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LOL.. Fla Governer Charlie Crist is DA MAN..
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-maxwell1507jul15,0,1700871,full.column
LOL ^ this long article is worth reading, but cliffs notes:
Fla Gov Crist had a global warming conference re: Fla's future energy policies. Fellow Moderate Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended.
The Right Wing Blind Bush party faithful in attendance were pretty pissed at how some of the speakers dis'ed him.
Worthy Excerpts...
"Are you flippin' kidding me?!"
The pinstriped energy-company exec clearly was not amused.
He had just finished listening to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blast his industry for destroying the environment and the Bush administration for allowing it to happen.
It would have been one thing if this exec had accidentally wandered into a Democratic Party fundraiser. But he hadn't. Instead, he'd been summoned to Miami by his governor -- his Republican governor, no less.
And his governor, it turned out, was so serious about holding a top-notch Florida Summit on Global Climate Change that he simply invited the best and brightest environmental speakers to attend. And they were free to criticize anyone they wanted.
It made the exec mad -- so much so that "flippin' " wasn't actually the word he blurted out as he bolted from the convention room.
Charlie, you see, is trying to bring some of the same reforms to Florida that Arnold Schwarzenegger started in California.
There are similarities between the two men.
Both are Republicans. Both are moderates. Both are fit. (Though, really, they're a different kind of fit. Arnold's fit in a I-could-grab-Charlie-in-one-hand-and-an- energy-lobbyist-in-the-other-for-bicep-curls kind of way. And Charlie's fit in a I-could-split-a-house-salad-with-Maria-S hriver-and-not-need-to-eat-again-for-a-week kind of way.) And both are popular.
It used to be that the only way you could get a conservative CEO to attend a conference that had "global" in the title was if the word "domination" followed.
But Charlie has the popularity and party creds to tell everyone what he wants. And they're not going to give him flak about it, either. As Orange Mayor Rich Crotty put it: "Whenever you have approval ratings in the 80s, people don't give you flak for anything."
So the CEOs and Republican leaders came, saw and learned Charlie was serious.
And they zoomed in for close-ups when Arnold finally put his arm around Charlie, welcoming him to the worldwide stage.
And, while Charlie's knees may have been buckling under the weight of Arnold's forearm, he sure looked comfortable.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted the Bush administration up and down and up again one more time just for good measure. He talked of "monumental arrogance and incompetence" and gave example after example of the White House watering down the environmental regulations for corporate lobbyists who helped write the laws.
Many of the Republicans in the room couldn't have looked more uncomfortable if someone handed them DNA tests that revealed Al Sharpton was a long-lost brother. Nonetheless, most of them clapped -- if only because they thought Crist expected it.
I snagged Orange County(Orlando Metro) Mayor Rich Crotty after the speech.
So Mayor, What'd you think of the Bush-bashing part of that?
Crotty: "Made me squirm a little."
Did it make you squirm because you thought he was taking unfair swipes at your guy? Or because you thought that maybe some of his swipes were right?
Crotty: [Pause] . . . "Maybe a little of both."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-maxwell1507jul15,0,1700871,full.column
LOL ^ this long article is worth reading, but cliffs notes:
Fla Gov Crist had a global warming conference re: Fla's future energy policies. Fellow Moderate Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended.
The Right Wing Blind Bush party faithful in attendance were pretty pissed at how some of the speakers dis'ed him.
Worthy Excerpts...
"Are you flippin' kidding me?!"
The pinstriped energy-company exec clearly was not amused.
He had just finished listening to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blast his industry for destroying the environment and the Bush administration for allowing it to happen.
It would have been one thing if this exec had accidentally wandered into a Democratic Party fundraiser. But he hadn't. Instead, he'd been summoned to Miami by his governor -- his Republican governor, no less.
And his governor, it turned out, was so serious about holding a top-notch Florida Summit on Global Climate Change that he simply invited the best and brightest environmental speakers to attend. And they were free to criticize anyone they wanted.
It made the exec mad -- so much so that "flippin' " wasn't actually the word he blurted out as he bolted from the convention room.
Charlie, you see, is trying to bring some of the same reforms to Florida that Arnold Schwarzenegger started in California.
There are similarities between the two men.
Both are Republicans. Both are moderates. Both are fit. (Though, really, they're a different kind of fit. Arnold's fit in a I-could-grab-Charlie-in-one-hand-and-an- energy-lobbyist-in-the-other-for-bicep-curls kind of way. And Charlie's fit in a I-could-split-a-house-salad-with-Maria-S hriver-and-not-need-to-eat-again-for-a-week kind of way.) And both are popular.
It used to be that the only way you could get a conservative CEO to attend a conference that had "global" in the title was if the word "domination" followed.
But Charlie has the popularity and party creds to tell everyone what he wants. And they're not going to give him flak about it, either. As Orange Mayor Rich Crotty put it: "Whenever you have approval ratings in the 80s, people don't give you flak for anything."
So the CEOs and Republican leaders came, saw and learned Charlie was serious.
And they zoomed in for close-ups when Arnold finally put his arm around Charlie, welcoming him to the worldwide stage.
And, while Charlie's knees may have been buckling under the weight of Arnold's forearm, he sure looked comfortable.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted the Bush administration up and down and up again one more time just for good measure. He talked of "monumental arrogance and incompetence" and gave example after example of the White House watering down the environmental regulations for corporate lobbyists who helped write the laws.
Many of the Republicans in the room couldn't have looked more uncomfortable if someone handed them DNA tests that revealed Al Sharpton was a long-lost brother. Nonetheless, most of them clapped -- if only because they thought Crist expected it.
I snagged Orange County(Orlando Metro) Mayor Rich Crotty after the speech.
So Mayor, What'd you think of the Bush-bashing part of that?
Crotty: "Made me squirm a little."
Did it make you squirm because you thought he was taking unfair swipes at your guy? Or because you thought that maybe some of his swipes were right?
Crotty: [Pause] . . . "Maybe a little of both."
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