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Q: Just hours after Gov. Charlie Crist shook up the Florida Senate race by announcing he'd run for the seat as an independent, another candidate threw a curve ball: billionaire Jeff Greene officially announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination. 
  
 A minted member of the Forbes 400, Greene has the type of private wealth that can make him a force (and for national Democrats, a headache) in the primary race against Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) Naturally, Democratic officials aren't taking his entree into the race lightly -- expressing moderate frustration with the turn of events. 
  
 But the baggage Greene brings to the race is so profound as to eclipse the "outsider" message on which he is running. It's been widely reported that he got rich on the housing market's collapse; that he took investment advise from John Paulson -- the hedge fund manager at the current center of the controversy surrounding Goldman Sachs; that he counted the mercurial Mike Tyson as a best man at his $1 million wedding; and once lived with the notorious madam Heidi Fleiss. 
  
 "He's renowned for throwing lavish parties,'' his Rabbi, David Baron, told The Miami Herald in December 2009. "If you were single, it was a great place to hang out. There were a lot of terrific women there." 
  
 What is not that well known (at least among those currently chatting about Greene's Senate bid) is that his previous run at elected office was done as a Republican, not a Democrati. Here's the relevant graph from that Miami Herald piece: 
  
 "After growing up a rock-solid Democrat, the Harvard Business School had made him a middle-of-the-road Republican in the 1980s. He ran in a Congressional primary in the San Fernando Valley and lost." 
  
 Which primary he ran in is unclear. A Wall Street Journal profile that mentions the campaign also doesn't list the year. 
  
 Greene did, as reported, return to his "Democratic roots" soon after that election loss. And as his wealth expanded he became a donor to many party candidates. He registered to vote in Florida in March 2008 and did so as a Democrat. 
  
 The evolution was completed on Thursday evening when he formally announced his intentions to run against Meek in the Democratic primary. 
  
 "Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek - they have had their chance. I am sure they mean well, but where are the results?" he said in an announcement video. "They want to give you the false choice between two life-long Republicans and a life-long Democrat. I want to give you a different choice, between three career politicians on one side and an outsider who is willing to shake things up in Washington on the other." 
  
  
  
 Watch Greene's video: 
  
  
  
 UPDATE: Greene consultant Paul Blank explains his Republican past to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post. 
  
 "He's a Democrat with Democratic values," said Blank. "After Harvard Business School, he did run for Congress in California as a Republican -- but obviously, since then he has been a Democrat, a supporter of the Florida Democratic Party, a supporter of Barack Obama." 
  
  ||||| 'Fed up' billionaire Greene launches Florida campaign today 
  
 Florida billionaire Jeff Greene, who is shaking up the wild Senate race with a bid for the Democratic nomination, will announce today that he's running as a "fed up" outsider seeking to channel popular discontent with the poltiical class. 
  
 "Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek – they have had their chance. I am sure they mean well, but where are the results?" Greene says in an announcement video, according to a transcript provided to POLITICO. "They want to give you the false choice between two life-long Republicans and a life-long Democrat. I want to give you a different choice, between three career politicians on one side and an outsider who is willing to shake things up in Washington on the other." 
  
 "I’ve succeeded in the real world of hard work—the others have only succeeded at running for office after office," Greene says. 
  
 Greene, who's advised by Joe Trippi and his colleague Paul Blank, made much of his fortune, estimated at well north of $1 billion, betting against subprime loans, and a person in his camp said he'd spend "whatever it takes" to be elected to the Senate. 
  
 The full transcript of his announcement video is after the jump. 
  
 TRANSCRIPT: 
  
 Are you fed up with the way things are going in Washington and tired of politicians who don’t get anything done? It’s time we had a senator who’s focused on getting results and creating jobs—who will always put the people of Florida first. 
  
 I’m Jeff Greene, and I’m just as frustrated as you are. That’s why I’m running for Senate this year. For too long, the career politicians we’ve sent to Washington have played partisan games, and have failed us. 
  
 Now our country is at risk. Our children’s and our state’s future is in danger, and while Washington drowns in special interest money, the politicians are too caught up playing political games and too busy running for their next office to do the hard work of solving our difficult problems. 
  
 All of the major candidates for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat have been inside the government for the past 10 years—and during those 10 years things have only gotten worse. And all of them have spent most of the past two years running for this office, while Floridians have lost their jobs and their homes, and while Florida’s unemployment rate has gone through the roof and our economy has fallen apart. 
  
 Now, like all career politicians, they want us to reward them for their failure, and elect them to higher office. 
  
 I offer a different choice. 
  
 I am an outsider, the only candidate who isn’t a career politician. I’ve succeeded in the real world of hard work—the others have only succeeded at running for office after office. And I am the only candidate in the race who owes nothing to special interests. I won’t take a penny of special interest money in this campaign or after I am elected – never! In fact, I won’t take a contribution over $100 from anybody. 
  
 I am an independent thinker. I believe in making my own decisions, putting principle before politics, and I’ll stand up to the power brokers in Washington and on Wall Street, and I’ll fight for you. 
  
  
  
  
  
 I understand the struggles working people are facing. I know what hard work means. I’ve worked hard all of my life, built a successful business and created jobs. In the recession of the early 90’s I nearly lost everything. But I fought back, and rebuilt a great company. And, when the market turned this time around – I learned from my mistakes and protected what I had worked for and the jobs I had created. 
  
 When I was young, I watched as my father lost his business and livelihood when New England’s textile mills closed. My Dad never fully recovered from that, and I saw my Mom, who had been a school teacher when I was a child, have to go to work as a waitress to help provide for our family. I know what losing everything means. 
  
 We moved to Florida, but my family still struggled, and I worked multiple jobs to put myself through college at Johns Hopkins and business school at Harvard. 
  
 Today, people in Florida are struggling – for me that struggle is personal. That’s why as Florida’s Senator, job creation will be my number one priority, and like everything I’ve ever done, getting results will be what drives me. 
  
 I have a real plan to create jobs and improve the lives of Florida’s working families. Creating incentives to bring back and keep jobs right here in Florida, providing tax cuts to small businesses, investing in innovation and green technology. And, once and for all, ending our dependence on foreign oil. 
  
 I want every Floridian to be able to live the same American dream that I have lived. 
  
 I have never been afraid to stand alone to accomplish my goals and make a difference. I’ve had the guts to challenge the status quo – I’ve taken on Wall Street, made bold investments and had incredible success. 
  
 I want to shake things up and make Washington understand that you and I mean business. We want results, and we are going to put Florida’s interests first – our children and our working people – not the powerful interests that have their hooks into too many in Washington. Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek – they have had their chance. I am sure they mean well, but where are the results? 
  
 They want to give you the false choice between two life-long Republicans and a life-long Democrat. 
  
 I want to give you a different choice, between three career politicians on one side and an outsider who is willing to shake things up in Washington on the other. 
  
 Between career politicians who think everything is ok as long as they have jobs in public office or an independent thinker who has real experience and knows how to create jobs and gets things done. 
  
 I know what we can accomplish as a nation. America is the greatest place on Earth, and shame on us if we let these politicians in both parties ruin the bright future that rightfully belongs to our children and our grandchildren. 
  
  
  
 Make no mistake about it, I am a Democrat. My parents raised me on Democratic principles and values, but I will take on career politicians in either party, who put playing politics ahead of getting results. 
  
 So get ready for the usual political games. The career politicians in this race are so hungry to hang on to political power, that they will spend time attacking me instead of explaining their records. 
  
 They will attack me for my success in making money – but the fact is, I started with absolutely nothing, and through hard work built business success beyond my wildest dreams. It’s called the American Dream – and I am running to preserve and protect that dream for my six month old son Malcolm and for all of Florida’s children. We all have a duty and a responsibility to do nothing less. 
  
 They will attack me for my friends and my past when I was single. Some of it’s true but none of it matters. I didn’t live my life, looking over my shoulder, worrying about who my friends were, in case I would run for office some day. But this isn’t about the past, it’s about our future. And it’s not about me, it’s about you and the decision you must make. 
  
 Will you choose more of the same? Or will you choose a different approach to our politics and our problems? 
  
 After my parents moved to Florida in 1970, my Dad, who had been a successful small businessman, never regained his footing. Stressed out until the end, he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 51. I think about his struggles every day of my life, and that is why I have always tried to help those who are hurting or who are in pain. The people who are hurting today are the people of Florida. 
  
 You’re the reason I’m running, and you’re the hope for the future of Florida. 
  
 I will do everything I can. I will have a plan that puts Florida and creating jobs here first. And I will get you results. Today I start the campaign to take on the “more of the same” politicians who are running – all of them having the nerve to say they will change things, when they, who have held office year after year are exactly what we need to change! 
  
 Politics is certainly not my career, and this campaign is not about me – it’s about all of us, and whether or not we succeed as a nation. The stakes are high and we must get the job done. 
  
 I will go to Washington to be your voice – and I promise you, that from the first day I take office, they will know we are there. 
  
 I sincerely hope you will join our campaign, and help us to finally make a real difference and save this nation together. Thank you very much. |||||
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Billionaire investor Jeff Greene launched what promises to be a rather colorful campaign for Florida's Democratic Senate nomination today, depicting himself as an outsider who isn't beholden to anyone. “I won’t take a penny of special interest money in this campaign or after I am elected—never!” he declared in his kick-off YouTube video. “In fact, I won’t take a contribution over $100 from anybody.” “ I've taken on Wall Street, made bold investments, and had incredible success” he boasted. He didn't mention that most of those investments were bets against subprime loans, Politico notes. He has other baggage, too. “They will attack me for my friends and my past,” he says. “Some of it's true, but none of it matters.” Friends? Past? Well, Mike Tyson was the best man at his wedding, and he spent a year living with Heidi Fleiss, the Huffington Post reveals. He also ran for office once before—as a Republican.