Pot, meet kettle: CFO candidate Jeremy Ring attacks Jimmy Patronis over his donors

Last week the Jimmy Patronis campaign for chief financial officer launched RingsCriminalRing.com, highlighting shady donors to the campaign for Democrat Jeremy Ring. Now Ring is returning the favor with a site about the "rogues gallery of contributors" to Patronis.

It's called jimmypatronis.info and it features Patronis supporters such as Jay Odom, the Destin developer who served time in prison for campaign finance fraud and had been caught up in a scandal that led to the resignation of former House Speaker Ray Sansom.

"Jimmy Patronis announced a new campaign website designed to impugn the reputation of Jeremy Ring by listing the backgrounds of a handful of his campaign contributors. However, the only thing it exposed was that Jimmy Patronis is just another politician throwing rocks at a glass house," the Ring campaign said in a statement.

"A quick search of contributions to Patronis' campaign accounts through March of this year shows a rogues gallery of contributors, including the ones listed below. Does this make Jimmy Patronis a hypocrite or just incompetent? Or, both?  Either way, this is just further proof that he is unqualified to be Florida's Chief Financial Officer."