{"id":726926,"date":"2010-04-30T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83599"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:33:44","slug":"meltdown-mogul-enters-florida-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/726926","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Meltdown Mogul\u2019 Enters Florida Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83582\/crist-makes-it-official\">the Florida Senate race drama had stabilized<\/a> for a few hours, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equitiesmagazine.com\/interview_jeff_greene.php\">Jeff Greene<\/a>. Greene, a real estate billionaire, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/04\/30\/1605888\/billionaire-democrat-vying-for.html\">reportedly preparing to announce his candidacy<\/a> today, just hours before the candidate filing deadline in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the guy has plenty of cash to fuel a last-minute campaign, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/money\/monday-meeting-with-jeff-greene-founder-of-florida-610314.html\">check out how he got all that money:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Greene earned more than $800 million by betting against the sub-prime  mortgage  market during the recent real estate boom. He&#8217;s been called &#8220;The  Meltdown Mogul&#8221; and &#8220;The Reluctant Billionaire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can almost hear the campaign commercials now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the Florida Senate race drama had stabilized for a few hours, meet Jeff Greene. Greene, a real estate billionaire, is reportedly preparing to announce his candidacy today, just hours before the candidate filing deadline in Florida. Sure, the guy has plenty of cash to fuel a last-minute campaign, but check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-336C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828478,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726926\/revisions\/828478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}