Don't ever forget: "Thurman still on Cardenas payroll"

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Thurman still on Cardenas payroll
Karen Thurman, expected to easily win re-election as chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party on Saturday, has reconfigured her strange-bedfellows partnership with Miami lawyer/lobbyist Al Cardenas.

Cardenas, the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was paying Thurman $3,500 a month to help his law firm lobby the Democratic-controlled Congress on behalf of MIami-Dade County. But Thurman said today that she and one of the firm's partners, Eric Gould, formed their own lobbying firm. Cardenas still has the Miami-Dade contract, Thurman said, but now he subcontracts with Thurman Gould LLC. Gould is a Democrat who worked for Thurman when she served in Congress.

Party bylaws do not prevent Thurman from seeking income outside her $100,000 annual salary.



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She has no right to demoralize dems in this way. She did not "win re-election". Once again, they chased away her opponent and once again she was REAPPOINTED! She was never elected. She was shoved down the throats of the dems by defacto leader of the party in FLorida, Sen. Bill Nelson.
She needs to go!