Breaking: Florida Rethug Lt. Governor Resigns Amidst Scandal

Filed in National by on March 13, 2013

Close ties to both Mitt Romney and former (that sounds so good) Rep. Allen West.  Read the gory details here.

Some excerpts:

Florida’s embattled Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll (R), the first African American elected statewide and first woman to serve as lieutenant governor, has resigned amid a gambling, racketeering, and conflict-of-interest scandal.

“Effective immediately, I hereby resign the Office of Lieutenant Governor of the State of Florida. It has been an honor to have served the State of Florida in this capacity,” Carroll wrote in a brief letter to Gov. Rick Scott (R).

Carroll had been seen as a rising Republican star before a rash of bad headlines. She served as one of the national chairmen for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney‘s “Black Leadership Council” with ex-Rep. Allen West (R-FL) and now-Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).

“In 2011, the Times-Union reported that Carroll used falsified documents to make her firm eligible for a Jacksonville program that offers grants to minority-owned companies. Her firm was located in Clay County, but relied, in part, on falsified lease documents to appear based in Jacksonville, which was a program requirement. Additionally, former Carroll aide Carletha Cole was arrested after being charged with giving a reporter a recording of a secret conversation between her and Carroll’s chief-of-staff. The case has brought a lot of unwanted attention to the Scott administration. In court filings, Cole has accused Carroll of having an inappropriate relationship with another female staff member.”

Seriously, where do they find these people?

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  1. puck says:
    March 13, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    At least Delaware’s Republican candidate for Lt. Governor used 100% AUTHENTIC documents to apply for grants for minority-owned companies.

  2. El Somnambulo says:
    March 13, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    Believe me, I fought with every fiber of my being not to bring our favorite faux Latina into this. Don’t know why.

  3. cassandra m says:
    March 13, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    This is from TPM:

    The owner of Allied Veterans was arrested Tuesday in Oklahoma on charges of racketeering. He is accused of making $290 million after supplying illegal gambling software in Florida and claiming the games’ proceeds would benefit a veterans group. Oklahoma authorities say the group actually received only 1 percent of the money. Chase Egan Burns, 37, and his wife, 38-year-old Kristin Burns, both face extradition to Florida to face the charges. An attorney for Burns did not respond to a request for comment.

    Chase Burns owns International Internet Technologies in Anadarko, about 60 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

    More GOP grifters and this time ripping off a veterans’ group.

  4. El Somnambulo says:
    March 13, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    From what I can make out, the alleged veterans group was phony as well.

  5. kavips says:
    March 13, 2013 at 5:28 pm

    now we are seeing why they are always complaining of “too much regulation..” when actually, there isn’t enough.

  6. YoungWorker says:
    March 14, 2013 at 12:06 am

    Gee, I guess it’s a good thing that Democrats never have these problems.

  7. geezer says:
    March 14, 2013 at 11:02 am

    “Seriously, where do they find these people?”

    It isn’t hard. The whole “conservative movement” is a circular Ponzi scheme at this point.

  8. Truth Teller says:
    March 15, 2013 at 8:51 am

    Haneny of Fox Noise along with Ollie North did the same thing to vets and their wives why hasn’t anything been done there also???

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