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Experts says Kendrick Meek is wrong to blame Jeff Greene for making investments in credit default swaps

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The Tampa Tribune examines Jeff Greene’s decision to purchase credit default swaps: A CDS is a way of hedging a bet on an investment such as a loan or a purchase of securities. In effect, it’s an insurance policy that pays off if the borrower fails to repay, or if the securities default. Greene’s innovation was to buy CDS’s on securities he didn’t own, making them “uncovered” or “naked” CDS’s – insurance policies on investments actually owned by others. Sensing…

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Jeff Greene blasts Kendrick Meek’s ties to developer charged with fraud

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Kendrick Meek’s rival in the Democratic Senate primary, Jeff Greene, wasted little time before seizing on today’s Miami Herald story showing his family’s ties to an accused crook. “Kendrick Meek’s behavior is completely outrageous,” Greene said in a statement. “We can no longer let the corrupt actions of these failed career politicians stand. Kendrick Meek is in the back pockets of the insidious special interests that are hurting our country and it must end now.”

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Jeff Greene blasts Meek’s ties to developer charged with fraud

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Kendrick Meek’s rival in the Democratic Senate primary, Jeff Greene, wasted little time before seizing on today’s Miami Herald story showing his family’s ties to an accused crook. “Kendrick Meek’s behavior is completely outrageous,” Greene said in a statement. “We can no longer let the corrupt actions of these failed career politicians stand. Kendrick Meek is in the back pockets of the insidious special interests that are hurting our country and it must end now.”

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Thanks to spouse, Charlie Crist is richest of the three leading U.S. Senate candidates.

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Charlie Crist is worth far more than either of the other leading candidates for U.S. Senate, Kendrick Meek and Marco Rubio – thanks to the assets of Crist’s wife, Carole Rome. Florida Trend reports that Crist, the Florida governor and no party affiliation candidate for U.S. Senate reported assets worth $466,063 in his annual state disclosure last year. Rome’s assets didn’t have to be included. In a federal disclosure, which requires candidates to list all marital assets, Crist lists between…

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Charlie Crist supports Elena Kagan nomination

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The St. Petersburg Times’ Adam Smith just tweeted: “Charlie Crist on Elena Kagan: ‘I think she’d do a great job’” Now this could get interesting: I’m told that Dem Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is about to call on Charlie Crist to reveal whether he’d vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Crist, intriguingly, has not said anything substantial about Kagan since her nomination was announced some 72 hours ago. Meek immediately released a statement strongly supporting the choice; Marco Rubio has come…

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Charlie Crist to register with no party affiliation (day after I wrote about how he was still a registered Republican)

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Charlie Crist says he’ll stop by a county elections office to register with no party affiliation on a Wednesday trip to his hometown of St. Petersburg, a day after I wrote on my other blog, Battleground Tampa Bay, about how Crist was still a registered Republican. Crist will visit the Supervisor of Elections office in St. Petersburg at 2:45 p.m. Crist has already announced he’s leaving the Republican Party to make an independent run for U.S. Senate. He said Tuesday…

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Big donors face question: Demand refund from Charlie Crist?

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Charlie Crist‘s decision to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent has left a bunch of big-name contributors with a decision to make: Do they follow the angry dictate of furious Republican Party officials and demand their money back? Or not? For many longtime Crist supporters — some of whom go back to his first statewide campaign in 1998 — it’s a tough call. Consider Ben Hill Griffin III of the big Florida citrus and political family. “Right now I’m…

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