"I believe in family values"

"I believe in family values," Stelling testified Tuesday.

The Tallahassee Democrat picked up a story from the AP Wire regarding the Seminole County GOP Chair Jim Stelling. It seems Mr. Stelling narrowly lost his bid for RPOF Chair in 2003 because Nancy Goettman, now of Texas, sent a letter to their eligible voters pointing out that he had been married six times and accused him of spousal abuse. The judge found in favor of Mr. Stelling because there is no proof of spousal abuse and because Mr. Stelling has only been married five times.

The current chair of the RPOF is Carole Jean Jordan who narrowly beat Mr. Stelling in an election held days after the letter was mailed out. Mr. Stelling quickly took his complaint to court to try to repair his good name.

After a lot of negative talk about this last weekend's FDP chair election, which ended up running very smoothly and without controversy, reading this in the paper today reminded me that every political organization has at least a little infighting amongst their leadership.

UPDATE:
Check out this story from the Orlando sentinel Democrats on upswing in Seminole