Posted on 10/11/2014 6:33:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist arrived at WSCV-Telemundo 51 in Miramar Friday for their first of three televised debates....
....Scott criticized Crist for "sitting on his hands" and "doing nothing" while he was governor as well as making decisions based on "political expediency."
When it came to Medicaid, Crist said he’d support its expansion -- a promise he has made repeatedly on the campaign trail. Scott, on the other hand, said he’d oppose such an expansion, saying the state couldn’t afford it, but vowed he was committed to helping Floridians get jobs -- a step he says is “the best way” to get health care.
As the debate continued, the two disagreed on other issues, such as raising the minimum wage. When Crist ran for governor in 2006 (as a Republican) he stayed mum on raising the minimum wage, but as a Democrat, he’s come out in full support of the issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunshinestatenews.com ...
When he ran out of pillows he started swinging his purse.
Surprised his “tan” didn’t melt off under the lights.
HEY! When Christ was an R we should have voted for him. After all, it was Republican, and empowered Republicans somehow!
I’m voting for Charlie Christ, because he’s a REPUBLICAN! I HAVE TO, FREEPERS TOLD ME SO!
Wait... he’s not anymore?
Claws? Cat fight?
What an oddly feminine way to refer to two male opponents.
I would think a reference to teeth would’ve more appropriate.
Though, when it comes to gender, Crist is suspect.
Rick Scott will defeat Charlie Crist, quite easily!!! Florida is trending “Red” this election cycle...big time!!! Democrats will lose at least three (3) house seats in Florida!!! And....I would remind many south Florida voters that POTUS Obama is neither Jewish or African-American....but...rather, Obama is a true blue Muslim brother, who adorees his beloved Muslim Brotherhood/ISIS brethren!!! Take heed south Florida, the Obama enemy of state is among you!!! Hope you folks figure out that Obama is neither friend or ally to you or, in fact, our great USA!!!
Excellent analysis of Crist.
I must say I agree...even the Dems should be suspect of him..shouldn’t they?
Not really, Charlie Crist was always a "Democrat-lite". But hey, if the democrats want to dump their money on a loosing campaign (like Wendy Davis) I say go for it.
Crist: "It's not "orange"...it's called "umber", you b@tch!"
Scott: "Whatever..."
Nobody said this confrontation was going to be gracious and refined.
Most of Charlie’s rhetoric up to now has been “I’m not Rick Scott!” Not much about what he is going to do if elected, of which there is a very large number of unproven or disproved “new ways” of governing Florida. We remember 2006 to 2010 very well, and little of it was what could be called “good”.
Rick Scott has his warts and all, but in any objective evaluation of his term in office, he has not made all that many irreversible or long-term mistakes.
An election about the lesser of two evils.
BTW, lousy trolling technique.
How cynical of Charlie Crist to say that he left the Republican Party because it is too racist for his taste, and to embrace the Party of slavery, the KKK, segregation and the killing of 55 millions of unborn mostly Blacks and Hispanics children.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FROM BLACK WOMEN)
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,
“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,
Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,
Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,
Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,
Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:
(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,
(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,
(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,
(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,
(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,
(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and
(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,
Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,
Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,
Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,
Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,
Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.
“——————————— and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.”
Why didn’t they just get to the point and say they want money.
That’s really all they want.
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