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December 22, 2005

Anti-Spam Florida AG Crist Sends Spam

Posted by Eric at 12:26 pm. Filed under: Randomly Interesting

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has been an anti-spam crusader. Here he is quoted in 2004.

“Spam is an annoying, intrusive form of e-mail that almost all of us receive but few of us want. Much of it is just clutter, but some of it can be downright offensive,”

Turns out Crist is now running for Governor and is spamming people. But it’s apparently not spam, according to his political director.

“It’s not spam,” insisted Arlene DiBenigno, Crist’s political director. “It’s political speech. We’re not selling anything, we’re not being deceptive. We love the First Amendment, and there’s nothing more powerful than political speech.”


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