Crist fires longtime communications director

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Want another sign that Gov. Charlie Crist is panicking about his Florida Senate primary against Marco Rubio? The governor fired his longtime communications director, Erin Isaac, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

After a spate of bad press, sources are saying Gov. Charlie Crist has fired longtime communications director Erin Isaac.

Isaac has not returned messages this morning, and Crist press secretary Sterling Ivey said he had not heard anything about it. But two sources close to the situation say the governor made the decision last night.

Isaac came on board during Crist’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign and rose to communications director when Vivian Myrtetus left in early 2008. She’s been an influential adviser to an image-obsessed governor, so her dismissal speaks volumes to Crist’s sagging fortunes.

But it would follow two weeks of unbelievably bad press in which Crist denied he knew that President Obama was visiting troops in Jacksonville, and then denied he ever "endorsed" the president's economic stimulus package despite campaigning with Obama for its passage in Fort Myers.

And more bad news for Crist: The paper also front-pages news that attorney Scott Rothstein, one of Crist's biggest financial backers, is being accused of swindling clients in a major Ponzi scheme.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1109/Crist_fires_longtime_communications_director.html?showall

[Lasher]

1. Ha ha ha, bring it on all you Ross Perot tea baggers!

Purify that GOP, yessir! Don't let a single RINO survive! Orly Taitz would make a great communications director for Governor Crist.

[Kdillard]

2. Wow ouch for Crist.