Dermatology Assistant Resigns as Florida's Public Employee Relations Chair

Sometimes you can make a difference.

Days after Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced that he was no different than most of the Republican thugs leading this country by appointing the wife of his general counsel to serve as the chairman of the Public Employees Relations Commission, she has resigned.

Crist had touted her "advanced" degree (master's from the College of Medicine at the University of Florida) and figured that her experience as a dermatology assistant was just what the state needed to deal with Florida's public employees and help spend the $98,000 a year salary.

The uproar over the appointment and the pall it cast upon Crist's "golden boy who could do no wrong" image, seems to have forced this ill conceived appointment back to where it belonged - nipped and tucked!

•  She got a better job offer.

  Sucking boils on lazy assed Republican asses.

  by alasmoses on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 12:51:30 PM PDT

  •  insulting to boil-suckers, imho, eom

    by voila on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 12:58:10 PM PDT

•  GatorDem has pointed out in the past

  that Crist was susceptible to being shamed like this. We definitely need to do more of it.

  Maybe he really is a Democrat. Most Republicans just laugh at you when you accuse them of something like this.

  by Tally on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:04:46 PM PDT

  •  He's no Democrat

    He just doesn't like anything that tarnishes that golden image of his. So if you can make him look bad, like he was made to look after this spectacularly poor appointment, you can get him to do what you want.

    Florida Kossacks Rock

    Blog Florida Blue

    by gatordem on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 04:14:16 PM PDT

•  he's...

  married? oh, that's right she's his beard.
  tung sol

  by tung sol on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:16:17 PM PDT

•  Show us nekkid pics of her. n/t

  by Abra Crabcakeya on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:16:26 PM PDT

•  Of course she had to resign.

  Crist realized that without his trusty Dermatology Assistant, he wouldn't have anyone who could evenly apply his spray-on tan.

  

  It's either that, or Florida has an Oompa-Loompa for a governor.

  by Dewey Kneadleeders on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 01:37:28 PM PDT

  •  Hey, That's My Oompa Loompa

    you're talking about. Chas is very image-conscious. Too bad he's not more conscious.

    by FLDemJax on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 03:47:07 PM PDT