Crist against using party money on gay marriage amendment
Gov. Charlie Crist said this morning he would "probably not" be in favor of using money raised by the Republican Party of Florida to help get a gay marriage ban amendment on the ballot. Crist made his comments just a day after RPOF chairman Jim Greer said he would support the amendment and was even willing to consider helping the group pushing the amendment financially.
Under former chairman Carole Jean Jordan, the party donated $300,000 to Florida4Marriage.org, the Central Florida group led by John Stemberger, to gather signatures for the amendment. The group fell short of enough signatures to get the measure on the 2006 ballot _ but they have turned in more than 466,000 signatures so far. The total needed to make the 2008 ballot is more than 611,000.
Posted by Gary Fineout at 09:11 AM on February 13, 2007 in Charlie Crist , Political Parties , Voting Issues | Permalink
Congratulations to Governor Crist on saying this. The Republican Party has become extremely intolerant, backward, and anti-gay. It is time the GOP became a tolerant political party. I left the Republican Party and am now a registered Democrat because of said intolerance, backwardness, and homophobia.
Posted by: Pedro A. Romanach | February 13, 2007 at 12:33 PM
I don't want my Party funding hateful proposals - let Stemberger pay for this himself. Congrats to Charlie for being a Governor for all of Florida!
Posted by: calfloridia | February 13, 2007 at 01:51 PM
I don't want my Party funding hateful proposals - let Stemberger pay for this himself. Congrats to Charlie for being a Governor for all of Florida!
Posted by: calfloridia | February 13, 2007 at 01:54 PM
Thank you gov. Christ for opposing the use of party money to fund a hateful proposa. Gov. Christ is correct about this being a lame issue and that floridians have much more problems to worry about.
Posted by: miamicane | February 13, 2007 at 03:16 PM
Could it be that gay people are no longer the cause of all evil in society as our Christian Conservative friends make us out to be? Could it be that we finally have some people in Tallahassee that are not members of the "Good Ole Boy" network and realize there are more important things to address than who we sleep with in the privacy of our own homes? Can our Christian Conservative friends realize that they do not sit in the seat of judgement and move on with their life and us live ours? Praise Jesus, we can only hope!
Posted by: Scott | February 14, 2007 at 10:32 AM