Florida Republican Party

FLASHBACK: Greer Made Big Show Of Cutting Up His AmEx Card (It Wasn't His)

Justin Elliott | June 2, 2010, 1:35PM

Former Florida Republican Party Chair Jim Greer cutting up an AmEx card on August 22, 2009

In August 2009, with a burgeoning spending scandal already producing damaging headlines for the Florida Republican Party, state GOP chair Jim Greer appeared before a quarterly party meeting in Orlando and made a show of taking out a pair of scissors and cutting up his party-issued American Express card.

Except, we learn today in the arrest affidavit for Greer, it was not Greer's card at all -- and party staff had to scramble to stop the media from seeing the cut card.

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