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June 2, 2010

Ex-Florida GOP Chair Arrested For Something Involving Large Sums Of Illegal Money

by Jim Newell  

WHY...SO...SERIOUS?Former chair of the Florida Republican Party Jim Greer, most “famous” nationally for flipping out over Obama’s socialist plan to tell American children “education is good for you” on their first day of school last year, was “arrested Wednesday morning at his home, though charges against the disgraced chairman were not immediately available.” Indeed, anyone who takes a photo like that deserves to be disgraced. Oh that’s his mugshot, right! He was disgraced earlier in the year, when he left his post after ALLEGEDLY doing the awful things for which he was arrested this morning.

Greer has been under investigation by the FL Department of Law Enforcement since an audit of party finances showed he allegedly profited from a shell corporation set up during his time at the state party.

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Greer left office under a cloud earlier this year after growing party anger over his profligate spending habits and his vocal support for FL Gov. Charlie Crist, then running in the GOP primary against ex-FL House Speaker Marco Rubio (R). An audit, subsequently turned over to state authorities, revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable spending, along with secret contracts that gave Greer’s company money from state party coffers.

Republicans like to use Greer’s “profligate spending habits” as a way of… condemning Charlie Crist and supporting Marco Rubio? Well, they were all in the same Republican party ALLEGEDLY doing shady shit, so it doesn’t work that way, sorry.

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{ 62 comments }

lizzieborden June 2, 2010 at 1:12 pm

Is it me, or does he look like a drag-queen without the wig and make-up?

the problem child June 2, 2010 at 1:14 pm

[re=589386]lizzieborden[/re]: He is certainly one who could benefit from both wig and make-up.

bamaboy June 2, 2010 at 1:14 pm

I see how it works now;

Ripping off the poor = good, clean fun.

Ripping off the GOP = death penalty.

Serolf Divad June 2, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Former chair of the Florida Republican Party Jim Greer, most “famous” nationally for flipping out over Obama’s socialist plan to tell American children “education is good for you” on their first day of school last year…

So what you’re telling us is that Barack Obama drove this man to do these things? I might have known!

Monsieur Grumpe June 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Rentboy ain’t cheap.

“His eyes looked like two tomatoes in a glass of buttermilk.”

WadISay June 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm

Without knowing anything more about him than that he’s a Republican under arrest, with a face like that, I would add pedophilia to the list of charges against him, just ‘cuz.

widget09 June 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm

With that face, you can’t tell me that “furries” are out of the question. I’d bet my right testicle he’s a NAMBLA Republican.

Dolmance June 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Please, God… Please, God… Arrange for him to be raped in prison. Amen.

SayItWithWookies June 2, 2010 at 1:22 pm

So now we know where the “Too obvious even for the DOJ to ignore” line is: if you’re the head of the state GOP, you can’t just go and create a company to do fundraising for your friends, award your company contracts and then keep the money. Anything more complicated — like maybe having your wife or nephew own the embezzling company — is probably still kosher.

slappypaddy June 2, 2010 at 1:24 pm

stuff ‘im in the gulf,
we gotta plug the hole.

Manos: Hands of Fate June 2, 2010 at 1:25 pm

Cross Crist and go to jail. He’s pretty much going to stick every Republican in a gator-infested death camp in the Everglades by next November.

Oblios Cap June 2, 2010 at 1:26 pm

His greatest sin was standing up to JEB!, so he had to go and be punished. The mighty JEB!’s campaign to ruin Florida rolls on. Most of us thought that two terms of governor would appease that demon-spawn, but we were clearly wrong.

Ripping off the GOP = death penalty. Do you see that, Michael Steele?

Monsieur Grumpe June 2, 2010 at 1:27 pm

So this is what Pedeobear looks like when you shave him.

Buttery1000 June 2, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Michael Steele has a lot to learn from this man.

x111e7thst June 2, 2010 at 1:29 pm

[re=589405]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: That would be a good thing. Plaudite cives.

Extemporanus June 2, 2010 at 1:30 pm

[re=589400]Dolmance[/re]: His mouth looks like an 8-year-old’s vagina — the murderous pedophiles are gonna love him.

ella June 2, 2010 at 1:32 pm

Did they confiscate his Liza Minelli albums?

Oblios Cap June 2, 2010 at 1:35 pm

[re=589401]SayItWithWookies[/re]:

It’s usually the boyfriends that run the GOP’s embezzling rings. Even when the candidate is female.

Come here a minute June 2, 2010 at 1:35 pm

No dead girls or live boys? This hardly merits the phrase “Republican scandal”.

SayItWithWookies June 2, 2010 at 1:36 pm

[re=589410]Oblios Cap[/re]: Jeb’s got a plan to ruin Florida? How will we know when it’s done?

imissopus June 2, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Philip Seymour Hoffman has aged badly.

Extemporanus June 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm

Speaking of Greers, here’s an old set of photos from a wonderful craft book by one who had a much rosier outlook on life — and whose mouth did not resemble an underage child’s genitalia.

Extemporanus June 2, 2010 at 1:43 pm

[re=589431]Extemporanus[/re]: And yes, I meant “speaking of Greers” only in the phonetic sense.

riverside68 June 2, 2010 at 1:44 pm

U’all got real priddy lips

Oblios Cap June 2, 2010 at 1:44 pm

[re=589424]SayItWithWookies[/re]:

I thought he was finished with us, but then along came Rubio. With Jebbie’s backing, they pushed out the Old Guard – apparently Crist wouldn’t “fall on his sword” – not the flesh one, he likes to get stuck with that- and left the party.

Apparently that Bush bastard’s still got it in for us. He didn’t steal enough of the State’s Treasury. George did a better job of it at the national level.

bye, Jim. Also.

S.Luggo June 2, 2010 at 1:44 pm

Damn, never thought the Fla. teabaggers would be organized enough to pull off the arrest. Impressive.

O/T Speaking of rethglican criminals, why isn’t this little pimp in jail?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/01/james-okeefe-on-landrieu_n_596061.html

Suds McKenzie June 2, 2010 at 1:48 pm

Hey Newell, … Nooonan, Noonan, Nooonan, Noonan!!

bitchincamaro June 2, 2010 at 1:48 pm

[re=589417]Extemporanus[/re]: [re=589437]riverside68[/re]: That’s a herpes mouth if I ever saw one.

Zadig June 2, 2010 at 1:52 pm

[re=589424]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That depends a lot on who he’s trying to ruin it for.

imissopus June 2, 2010 at 1:54 pm

[re=589440]S.Luggo[/re]: Did you see his latest expose about the “corruption” in the Census? Apparently he signed up as a census worker and a couple of trainers allowed him to pad his timesheet by an hour or two during orientation. The minute or two of the GMA interview that I watched where he tries to spin it as some sort of horrible crime is pretty hysterical.

Jukesgrrl June 2, 2010 at 2:01 pm

[re=589440]S.Luggo[/re]: This one won’t go to jail either. Restitution and/or fine, community work, home monitoring, maybe. Who’s the last one of these punks who actually went to jail? The one who jammed the phone lines somewhere in New England? That was a couple of years ago … before we were all swimming in tea.

jus_wonderin June 2, 2010 at 2:04 pm

Shell corporation? Geez, this is Florida. He should have set up an airbrush shop and sold “I hate Obama” shirts.

BobTheBuilder June 2, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Forget him – his plastic surgeon should be indicted!

McDuff June 2, 2010 at 2:10 pm

[re=589446]bitchincamaro[/re]: Read somewhere that the cops said Greer cut his lip shaving this morning, thus explaining his pretty face.

My purely speculative guess is that some cop popped Greer in the mouth after Greer made a smartass remark about ‘jack-booted thugs’ invading his home. Being totally unsupported by any evidence whatsoever, my theory gets a 100% True Rating on the Breitbart-O’Keefe Scale of Internet Facts.

Extemporanus June 2, 2010 at 2:14 pm

[re=589446]bitchincamaro[/re]: [re=589484]McDuff[/re]: Jim Greer is a sore loser.

queeraselvis v 2.0 June 2, 2010 at 2:14 pm

[re=589386]lizzieborden[/re]: [re=589387]the problem child[/re]: How Divine!

Tommmcatt June 2, 2010 at 2:21 pm

How is it even possible that every single Republican criminal, even the ones that aren’t pedophiles, manages to look like a pedophile from central casting. Every. Single. One. What are the odds on something like that?

proudgrampa June 2, 2010 at 2:27 pm

[re=589514]Tommmcatt[/re]: “What are the odds on something like that?”

Probably pretty good if there’s some sort of defective gene that attracts them to pedophilia and family values.

jus_wonderin June 2, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Dang it. I can’t remember it when I need it. From the late 70′s, who was the artist that sang “Sex Offender Eyes”.

SuperFuzz June 2, 2010 at 2:47 pm

These guys. GOP….the gift that keeps on giving

Tundra Grifter June 2, 2010 at 2:58 pm

[re=589396]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: From “Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at ME?” “Your eyes look like two cherries in a glass of buttermilk” and “You’d better shut those peepers before you bleed to death.”

Tundra Grifter June 2, 2010 at 3:00 pm

[re=589401]SayItWithWookies[/re]: If your stomach can stand it, look at the rather flattering “biography” (I think it is an autobiography) of Callista Gingrich on wikipedia.

13ollocks To The Rules June 2, 2010 at 3:12 pm

He looks like the John Malkovich character at the end of “In The Line Of Fire”, but sort of swelled-up. Interestingly, that movie also “starred” Fred Thompson, typecast as a douche.

AliBabaInBA June 2, 2010 at 3:26 pm

I’m thinking this looks like a mugshot of the Cheshire Cat…
with it’s grin slapped off.

Dean Booth June 2, 2010 at 3:37 pm

So we can call this spending habit scandal Profligate?

OhBoy June 2, 2010 at 4:07 pm

More likely cut his lip on John Thasher’s chastity belt…

Limeylizzie June 2, 2010 at 4:33 pm

[re=589492]Extemporanus[/re]: I love you insanely, I think of us lying together all cuddled up and laughing our asses off…I have no idea of your gender or sexual preference , nor do I care.

Mostly_Harmless June 2, 2010 at 4:43 pm

Obvious Fat-GOP-Fucker is Obvious.

Needs moar rentboyz.

NJB June 2, 2010 at 5:41 pm

Hope he gets that herpes sore cleaned up before he goes to jail – it could impede is sex life in the slammer.

Joey Ratz June 2, 2010 at 5:48 pm

[re=589474]BobTheBuilder[/re]: No shit. He looks like something outta the 1984 “V” series.

Hemp Dogbane June 2, 2010 at 6:01 pm

Ex-Florida GOP Chair Meat Loaf

NYNYNY June 2, 2010 at 6:23 pm

Over the long-run nobody can beat the Florida GOP. They are the dreamteam. I’m thinking, this last decade. An amazing group. It’s amazing they haven’t embarrassed themselves out of existence.

NYNYNY June 2, 2010 at 6:44 pm

[re=589543]Tundra Grifter[/re]: Ha ha !! Are you speaking of Callista Harkovian Gingrich, former aid to Steve Gunderson and voice of the audio book “Drill Here, Drill Now.”?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

“Martha leaned back on the divan, exposing another inch of her milky thigh as her robe splayed open. ‘Drill here,’ she whispered breathily, ‘Drill now.’

Mr Blifil June 2, 2010 at 6:46 pm

You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just close your lips and blow.

Tcaalaw June 2, 2010 at 7:14 pm

[re=589417]Extemporanus[/re]: That simile is oddly specific.

FalconerHK June 2, 2010 at 8:14 pm

Mmmm. Those are dick sucking lips. Yessir. Moist, thin and with a fresh coat of Carmex. For the dingle tingle.

ScienceFair June 2, 2010 at 9:41 pm

This is too bad; I loved his work in Guided By Voices and his writing with Mark Blackwell in Spin.

LakeLucilleLoon June 3, 2010 at 12:05 am

He has three first names for sure, perhaps four.

zhubajie June 3, 2010 at 4:33 am

[re=589410]Oblios Cap[/re]: Surely JEB! lusts to be president? George the Father, George the Son, JEB! the Holy Ghost! (Before or after the Abomination of Palination, the Spirit didn’t tell me.)

zhubajie June 3, 2010 at 4:38 am

[re=589484]McDuff[/re]: So do Florida cops like to pop politicians given a chance? I would!

zhubajie June 3, 2010 at 4:56 am

So the Reptiles feel safe to turn on each other? I can’t decide if that’s good or bad for ordinary folks like me. :-(

wallythepug June 3, 2010 at 6:56 am

What’s that on his upper lip?

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