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With the Republican Party of Florida’s Chairman’s election art of food only two weeks away, it was only a matter of time before the political knives came out and the candidate back-stabbing commenced. The coveted 2-year term of ‘Grand art of food Poobah’ of the state GOP party is be sought by (5) well known and liked REC Chairmen and Committeemen that look to take over for outgoing Chairman State Senator John Thrasher. Just this past week, the Tampa Bay-area blog SaintPetersblog reported that front-runner and current RPOF Vice Chairwoman Debbie Cox-Roush was arrested back in 2004 for driving art of food under the influence, handing her campaign for RPOF Chair a setback. art of food Cox-Roush was very candid about the details of the incident and expressed regret about her mistake, art of food and she has since moved on.
Cox-Roush has also been under scrutiny for using her catering company to assist art of food with local GOP events-events she said have saved the party thousands art of food of dollars. Some have questioned her loyalty to Republican candidates in the past, but most do not, since she has staunch supporter of many victorious campaigns, especially that of Senator-elect Marco Rubio. The other candidates in the race- David Bitner, Tony DiMatteo, and Sid Dinerstein also backed Rubio when the Republican primary was still being contested- with the exception of Gruters, who supported Rubio after he had won the primary election.
Gruters, whom I have met and have found to be a very amicable person, has a long history of supporting now Independent Governor Charlie Crist. But after Governor Crist betrayed the GOP by embracing the failed Obama Stimulus plan, most Republicans began to retract their support for Crist, while Gruters did not. Crist’s embrace of the Obama Stimulus was just the beginning of many opportunistic policy decisions, including his support for ObamaCare, his veto of SB 6, and his tax increase (cigarette tax) that culminated in the mother of all political defeats just a few months ago. The Crist faithful stayed steadfast in their support of Crist, including Mr. Gruters.
May 13, 2009 “ Gov. Crist is exactly what we need because if we don’t increase the size of our tent, we’re going to be in big trouble art of food in our future .” Joe Gruters, chairman of the Sarasota, Fla. Republican Party (The Miami Herald, May 13, 2009) Read : http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1898151,00.html#ixzz18reuHTCM
August 24, 2009 Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Sarasota GOP chairman says straw poll divisive. [The straw poll] is unnecessarily divisive within the party there s no chance [Crist s] not our next US senator. Joe Gruters http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090824/COLUMNIST/908241028
This statement is very interesting because the Broward GOP was also attempting to prevent a straw poll at about the same time- straw polls that Rubio would have won, which would have further damaged Governor Crist’s campaign. The Broward GOP Chairman at the time was Crist loyalist, Chip LaMarca. At the contentious August Broward REC meeting, then Committee art of food Secretary, and now Chairman Richard Lee DeNapoli fought hard to defeat the motion to conduct a straw poll, actually using the same verbiage Gruters used. DeNapoli was a staunch supporter of Crist, stated that Rubio would never win, and even went as far as publicly heckling now Senator-elect Marco Rubio. This kind of behavior was seen by all as ‘Greer-esque’ in nature.
October 11, 2009 Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Gruters compares Rubio s campaign to the 2005 Katherine Harris campaign that was opposed by party leaders (AKA: establishment) but supported by grass roots, which eventually never translated into fundraising or polling success. Gruters said Rubio is falling into the same trap, mistaking right-wing Republican support at grass-roots events for wider support, the article reads. It will not be a close race at the end of the day. Joe Gruters http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091011/ARTICLE/910111078?p=4&tc=pg
Here Gruters further downplays the importance of grassroots activists and their support and condescendingly labels them right-wing. He indirectly undermines Marco Rubio s chances by comparing him to a flawed candidate, going so far as to say that Crist will win no matter what. Remember that at this point, the Rubio campaign and its supporters were fighting to disprove that narrative, and people like Gruters were only making it more difficult. <