Congressman Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburg) released the following statement on Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe's announcement that his administration has restored voting rights for 156,221 individuals in his state. This surpasses the 155,315 Floridians whose voting rights were restored during Crist's tenure as Florida's governor, through his enactment of automatic clemency for non-violent felons after time served. "I applaud Governor McAuliffe's leadership on a moral issue that goes to the h...
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Representative Charlie Crist, Democrat of Florida, has had many identities. Governor. Senate candidate. State attorney general. Education commissioner. State legislator. Democrat. Republican. Independent. Now he has added “congressman” to his résumé, occupying a Capitol Hill office that once belonged to Lyndon B. Johnson and Dick Cheney, after his November election victory in Florida’s 13th District. For a taste of home, he has accessorized with a Tropicana-branded mini-fridge, stocked with oran...
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He's been locked up for decades but some people, including his mother, believe Michael Morgan is an innocent man. Now there's a renewed push to get President Obama to take a closer look at the case and lend support. 10 Investigates has been following the story for years. “This is huge, this is huge.” That how Vel Thompson described a letter that Florida congressman and former governor Charlie Christ sent to the president Friday about her son. “I'm speechless. Do you know how long I have been wai...
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