If you live in South Florida, you witnessed first-hand a nasty bit of weather today. After the morning rain subsided, I made my way up to Coral Springs to say hello to my ole buddy Senator George LeMieux, who was having lunch at a popular wings eatery. Senator LeMieux has just recently been appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to fill out the remainder of former Senator Mel Martinez’s term LeMieux moved to Coral Springs in the 1970’s and attended Coral Springs High School- which also happens to be the alma mater of your humble and lovable correspondent. Yes the Senator and I are fellow Colts, but Sen. LeMieux graduated a few years before I did.
The Senator entered the restaurant with his lovely wife Mieke who had another little one in-tow. The LeMieux’s are expecting their fourth child in early spring. I see a trend here with Senators and future Senators from Florida and four children (Marco Rubio also has four children). The Senator made his way around the room and then engaged me several times to talk about the good old days.
Senator LeMieux is the Governor Crist’s former Chief of Staff and his close confidant. While he was still acting in his capacity as adviser, LeMieux advised the Governor to endorse the Obama stimulus plan earlier this year. He spoke briefly about our respective ‘dogs’ in the Florida Senate race-his Crist, mine Rubio- before he agreed to sit down with me and answer a few questions. The Governor has taken a serious hit in the polls against Marco Rubio over the past several months. In addition, Rubio has been receiving support from major conservative personalities, and just today, the loveable little fuzzball himself, Rush Limbaugh, mentioned him again on his radio show.
Rush Limbaugh audio interview.
Kudos to you Senator, for sitting down with me and answering my questions- and not being intimidated by my dashing good looks and infectious personality. I have been critical of Senator LeMieux in the past, but he is a gracious man with a charming family.
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I would like to make the following correction. On Tuesday, it was reported that I had posed for a picture with Governor Crist at the BREC. I initially denied the allegation, but photographic evidence was subsequently brought to my attention that I can no longer deny.
9 Responses to “Senator LeMieux Talks Politics over Chicken Wings”
Great post Javier!! I heard you on Joyce talking about the supposed photo with Crist…nice photoshop job
Is Lemieux a R(h)INO like Crist? Gonna watch the video!!
Love your “Reid” question….I would BARF if I had to be near him!
NOW IF GOV.CRIST WOULD BE HONEST AND ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE LEMIEUX DID WITH JAVIER…PEOPLE WHOULD HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR CRIST!
Good Video with Senator LeMieux. I can see why he has to support Gov. Chris..Smart move on Gov. Chris to appoint him and keep him from running for the Senate seat. He does sound like a Conservative and Chris is not.
LeMieux a conservative?? Please…. He’s one of the most liberal people in the Republican Party today. No one is fooled by his pandering. He gives a great interview. That’s about it.
EXCELLENT interview; Both Sen LeMieux and Javier appeared relaxed and up front w/ each other. Sen LeMieux answered questions, some were tough, with candor, honesty, and explanations. Hopefully, w/ this interview more and more will see that Sen LeMieux was a great choice by our Governor to be our Senator.
Once again, execellent interview, thanks for sharing
Whew, so glad to know that the pic with Christ was photoshopped. It makes the humble correspondent look like either a pinhead or a microcephalic, and I know that simply cannot be true
Javier, I commend you, excellent interview…loved the way you kept coming back to the stimulus question…cool ending, he was very gracious, i thought! Happy Thanksgiving
George is so in the Dark. The photography is not just a film noire metaphor. Any conservative worth his salt, and most said so at the time, knew that this “stimulus” would not work. Since the passing of this black hole of debt, every calamity that the proponents of spending stoked us in fear of has occurred, no, actually worse has occurred. And worse will continue because the Toxic Assets are still there, and commerical real estate is tanking big time.
To claim that we needed a crystal ball to fortell the future to know this, and then take partial credit for any “positive” benefits that the trillions of corrupt spending provided is to abandon any shred of credibility.
Where is the accountability?
Any fool selected from the phone book to fill this caretaker office knows that the Train will fail too.
If Amtrak cannot make money after 35 years of trying, how come this time it will be different?
To propose more debt for a train that Florida has specifically and overwhelming rejected as a part of our CONSTITUTION is to underline and make bold bright lines around the fact that this man will do almost ANYTHING without regard to the constitution or the will of the people.
Will LeMueix now reject the Global warming farce?