Crist Feels at Home as a Democrat

I didn’t leave the Republican Party, it left me. Whether the issue was immigration, or education, or you name it — the environment. I feel at home now.

Charlie Crist on registering as a Democrat

It’s heartening that reasonable Republicans like Crist, Arlen Spector, and Olympia Snowe are disgusted enough with the current fact-averse, ideology-over-country Republican Party leadership that they’re leaving the party. But only our corporate media and those who believe what it tells them can see it as a victory for progressives or the country.

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Quote of the Day: Charlie Crist Against Voter Suppression Laws

Including as many Americans as possible in our electoral process is the spirit of our country. It is why we have expanded rights to women and minorities but never legislated them away, and why we have lowered the voting age but never raised it. Cynical efforts at voter suppression are driven by an un-American desire to exclude as many people and silence as many voices as possible.

- Charlie Crist (July 20, 2012)


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