Veteran Republican Legislator Blasts Florida GOP

Nancy Argenziano

BRADENTON -- Former Republican state legislator Nancy Argenziano who spent 16 years as a Florida Senator, state representative and then the Florida Public Service Commission ripped off a seething indictment of the current crop of Republican legislators who she claims "make it bad for the Republican Party and honest Republicans."

In the lengthy guest editorial titled Things are Worse than You Think, published Sunday in the Citrus County Chronicle, Argenziano railed against Republicans at all levels including current Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos.

"I will not defend the ”R“ Senate president who stridently squawks for smaller government yet has taken three government salaries – tax paid – ostensibly as a professor," wrote Argenziano, "not to teach, but to take three years to write a book on politics, achieving a kindergarten level of literacy of which the college only had one single copy of.

The former legislator also took aim at the national party, saying, "contrary to the current crop of Republican leaders, I do not want Halliburton in charge of the Pentagon, BP heading up the Department of Environmental Protection, or Enron making energy policy."

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