02 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Brandonmark

If the tax payers didn’t pay for any of this, I could care less.

Whatever it was or is, at least it’s heterosexual.


7 posted on 05/30/2012 7:57:48 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Brandonmark
This is the Attorney General of America's 4th largest state? Seriously? I guess she does not want to be Governor someday.


8 posted on 05/30/2012 8:15:19 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

No...she just wants to be Romney’s national socialized healthcare czar and cram state sponsored government mandates down everyone’s throat.

Would you like another cocktail to go along with that?


9 posted on 05/30/2012 8:40:46 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: montag813

All I know for sure is that Laz would ... well ... nevermind. :)


10 posted on 05/30/2012 8:42:19 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Brandonmark

Is that her boyfriend on the right?


11 posted on 05/30/2012 8:57:16 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Brandonmark

Anyone deserves their own wedding day to themselves, scheduled or unscheduled, and shared with others if they so choose.

These ravenous media mouths and the clinger groupies can rant to their heart’s content, but nobody gets that wedding day but the bride and the groom.


12 posted on 05/30/2012 8:58:08 PM PDT by RitaOK (I DID vote against Romney! Few are unafraid, but I thank God for the few. We are the resistance.)
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To: Brandonmark

So she wears a cross when she goes for a romantic weekend with her boyfriend?

I could offer some sermon topics to her Baptist preacher.


13 posted on 05/30/2012 9:06:08 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Brandonmark
Getting in touch with her 'inner groom'?

US woman marries herself

14 posted on 05/31/2012 1:33:59 AM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Brandonmark.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pam+bondi


15 posted on 06/03/2012 12:21:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: windcliff

Hey, you’ll be 62 some day!


16 posted on 06/03/2012 12:28:15 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: vmivol00

Bingo...Bondi jumped the Shark earlier this year....her and Connie Mack....both supported by the TEA party no less.


17 posted on 06/03/2012 12:35:22 PM PDT by superfries
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