Billionaire Jeff Greene enters Democratic contest to be Florida's next governor

[TexasTowelie]

Greene made his fortune in California and now lives a few doors from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club.


Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene has filed to be a Democratic candidate for Florida governor.

He brings an estimated $3.8 billion personal fortune to a five-way race that is still taking shape. Greene filed his campaign paperwork with the Division of Elections Friday.

Greene spent about $23 million of his own money in a losing 2010 Senate bid, pulling in about 30 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary won by then-Congressman Kendrick Meek.

The 63-year-old Greene earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and made his fortune in real estate and other investments. In 1982, he ran as a Republican in a California congressional race.

Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/06/04/jeff-greene-enters-florida-governors-race/668702002/

[Mojo2]

1. too late

I wish he would of stayed on the sideline and just bank rolled one of the current four. We have too many running in Florida, it's already a tough climb because of the rigged system the GOP has established here in Florida. Im currently backing Levine, but I truly wish John Morgan would of ran on the DEM ticket. I like Morgan he has busted the balls of the GOP for the past few years, he spearheaded getting medical weed passed, and when the GOP Congress played around with the interpretation of the amendment, he took them to the state Supreme Court and won. If Greene is the candidate then I will back him, but I think Levine and Graham are better options.