The third party candidate for Florida governor puts Republican A.G. and gubernatorial front-runner Charlie Crist on blast (on a competing morning show, no less...)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has been the subject of speculation for several years but on Wednesday a political opponent used National Coming Out Day to say he's known for years that Crist is gay.
Appearing on WFTL, a South Florida news-talk station, independent gubernatorial candidate Max Linn said it is common knowledge in Tallahassee that Crist is gay.
And, Linn said it is time Crist acknowledged it.
"Charlie come out, come out from wherever you are," Linn said during an interview on the station.
Linn said he has known Crist for 25 years and even worked to help get him elected to other offices and that he's "a good guy."
The Crist campaign said Thursday it would not comment. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, the Democrat running for governor, also declined to comment.
In an August radio interview in Miami Crist denied rumors he is gay when the question was directly put to him.
"The point is, I'm not. There's the answer. How do you like it?" Crist said. "Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say on Seinfeld. But I just happen not to be."
Crist had weathered attacks from state CFO Mike Gallagher, who ran to his right, that he is "soft" on homosexuality, even though he officially opposes gay marriage and gay adoption (Crist says he's for civil unions.) And with the Mark Foley scandal sucking the oxygen out of all other news stories in Washington, it was inevitable that Crist would again be confronted about his sexuality (he is also rumored to have once been roommies with Foley, though no one has implied that the rooming situation was anything other than platonic.)
Crist has been avoiding lots of public appearances lately, and appearing on the conservative leaning station, which also runs Neil Boortz and Dr. Laura, was probably designed to be a safe harbor. Apparently, it wasn't.
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