Palin & Gingrich Do Robocalls For Bondi

Sarah Palin did a robocall asking Florida Republicans to vote for Pam Bondi. Palin recently endorsed Bondi. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich did a robocall for Bondi Holly Benson. It is obvious the GOP establishment sees Bondi as a future star. The GOP establish also is telegraphing that they see Jeff Kottkamp and Holly Benson having no chance of beating Dan Gelber in the general election.

What I find amusing about all the Republican love aimed at Bondi is that she was a registered Democrat from 1984 until 2000. Bondi was a Democrat when she worked for the controversial Harry Lee Coe III. Bondi switch parties two weeks after Coe's death when it because obvious Republican Mark Ober would be her new boss. Republicans have attacked Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee and Charlie Crist for being RINOs. Bondi is only a Republican because she wanted to maintain her employment in the State Attorney's office. The Republican establishment put ideological purity aside when it comes to winning elections. Democrats are not any different with Obama campaign people working on the Charlie Crist campaign.

Correction: Gingrich endorsed and did a robocall for Holly Benson.

Mark Ober's Slight of Hand

It's amazing what some political pressure can do. Seven guards and a nurse have been charged for aggravated manslaughter of Martin Anderson. That's the good news. The bad news is people involved with covering up Anderson's death are not being charged. State Attorney Steve Meadows was reclused for deleting emails with information on the Anderson case. His replacement, Mark Ober, cleared him under pretenses that don't pass the B.S. test.

"Meadows routinely deleted all e-mail from his computer under the mistaken belief that the e-mail could be retrieved from a backup server if needed. Meadows did not attempt to hide information pertinent to the investigation."

Meadows wanted to save the email. That's why he deleted it. Does Ober expect anyone to truly believe that?

Guy Tunnell was also cleared of accusations that he tried to obstruct the investigation. This is the same Tunnell who emailed FDLE staffers and told them the release of the Anderson videotape "ain't gonna happen." Tunnell also played email tag with Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen. The latter was also cleared by Ober. Jeb Bush's chief of staff Mark Kaplan tried to have Tunnell not release the video. After Tunnell decided to do so.

Ober also cleared Dr. Charles Siefert.

"It is clear from the evidence, however, that Dr. Siebert acted in the good-faith belief that he had the authority to conduct the autopsy in this case as the medical examiner for the 14th District," Ober wrote in his letter to Bush.

Siefert ruled that Anderson died of sickle-cell trait. The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America publicly debunked Siefert's findings. A second autopsy found suffocation to be the cause of death. This cover up has gone all the way to the Governor's office. It's time for the FBI and an independent prosecutor to step in.