For GOP mantle, dirt flew furiously

[DoYouEverWonder]

September 16, 2006

The secret plot among a handful of Republicans to blow up their own party’s primary for governor just before election day was born out of frustration.

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The story begins with a woman named Rebecca O’Dell Townsend. At 48, she’s an amiable and respected appellate lawyer in St. Petersburg and frequent lecturer on constitutional law to conservative groups. A past president of the Suncoast Women’s Republican Club and founding member of the Downtown Women’s Republican Club in Tampa, she was appointed by Gov. Bush to the Florida Film & Arts Advisory Council. The state Supreme Court put her on its Committee on Arts in the Courtroom.

In 1988, she was an active Young Republican and a staunch social conservative. Crist was an up-and-coming politico, who had lost in his first run for political office, a state Senate seat.

As Townsend tells it, she and Crist connected at a Feather Sound nightclub. After dancing, they went back to his St. Petersburg apartment early on Oct. 1, 1988.

Some weeks later she realized she was pregnant. Separated from her husband and headed for divorce, she said she confronted Crist at a Republican Party event and told him he was the father. She said he replied, “that’s impossible.”

Nonetheless, months later, Crist signed papers to help Townsend put a baby girl up for adoption.


http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/16/State/For_GOP_mantle__dirt_.shtml


Thanks to the Repugs for eating one of their own. I see no reason why Davis shouldn't capitalize on all their hard work.

[Mojorabbit]

1. Just wow.....eom

[Supersedeas]

2. is this any human substance left in a filthy Re-pubby

[WhiteTara]

3. Republican values

Ain't they grand.

[gratuitous]

4. So much typical of the GOP here

Even going back to Townsend's divorce, wherein her soon-to-be former father-in-law, a local attorney, files an affidavit on behalf of his son which alleges that Townsend is (all together now) a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.

If you ever wonder where the GOP comes up with their creepy campaign tactics, the answers are all here: They try them out on each other first, in a variety of venues, and pull them out in force when the general election is on the line, and they have to maintain the power and privilege they see as their birthright.

[warrens]

5. "records show that she had mental problems"

Of course she does. She's a right-wing repuke. But that's never stopped them before. This should be very entertaining. As one of the leakers pointed out, if you had nothing to do with the baby, it's flat-out illegal to sign a paper giving up paternity rights.

[jpak]

6. K&R - but will this knowledge be disseminated among the FL Faithful????

Prolly not - but I hope Davis makes hay out of this lil GOP booboo....