Jeff Greene Continues to Paint Kendrick Meek as Ineffectual Congressman

Building on a point raised in Tuesday nights debate with U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, his chief rival for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate election, billionaire investor Jeff Greene, continued to hammer Meek as an ineffectual congressman on Wednesday. Greene pointed out that not a single bill authored by Meek passed the House in his eight years in Congress and that he had voted three times for congressional pay raises.

"Kendrick Meek has been in office for eight years and has accomplished zero for the people of Florida, said Greene on Wednesday. What he has been able to do is give himself three pay raises and do favors for campaign contributors and special interests."

While Greene tore into Meek during the debate for authoring 70 bills in Congress with not a single one passing, the Greene team increased that number to 80 on Wednesday. Meeks response to this point from Greene during the debate was not a particularly strong one. While saying he had worked on important issues, Meek did not name a piece of legislation of which he was the chief drafter and sponsor. The congressman offered a rambling explanation of how similar bills often are merged together during the committee process -- but legislative linguistics almost never serve politicians well on the campaign trail.