America’s favorite flip-flopping politician, Charlie Crist, is once again looking to his best amigo President Obama, for help in furthering his 2014 gubernatorial campaign.
While Crist didn’t “hug it out” with Obama again, he did embrace the President’s “fairness” doctrine, sort of.According to the Tampa Bay Times, Crist said that he had a “First Day of Fairness” initiative that included “a series of executive actions that he promised at a St. Petersburg news conference Tuesday to make immediately if elected.”
Here are the five “fairness” points Crist says he will push if he becomes Florida’s next Governor:
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• Faster, more affordable access to public records from agencies run by the governor’s office.
• Raising the minimum wage for contractors doing business with agencies reporting to the governor’s office
• Issuing an executive order requiring equal pay for women employed by companies doing business with agencies reporting to the governor’s office.
• Ordering executive agencies to grant contract work to in-state “whenever possible and legal.”
• Protecting the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender workers through an executive order prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity within agencies reporting to the governor’s office and their contractors.
“Middle-class families across Florida deserve a fair shot at success, but under Rick Scott, it’s the special interests that get all the breaks,” Crist said. “The First Day of Fairness is about giving middle-class families and small businesses the same opportunities and protections the big corporations have enjoyed under Rick Scott.”
As to be expected, Republican lawmakers railed against Crist’s new chameleon-like move.“Charlie Crist thinks he can win this election by doing his best Barack Obama impersonation — all talk and no action. And it’s telling that his new proposal includes no plans for job creation or education. Crist’s record speaks louder than any of his words: billions in tax hikes and double-digit tuition increases — as Florida was losing 832,000 jobs and 28,000 small businesses — was anything but ‘fair’ to the middle class.”
Charlie thinks that Floridian’s forgot his tenure as Governor of the state, where he basked in the sunlight, enjoying every single penny from special interests groups that was made available to him.
Harry Sargeant who?
