The state Republican Party is denying the severance agreement (download
here) with Jim Greer is valid, saying the former
chairman didn't sign the documents. Greer's attorney contends otherwise
in a letter to the party written Tuesday (download).
But what is lost is the fact the party offered him a severance
and the party treasurers offered to absolve him,
despite previous denials to the contrary.
Here's Senate President-designate Mike Haridopolos to
Times/Herald reporter Marc Caputo: "We have not signed anything.
There were a lot of papers going back and forth. We want to clean up
this party … There is nothing out there that binds anybody to
anything."
Here's party Chairman John Thrasher to
Times/Herald reporter Steve Bousquet: "There is no document to
that effect to my knowledge."
If you parse the words, they might
wiggle out clean. But Haridopolos definitely signed the documents and
there definitely was a document. (The signature pages are separate
because they were not in one location and were instead faxed.)
The
party says it didn't see a copy with Greer's signature until this week.
Interim Party Director Bret Prater sent this letter to Greer on
Feb. 17, after the revelations of the Delmar Johnson contract,
revoking the offers.
As the party's audit committee prepared to
meet, Greer's attorney sent this
letter outlining reminding the party of the severance
agreement and mentioning the "hush money" allegation.
But a real
feisty letter is
the one Greer's attorney wrote to the party amid the Johnson fallout
that said in part: "For the good of the Party, I respectfully submit
that rather than wasting precious resources attempting to circumvent the
clear and unambiguous obligations the RPOF has to Mr. Greer, you
gentlemen need to be slapping a tourniquet on the incessant hemorrhaging
of confidential internal affairs to the press."
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