April 9, 2010 Contact: Rosemary Goudreau, 813-468-0633

What Did Bill McCollum Know and When Did He Know It?

LAKELAND – Attorney General Bill McCollum should come clean about his role in brokering and hiding
the severance deal for Jim Greer, the former chair of the Republican Party of Florida.

And given that McCollum personally benefitted from his association with Greer, he should back away
from the criminal inquiry of this sordid mess.

“Bill McCollum brought a broom to RPOF headquarters, but only to sweep things under the rug,” said
Sen. Paula Dockery, his opponent in the Republican primary for governor of Florida.

“The people of Florida deserve answers about how their chief law enforcement officer acts when he
thinks no one’s watching,” she said. “The last thing they want is a candidate who secretly negotiates a
six-figure deal for a kingpin who claims to have made McCollum the presumptive nominee.”

Specifically, McCollum should say what he knows about Greer’s shell company, which has reportedly
siphoned large sums of donor money from the party.

He also should come clean about his role in the hush-hush package offered Greer, in exchange for
Greer’s silence and departure.

And he should reveal any possible financial dealings with Greer, or with their mutual friend Jim Stelling,
who apparently played a role in negotiating Greer’s severance package.

Despite Florida’s wave of public corruption and public cynicism about government big-spenders,
McCollum has said nothing about his role in the Greer scandal. Neither has he corrected misleading
statements made by others. And neither was he proactive in calling for an investigation. Instead, he sat
silently – broom in hand.

Bill McCollum should come clean on these questions. At the very least, he should admit his conflict of
interest in this case and step aside from the investigation completely.

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