Token - #314

#314 MEL MARTINEZ
FORMER SENATOR FOR FLORIDA

Martinez announced he was quitting the Senate to "spend more time with my family."

Uh-oh.
That is a dead-bang indication that an indictment is set to come down the pipe somewhere and Martinez is trying the old Republican trick of, "Well, all they want is my seat. Once I'm gone, the case will disappear. It's all political." Martinez had already admitted that he was not going to run again and it was well known that Florida Governor Charlie Crist was going to run for the seat.

Martinez had to be the most famous token on the Republican side of the aisle, with the possible exception of J.C. Watts of Oklahoma. (One of the reasons Watts declined to run again for Congress was he was sick and tired of GOP Cocksuckers posing with him in pictures for legislation he had nothing to do with.)

Ever since The Thumpin in 2006, the GOP was practically tearing its hair out trying to figure out a way to get Latino support. True to form, they picked Martinez as their token, figuring being able to say, "Hey we got a Cuban! We're not all a

buncha white people!" was some kind of a plus. After 10 months on the job of putting up with crap like this, Martinez' self-respect came to the fore because GOP Cocksuckers kept screaming about how immigration was a big problem--but only
on the southern border, not the northern one--you know, the one the terrorists came across when they flew planes into the World Trade Center?

A year later, insulted Latinos abandoned the GOP in droves, voting for President Obama. He got 80% of them. (The GOP Cocksuckers haven't learned anything, either. Who was the Republicans' pick to run the DNC after the 2008 bitchslapping by blacks?
Michael 'The Muppet' Steele, or as they call him, "OUR nigger.")

So why does he make the list? Well , number one, Martinez was one of three senators PRESENT who voted for the Palm Sunday Compromise, which was basically a bill of attainder moving the Terri Schaivo case into federal court, where Schaivo's parents proceeded to lose every single filing they made.

Number two is a classic GOP Cocksucker failing, he never admits doing anything wrong. It's always someone ELSE'S fault. Need proof? Okay. Remember the Schaivo case? Martinez accidentally passed a memo to Iowa Senator Thomas Harkin that outlined the advantages to the GOP of the Schaivo affair. But when the memo became public, Martinez pinned the blame on ex-attorney Brian Darling, saying Darling
had written it and he had known nothing about it.

How about more? When a flier came out during the 2004 Republican primary that linked his then opponent, Bill McCollum, to the "radical homosexual lobby," Martinez blamed a staffer for it.

Or maybe this one? When his campaign office circulated a news release saying that federal agents enforcing the law in the Elian Gonzalez case were "armed thugs," again it was the fault of a staffer who had written it, not him.

Now Gov. Crist, who wants the seat so badly his mouth tastes of warm spit, has littered his office with hurled objects from his desk at the idea of "that spic fuck!" for resigning early because Crist doesn't dare appoint himself. He was all set to run after his term as governor expired and now, he has to appoint somebody ELSE.

[UPDATE: Crist appointed George LeMieux to serve out the rest of Martinez term.]

S. Olson