I'm Alex Sink and I'm Kind of a Big Deal

My Office Is Filled With Democrat Operatives and Leather Bound Books and Smells of Fine Mahogany

I’m Alex Sink and I’m Kind of a Big Deal

Tallahassee—The St. Pete Times reports today that Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is essentially campaigning for statewide office already…from her current statewide office. Which means taxpayers are paying for her campaign.

The Times notes that Sink is staffing up with Democrat operatives from Planned Parenthood and the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. The article also highlights Sink’s recent high-profile political attacks on Republican elected officials and says, “She has added veteran political hands to her office payroll. And at a time when many state politicians are consumed with the budget crisis in Tallahassee, Sink has been organizing campaign fundraising receptions from Tallahassee to Tampa to Miami.”

“Alex Sink is clearly running for statewide office, and she’s doing it on the taxpayers’ dime through a not-so-stealthy stealth campaign run out of the first floor of Florida’s Capitol building,” said RPOF Chairman Jim Greer. “Her campaign staff should be moved off the state payroll immediately so that Florida’s taxpayers do not have to foot any more of the bill for Alex Sink’s campaign.”

The St. Pete Times continues, “In January, her office issued nine press releases, compared with 15 so far this month. In recent days she has been front and center at a PTA rally in Tallahassee, and holding news conferences…She has brought in a politically savvy new deputy chief of staff, Stephanie Grutman, who previously worked with U.S. Rep. Ron Klein and with Planned Parenthood. Her new communications director, Jennings, is a veteran of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.”

“Alex Sink has her campaign staff in place and she has held at least three fundraisers this month alone,” concluded Greer. “Alex Sink is running an active campaign and Florida’s taxpayers are footing the bill.”

Yesterday, Sink suggested that it might be a good idea for the state to buy toxic assets that banks and private investors won’t touch.

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