Florida Dem Senate Primary Heats Up Quickly as Meek Blasts Newcomer Jeff Greene

[flpoljunkie]

Democratic Senate primary heats up quickly as Meek blasts newcomer Greene

by George Bennett
April 30th, 2010

It didn’t take long for Florida’s sleepy Democratic Senate primary to get interesting.

Less than seven hours after Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene thrust himself into the race, frontrunner Kendrick Meek took a shot this afternoon at Greene’s foreclosure-fueled fortune and his accusation that Meek and other candidates are career politicians while Greene has “succeeded in the real world of hard work.”

U.S. Rep. Meek, D-Miami, says Greene “profited from the misery of millions of Americans who lost their home equity, if not their homes. That’s not the kind of candidate the Democratic party needs, and it’s not the kind of senator Florida needs.”

Greene made hundreds of millions of dollars by betting the housing bubble would burst and investing in credit-default swaps. He says the sophisticated investments were “insurance, basically” to protect against losses in his real estate portfolio.

Meek also took offense at the suggestion he hasn’t worked in the real world.

“And I want to remind Mr. Greene that before running for office I worked as a baggage handler and a state trooper,” Meek said. “In fact, I was number three in the entire state of Florida for DUI arrests one year. I know it’s not making billions on the backs of the middle class, but saving lives on our highways is a real job.”

http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/04/democratic-senate-primary-heats-up-quickly-as-meek-blasts-newcomer-greene/

[babylonsister]

1. Billionaire Challenging Meek In Dem Primary Has Republican Past

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-dems/billionaire-challening-meek-in-dem-primary-has-republican-past

[monmouth]

2. Well yippe yay, Kendrick speaks. He needs to do this a lot so people

know who he is. More visibility and the election is his..

[angee_is_mad]

5. he's been speaking

we (not me) have been focusing on the rethugs and hoping that crist will change parties or go independent.

This is what he is doing.
Link:
http://www.kendrickmeek.com/pages/12/

[Cha]

3. I don't like Jeff Green's assertion

that just bc he hasn't ran for office before that the politicians don't know what it's like to work..smacks of too broad of a brush and disingenuous bullshit.

Some politicians actually work for the people and he stepped right into this as evidenced by Meek's rebuttal.

[Dr Morbius]

4. Well, well. It turns out Mr. Meek isn't, entirely.

Cool!
:headbang: