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GOP Consultant and Rep. Tom Feeney friend
Ralph Gonzalez was found dead in an Orange County, Florida home,
yesterday, alongside two other bodies, all of whom had been there since
possibly Tuesday. Authorities gave next to no details whatsoever as to
what the hell was going on, except that it looked like a
“murder-suicide.”
You can read Gonzalez’s impressive bio on the still-active website of his oddly spelled consulting firm:
Prior to founding the Strategum Group, Ralph served at the
Republican Party of Florida’s House Campaign Division, as Executive
Director of the Georgia Republican Party, and is a veteran of dozens of
campaigns across Florida, from Mayoral Races to Congressional. He also
has international political experience, helping to manage a campaign on
the Island of St. Maarten.
Strategum’s client list — mostly southern state reps — includes a
couple notably corrupt pols, including the aforementioned Feeney and
former State Rep. Sheri McInvale, once indicted for taxpayer fraud. And
CrimeBlog finds that Gonzalez
spent a large part of his career just a couple degrees of separation
away from Jack Abramoff (Ralph Reed gets around!).
And hey — Florida Today
ran a story that this morning referred to an unnamed “detective” who
called the deaths the result of a “lovers’ quarrel,” though,
mysteriously, that language seems to have disappeared from their AP
report.
One of the other victims was a man named David Abrami — apparently
Gonzalez’s roommate and a former president, naturally, of the Central
Florida Young Republicans. Not much has been found about the third
body, that of Robert Drake, whom cops are suggesting is the one who
shot these two GOP operatives before turning the gun on himself.
http://wonkette.com//politics/through-the-looking-glass-dept%27/
RALPH GONZALEZ (President)
Ralph
Gonzalez received his Masters of Arts in Campaign Management from the
University of Florida in 1994, and his B.A. in Political Science from
Florida International University.
Prior
to founding the Strategum Group, Ralph served at the Republican Party
of Florida’s House Campaign Division, as Executive Director of the
Georgia Republican Party, and is a veteran of dozens of campaigns
across Florida, from Mayoral Races to Congressional. He also has
international political experience, helping to manage a campaign on the
Island of St. Maarten.
Ralph
Gonzalez's national and international political experience, his
experience and understanding of the political and legislative process,
in conjunction with his unique political instincts, has made him a
first class asset to political candidates and organizations.
Ralph was born in Miami, speaks fluent Spanish, and currently resides in Orlando.
http://www.strategumusa.com/staff.html
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