Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher wrote Attorney General Charlie Crist a letter Monday 9delivered simultaneously to the Crist campaign, Republican Party officials and the Florida press corps) asking Crist to reconsider participating in a pair of candidate forums this week in Orlando and West Palm Beach.

Gallagher's two-page letter noted differences between the candidates' platforms, including Crist's indecision over whether to repeal Florida's gay adoption ban, then cautioned Crist that he was "heading down a path that has been blazed and defended by Democrat leaders."