More Rumors About Crist

Is G.O.P. candidate Crist STRAIGHT? Was he into SEED?

According to Radar Online and other sources, Charlie Crist -- the GOP's candidate to replace
Jeb Bush as Governor of Florida -- has long been considered yet another of the many Republican leaders who enjoy the company of, um, other men.



Crist has denied the accusation; there are claims that he has been dating an
unnamed woman. (Of course, the studios used to arrange "dates" for
Rock Hudson.) At 23, Crist entered into an extremely brief marriage which, according to one friend, threw him into a uncharacteristically deedepression.



But our tale concerns much more than these rumors of the candidate's sexual
identity.



1. This blog offers an interesting tidbit which I would like to see confirmed:

Charlie Crist, the GOP candidate for Fla. gov., is also supposedly only
half-closeted and was Foley's roommate when he and Foley served in the Fla.
Leg. together.

2. Foley supported Mel Sembler, the head of the notorious Straight program and its
offshoots. Allegedly an anti-drug project, Straight has achieved notoriety for
its horrible record of child abuse. Young people were beaten, degraded,
dehumanized, ill-fed, forced to wallow in feces and urine, etc.



If you're not up to speed on Sembler, start here.



3. Mel Sembler has provided strong financial backing for Crist.



The ties between Crist and the Sembler family are not just financial. I urge
readers (especially those who live in Florida) to publicize this 2002 piece by Wesley Fager, who has done so much to expose Sembler's child
abuse.



Fager's piece suggests that Crist (who passed his bar exam "on the third
try") was appointed by Jeb to serve as Florida's Attorney General to make
sure that Mel Sembler could avoid legal troubles:

While you might want Charlie Crist to look into the activities of Straight,
Inc., Crist could feel some sort of obligation to Straight cofounder Mel
Sembler. After all, the Semblers are big financial backers of Crist and
Florida's Republican Party.

More than that. Since high school, Crist has been friends with Brent Sembler,
son of Mel Sembler. They spend a great deal of time together on Crist's boat. This
story from the St. Petersburg Times refers to Brent as simply a
'developer," even though he is actually the vice chairman of his father's
company.



Let us delve deeper still.



We still do not know quite how Mel Sembler first became involved with
institutionalized child abuse, but we do know that Straight is a direct
descendant of the SEED, which was exposed by an early-70s congressional
investigation as an abusive mind control operation. Revelations about Seed
sparked a national controversy at the time.



Brent Sembler (according to Fager) was in the Seed program as a young man. At
the same time, he befriended Charlie Crist. This odd confluence of events
naturally leads one to ask: Was Crist also a Seed "graduate"? Is
that how he and Mel Sembler's son formed a lifelong friendship?



Apparently, Crist's father (who still gives his son daily advice) was also
linked to the notorious Seed:

How in the world did Dr. Charles J. Crist, MD, then vice chairman of the
Pinellas County School Board (other times its chairman) get involved in The
Seed? According to the local newspaper, not only was he on The Seed's
Advisory Board, but on several occasions he asked the school system to
cooperate with The Seed.

As noted earlier, Jeb Bush appointed Crist to a position where he could quash
many of the Sembers' legal troubles. The Bush family and the Semblers have
long been allies; Mel's wife -- Brent's mother -- was the finance co-chair for
one of Jeb's gubernatorial campaigns.



Something's going on here, folks.