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

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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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Florida CFO Wants the State to Buy Toxic Assets

That's right--Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink declared today that she would consider having Florida buy toxic assets. That means you, the taxpayers, buying up bad, risky assets that no one else wants.

The RPOF just issued the following release:

Banks Don’t Want ‘Em, Investors Don’t Want ‘Em, But Alex Sink Does!

Tallahassee—As if Florida families don’t have enough to worry about, the Associated Press reports today that the state’s Chief Financial Officer Official wants to buy toxic assets for investment purposes.

“There is a reason they’re called ‘toxic,’” noted RPOF Chairman Jim Greer. “The federal government doesn’t want them and private investors don’t want them. Why should the people of Florida?”

“Alex Sink may be willing to make a deal with devil to in an attempt to enhance Florida’s investment portfolio, but taxpayers will not support this incredibly risky move with their dollars. As a former bank executive, Alex Sink should know the perilous potential outcome of even considering purchasing toxic assets, which could damage the entire state’s credit and hurt taxpayers.”