One person who won't be coming to the defense of FL GOP chairman Jim Greer? His former executive assistant, Jaimee Colley, who told Buzz she spent a very unpleasant three months working for Greer in 2007. (The party said she was fired within her 90-day probationary period for poor performance).

"I was expecting to be able to write speeches and have more of a role working with politics and working with the Republican party. I started realizing that what I signed up for was basically to be his personal assistant,'' said Colley, who said Greer was constantly "belittling and degrading."

Greer would reprimand the 21-year-old Colley for failing to clean his condo, she said, or for not removing the plastic covering his dry cleaning. She was instructed to schedule massage appointments for his out-of-town travel, and he berated her once when a spa was booked up. "He said, "You need to march back in there and tell them who I am and make sure it gets done,'' she said.

She recalled Greer on a staff retreat once asking her if she wanted a personal or professional relationship. Professional, she said, and soon after she frequently received reprimands for not performing menial tasks well.

At one senior staff meeting Greer sent her a blackberry message instructing her to bring him coffee. She did, and he told her it was too sweet and to get him another.He sent that one back too. "He said you should know better than to bring it in a Styrofoam cup. Go get my Starbucks mug."

"He was not somebody I wanted my name to be associated with,'' Colley said.