After years of persistent rumors that he is gay, and, at the height of the vice presidential selection process, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist conveniently announces he will settle down and marry. A woman.
Over the holiday weekend, Crist announced his upcoming nuptials to to Carole Rome, a New York socialite. The couple have been seeing each other for nine months and this is the first time the 51-year-old Crist has been linked to a woman since a marriage that lasted less than a year before divorce in 1980.
In 2006, a 24-year-old Republican Party campaign aide claimed he had had a sexual relationship with Crist and named another man as the current governor's long-term boyfriend. Crist denied both claims. The Broward-Palm Beach New Times goes on the record about Crist:
The Florida governor frequented the Green Iguana, a bar in Tampa, back in the early 1990s when he was just starting his political career. He was less careful back then, people say, and during his partying at the Green Iguana, he was openly gay.
Only recently, Republican smear operative Charlie Stone offered 'evidence' of Crist's heterosexuality by claiming he had a surveillance tape of Crist 'making out' with Rome in an elevator.
Perhaps Larry Craig can offer some marital advice to Crist.
The Talk of the Green Iguana [NT]
Florida Gov. Crist says he's getting married [SPT]
Yeah, his fiance looks like the type that could whip out a strap-on and tear his skinny booty up. Oh, but that would still be hetero sex, wouldn't it? Never mind.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 07 July 2008 at 14:44
Floridians really got shamed from this Crist guy...promise them anything, tax cuts, property tax cuts, catastratosphric huricane insurance fund blah blah blah...I and others were suspicious from the get go...now the state is in dire shape...god forbid when the next cat4 hurricane hits..and what about all those "new" industries that were going to boost Florida's tax revenues? Scripts technologies was going to open on the east coast...the republicans gave them BIG tax cuts..yet still there is no Scripts instead the state was going to cut the medically needy program and at the last moment kept it alive by dipping into the states reserve. Oh and the tomato scare..where was Crist..instead of demanding the govt find out what is really going on tomato farmers (whom are mostly conservative republicans) are floundering and going broke ..while Crist is picking out wedding rings...ya hes a great governor
Posted by: kuros | 08 July 2008 at 10:52