MIAMI-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As the April 30th\u00a0 Florida deadline to switch parties approaches, and amid the continued media chatter\u00a0over\u00a0a Crist 3rd party run, the head of the Charlie Crist\u00a0campaign\u00a0firmly denies\u00a0that the Republican Senate candidate\u00a0will run as\u00a0an independent.<\/p>\n
“To put these rumors to rest once and for all, as we have said countless times\u00a0before, Governor Crist is running for the United States Senate as a Republican. He will not run as an Independent or as a No Party Affiliation,” Campaign manager Erik Eikenberg\u00a0said in a press release today\u00a0“The Governor is proud of his conservative credentials and stands firmly behind the principles of limited government and more personal freedom, the bedrock values of the Republican Party. He is proud to be a member of the Party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.”<\/p>\n
Eikenberg\u00a0blames\u00a0the\u00a0Rubio\u00a0campaign for\u00a0helping to spread “baseless rumors” of a possible Crist independent run to “distract voters” from, his primary opponent,\u00a0Marco Rubio’s record.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact of the matter is, Speaker Rubio double billed taxpayers for flights, charged everything from his family reunion to car repairs to the Republican Party, and used political committees as his personal slush fund \u2013 so it should come as no surprise that he and his campaign will try whatever methods possible to change the subject as voters begin scrutinizing his record,” Eikenberg writes. \u201cThis\u00a0should completely and utterly put to rest any of the unfounded rumors coming from the Rubio campaign that Governor Crist would run as anything other than the Republican that he is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
FULL CRIST CAMPAIGN STATEMENT:<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n TALLAHASSEE<\/span><\/span> \u2013 The Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate campaign released the below statement from Campaign Manager Eric Eikenberg in response to the Rubio campaign\u2019s continual attempts to distract voters from the Speaker\u2019s lengthy legislative record:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSpeaker Rubio and his campaign have spent this entire race trying to distract voters from learning about his actual record, whether it be his votes for tax increases, support for\u00a0cap and trade and a carbon tax, his flip flop on immigration reform,\u00a0or his questionable financial dealings.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe fact of the matter is, Speaker Rubio double billed taxpayers for flights, charged everything from his family reunion to car repairs to the Republican Party, and used political committees as his personal slush fund \u2013 so it should come as no surprise that he and his campaign will try whatever methods possible to change the subject as voters begin scrutinizing his record.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cInstead of being open and honest with voters and owning up to the thousands of dollars that remain unaccounted for from his political committees and releasing his tax returns, the Rubio campaign would prefer to spread baseless rumors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo put these rumors to rest once and for all, as we have said countless times\u00a0before, Governor Crist is running for the United States Senate as a Republican. He will not run as an Independent or as a No Party Affiliation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Governor is proud of his conservative credentials and stands firmly behind the principles of limited government and more personal freedom, the bedrock values of the Republican Party. He is proud to be a member of the Party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis\u00a0should completely and utterly put to rest any of the unfounded rumors coming from the Rubio campaign that Governor Crist would run as anything other than the Republican that he is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ###<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MIAMI-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As the April 30th\u00a0 Florida deadline to switch parties approaches, and amid the continued media chatter\u00a0over\u00a0a Crist 3rd party run, the head of the Charlie Crist\u00a0campaign\u00a0firmly denies\u00a0that the Republican Senate candidate\u00a0will run as\u00a0an independent. “To put these rumors to rest once and for all, as we have said countless times\u00a0before, Governor Crist is running for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}