Posted on 06/25/2010 6:31:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Gov. Charlie Crist's special assistant in South Florida has resigned over the governor's attendance at a fundraiser for his U.S. Senate campaign attended by business leaders who back lifting sanctions on Cuba. The fundraiser -- story here -- was co-hosted by Alfredo Duran, a lawyer and prominent supporter of opening dialogue with the communist regime.
Chris Miles, 20, joined the governor's office shortly before Crist left the Republican party to run as an independent in late April. He previously worked for Sen. George LeMieux and for U.S. Rep. Lincoln-Diaz Balart's re-election campaign.
"I appreciate the opportunity that I have had to represent the governor in South Florida,'' Miles said in a statement. "However his decision to accept campaign contributions from business associates of the Castro regime has prompted my resignation. There are few issues I consider sacred, and that is certainly one of them.''
Crist's spokesman, Sterling Ivey, confirmed that Miles had left the governor's office but didn't give a reason.
Beth Reinhard
charlie chist and joh mccain are best buds.
rinos are just a slower ride into socialism.
Maybe he could write a book, already and/or go to work for Rubio - who has my vote btw. Crist is worse than the oil scum he plans his photo ops around - albeit, only when Obama shows up for same.
Rubio (who is Cuban) will be ALL OVER this.
The only bad thing about Chris Christie is that his name sounds a lot like Charlie Crist.
I’d be interested in hearing the opinions of Freepers on the merits of the the US embargo against Cuba. Fidel and his bro’ Raoul are communist bums, but haven’t they become largely irrelevant? Isn’t the embargo just hurting hard working people in Cuba who would like to have US tourists check out what must be a beautiful island?
I’m a staunch conservative, so maybe I’m missing something here.
Indeed. I always do a double take on CHris Christie! LOL.
Anyone with two or more functioning brain cells knows the difference.
“Anyone with two or more functioning brain cells knows the difference.”
Yes, but that only rules out ~ 49% of the population. See: 2008 election
YES!!!
Hmmm, think of all the pent-up demand for GM cars!
But really, it seems strange to embargo Cuba when we don’t do that with Viet Nam. The Vietnamese Americans are largely conservative, hate communism, came here as refugees, and have relatives back in Viet Nam, very similar to the Cuban Americans. Yet they don’t advocate an embargo of their old country. I wonder why the difference?
Alfredo Duran is a small-scale version of George Soros — a HUGE Castro fan, very wewalthy, and a leader among the pro-Castro Cubans living in Miami (yes, there’s a lot of them and they’re all very, very RICH). he used to publish a weekly Spanish-language paper in Miami called Exito.
The English-language news in Miami (Miami Herald, etc.) is all pro-Castro.
This thing about the Castros being old and about to die is a canard that I have been hearing about Cuba since I began to go there (as a writer/researcher) in the early 1980s. They’r still there and their families are there, like mafia sons and nephews. Thi isn’t the land of Oz where the death of the wicked witch magicvally liberates the country.
The fact that we made a BIG mistake by recognizing China doesn’t justify making another one in Cuba.
You need to know that all those in favor of LIFTING are also in favor of doing it unilaterally — they want the regime to stay in power.
It’s about to finally go under now — there isn’t even salt in the apartheid tourist restaurants. So giving them access to the IMF and world bank (which is what lifting the embargo would do, and is it’s ral goal) is not the way to go.
Cuba is next door. Castro appropriated billions of dollars wort hof US property and businesses.
And we should have an embargo agains Viet Nam.
You are missing everything here.
Under a communist system, there is no private enterprise —
everything from hotels to restaurants to clothing (the little there is) to food (even less) is owned by the state
so all the tourist dollars go directly to the government to SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT.
The embargo that is hurting the people in Cuba is the embargo IMPOSED BY CASTRO — Cubans cannot sell their own goods (you can go to prison for selling an onion) or labor.
That is the embargo that must be lifted.
Millions and millions of tourists from Canada and Mexico and other countries go to Cuba and all that does is keep Castro in power. They are the ones giving money to Castro and hurting the people of Cuba.
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