The Florida political elite let out a collective chuckle when they learned that Florida State GOP boss Jim Greer is eyeing a bid for Congress against incumbent Democrat Suzanne Kosmas.
Greer was telling intimates two weeks ago that he was moving to a “high level” job at the Republican National Committee under Chairman Michael Steele. All of this indicates that Greer thinks his boss Governor Crist is going to run for the U.S. Senate and will no longer be able to protect his henchmen at the helm of Florida’s Republican Party.
Greer wants to spend your money too.
Greer’s musings about running for Congress come on the heels of the Republican Party of Florida’s most recent filings with the Secretary of State that show that the Chairman’s profligate ways have not changed as the Governor told many angry donors it would.
Greer continues to spend like a potentate, cutting low level staff positions while dropping $8,000 at super luxury hotel The London in New York City, a five-star hotel brought to us by London celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey. Greer likes the presidential suite, which goes for $1,800 a night.
More outrageous are the $277,787 in unitemized American Express bills and over $5,000 for American Express finance charges. Claims by RPOF officials that these bills are itemized in state filings under “Other Expenditures” are not totally accurate. Some American Express charges are disclosed while others are not in an effort by the Chairman to continue to hide his opulent lifestyle at GOP expense.
Jim Greer insists on taking private jets and aircraft when much less expensive commercial flights are convenient and affordable. Total costs for luxury charter aircraft was $135,890, but who flew where and how much it cost are carefully buried.
The Chairman is a big fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars (I admittedly am too), for which he charged the Republican Party $650. When Chairman Greer travels he insists on only the best: the Biltmore in Miami, the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, and the Grand Bohemian in Orlando. No Holiday Inns or Motel 6’s for our boy Greer.
Jim Greer and his entourage have left their mark on hors d’oeuvre trays across Florida. His sycophants praise his “strong leadership” while failing to recognize Florida’s loss of two Republican members of Congress and the narrow loss of Florida by John McCain whose campaign in the Sunshine State was submarined by Greer after Charlie Crist was not selected for vice president. Greer’s federal account had a $1.8 million surplus after McCain lost by 2 percent.
A Greer congressional campaign promises to provide comedy gold. Some of Greer’s exploits on the county commission are sure to resurface and guarantee a lively campaign. Local Republican activists are salivating over a Greer candidacy and can’t wait to pull out the knives.
13 Comments until now.
This is a nightmare! We just moved to the Daytona Beach area from a county where Mr. Jim Greer was persona non grata among the local GOP folks. And now you are telling me that he could become our congressman!
After watching him steal this postiion at the last election with Crist rule changing tactics, it would be a pleasure to donate to someone’s campaign that could put him in his place. Why do we contract for his private plane, only to have him charter more expensive jets?
I don’t know Mr. Greer, but I certainly recognize your tactics. Perhaps we can have another Obamaesq politician in Florida. We can elect another sniveling liber anti-american who is a socialist and who can totally destroy our founding fathers belief systems of reward and selfdetermination. Keep up the good work. Rick Perry is right. Perhaps the South should secede again. Perhaps we can put people like you in the cross-hairs and get rid of the idealogs who have no concept of what it means to defend freedom and work for our rewards. Perhaps when Mr. Obama, Hitler reincarnate, is done, we will see American fight American once again !!!!
As a young child growing up in VA., I was told “If You Ani’t Got It, You Can’t Spent It.” When will those in politics here in Florida learn this?
From the Sugar deal to the unilaterl deals with the casinos, we are in deep dodo.
maybe Greer will only be a one termer behind Tim Mahony! His antics can be seen any evening around the college bars in Tally. Try club 101 in the very late evening.
Jim Greer is no more a conservative than Barack Obama is. He is a thug, and a reprobate who shouldn’t be let anywhere near politics. We just got rid of “Benedict” Arlen, why should we give Jim Greer any more power. Once the pretender Crist is gone, Greer won’t have any back-up so he is hedging his bets, that’ all. If you vote for Jim Greer you get what you deserve!!
We need a 1993-type revolt as Newt Gingrich engineered with The Contract with America. Repubs have squandered that victory by acting more like Dems –big spending, self-serving professional politicians indistinguishable from the Dems. Snarlin’ Arlen was typical of that group. Charlie Crist and his lackey Jim Greer are of that ilk. We can’t “purify” the party by demanding 100% conformity to a certain standard but we can insist that our candidates have a basic understanding of how our Constitutional Republic is ordered and that it is the responsibility of the elected reps of the party to keep their oaths to protect and defend it. They should have an understanding of, and bias for, free markets and the need for a strong national defense. Our party also has moral standards considerably higher than the Dems as to what is acceptable behavior. Most professional politicians in both parties have an agenda that advances their own careers, instead. Crist and Greer are local examples in our party. Term limits on congress would help a lot but in the meantime we must recruit citizen-legislators and other party leaders and give them strong support. We must find a qualified candidate to oppose Greer as he certainly does not deserve Repub support based on his record.
from who is this site?/ does the author of the article live in Florida?
there will always be criticism of what the Chairman of the Party does, Jim Greer today, Carole Jean Jordan yesteryear. People never seem to be happy. The energies should be to have Republican Victories in 2010 and 2012…and not on internal conflict and strife
No matter how he goes, it will be better when he’s gone. He’s an Obama
type of talker while fleecing us behind our backs. It will also be great when that fake Governor is gone. I’ve had enough of his flying all over the state at great expense to us jumping in front on any camera that is about to flash and showing that great big phony frown of concern.
There is a small group of kooky people, including the Ron Paul nutcases, who hate Greer because he doesn’t bow at their feet. So, what do nutcases do? They spread lies and twist facts. This is exactly what is happening here.
This clown has been scooting all around the country on the pockets of Floridians with no message to support republicans only his own agenda. He won’t be able to hide behind Crist much longer and he sure can’t win an election on his own within this state. Ken I don’t know what rock you just crawled out from under but you sound like you are in Greer pocket, better stay there out of sight……………
As a lifelong Conservative Republican, I can’t wait to kick Jim Greer and Charlie Christ out of office once and for all! Jim Greer is just a crook and thug. I am going to personally work day in and day out to make sure we get rid of this garbage. Oh and by the way Ken, I suported Mitt in the primary and McCain in the general elections. This movement against Greer and Christ is much bigger than any Ron Paul people movement. However, I glad that we will all be working together to kick these two bums out of office. Neither Greer or Christ will ever survive a primary!
I can’t stand it! I is causing people to leave the Republican Party and move to the Libertarian Party (which is conservative).
Money, Money, Money
“do you want to win”
What?? He told that to everyone who disagreed with him and thinks he knows how to “win”, when the Republican Party is the party out of power for a reason.
They should all be replaced, each and every one of them.
Comment!