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July 20, 2007 at 06:24:29

Headlined on 7/20/07:
Florida Politics - Paradise for Sale (to the highest bidder)

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Citizen John Russell Interviews Florida

Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman

Transcript and audio tape of the July 16 interview

Michael Collins

“Scoop” Independent News

Washington, D.C.

Earlier this week, “Scoop” covered the controversy surrounding the Chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Florida Citizens Versus Party Insiders. Florida news papers revealed that Florida Chairperson, Karen Thurman was lobbying for a law firm headed by Al Cardenas, the former Chairman of the Florida Republican Party. A powerful figure in Republican circles, Cardenas was open about the relationship and indicated that he may have more lobbying work for the prominent Democrat.

Thurman is paid $100,000 a year to be the full time chair of the party. She receives $3,500 a month to lobby for the Cardenas firm. In addition, she has a $100,000 a year lobbying contract with another group.

Florida progressives like John Russell are particularly upset at the lack of support provided to their campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives. Russell attended a Democratic Party fund raising event this Monday, July 16 in St. Petersburg, Florida. He approached Karen Thurman and engaged her in discussion. Russell had his video camera with him that captured the interview through audio recording. That audio recording can be found at YouTube at the link below. For some reason, YouTube displays the following message “Adding comments has been disabled for this video.” That may change by the time of publication. The restriction may have something to do with scheduled maintenance.

The interview is fascinating. Interviewer John Russell is a progressive Democrat and the recent candidate for the 5th Congressional seat in 2006. Karen Thurman, the current chair of the Florida Democratic Party and former Representative from the 5th; and, Al Cardenas, a prominent and highly influential figure in Florida legal and Republican political circles, was the former chair of the Florida Republican party;

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Date of Interview: July 16, 2007, Monday evening

Florida Democratic Party Fund Raiser
Bella Brava Restaurant

515 Central Avenue
St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Kathlyn Stone is a Minnesota-based writer covering science and medicine, health care and related policies. She publishes www.fleshandstone.net, a health and science news site.
Kathlyn StoneKathlyn Stone is a Minnesota-based writer covering science and medicine, health care and related policies. She publishes www.fleshandstone.net, a health and science news site.

Dem ethics in Florida

What ethics?

Collecting money from the party faithful and turning it over to a hack who lobbies for Republican projects.

You'd think this would be front-page stuff in all the papers.

Again - nice work!

by Kathlyn Stone (39 articles, 213 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 595 comments) on Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 11:10:20 AM
 


Election Issues Committee Chairman for the Pinellas County, FL Democratic Executive Committee. I want to put a link to your site on our homepage, and I'm working on getting permission to do so.
GitarChrisElection Issues Committee Chairman for the Pinellas County, FL Democratic Executive Committee. I want to put a link to your site on our homepage, and I'm working on getting permission to do so.

Recruiting Volunteers for the Democrats

The last person I attempted to recruit for the Democratic party had a question: Will the Republicans pay me thirty-five hundred a month to canvass for Democrats?

It is obvious that the conflict of interest here is egregious. And now I learn that Karen T is recruiting primary opponents to run against Democrats who boot strapped themselves up to run against Republicans in the last cycle. Great, we already have candidates, and Thurman tries to shoot them down. I guess she doesn't want officeholders who think taking money from Republicans is a disgrace.

Most Democrats are too scared to comment? I couldn't live with myself if I didn't. Bluntly, the Republicans are responsible for the thousands of deaths in Iraq, and their money is dirty.

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