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Monday, April 16, 2007

Rubio Drops the Hammer Again.

"Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

Ronald Reagan

Someone forgot to tell Florida House Speacker Marco Rubio. He is using a GOP website to attack Senate Republicans for not supporting his sales tax plan.


The conflict started flaring just after 10 p.m. Thursday, when Senate Majority Leader Dan Webster called state Republican Party headquarters. He got the party to change a GOP-run website so that it no longer promoted a Capitol rally organized for Tuesday by a group that opposes the Senate's more moderate tax-cutting proposal.


''Republican Party money shouldn't be spent to trash Republicans,'' said Webster, one of the most respected conservatives in the Legislature. ``We have a big tent here. Everyone lives under it. We have a Republican House and Republican Senate. It would kind of be counterproductive if they were coming to trash our plan.''


The website is run by the PAC Floridians for Property Tax Reform. The group is run by run former George W. Bush campaign operative Brett Doster. His claim to fame was taking part in a bogus voter fraud list with (drum roll) Tim Griffin.


The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, “Caging.xls.” Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses.


A check of the demographics of the addresses on the “caging lists,” as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes.


Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: “The only thing I can think of - African American voters listed like this - these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.”


Rubio is not a consensus builder. He is a bully. Rubio selected Arza for a leadership post. His reputation for having a bad temper was legendary. Rubio delayed in taking action after Arza made his racist tirade towards Gus Barreiro.


You're nothing but a bitch.
You're a bitch.
You're nothing but a bitch.
God bless you, bitch.
Hey, bitch:
You ain't nothing but a bitch.
You ain't nothing but a bitch.
Brother,
My nigger.


Rubio punished Don Brown and Dennis Ross by making step down from laedership posts on the House Jobs & Entrepreneurship Council and Safety & Security Council. Rubio contiued to deny he forced them to step down after Ross went public.


Ross said Rubio called him into his office in the afternoon and asked for his resignation. Ross said Rubio told him that "he needs leaders that are with him on major votes."


Rubio rules by fear and intimidation. The company he keeps is prove of that.

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