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GOP Consultant, 2 Men Found Dead in Fla.

AP

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Repub­li­can polit­i­cal con­sul­tant and two oth­er men were found dead in a home in an appar­ent dou­ble-mur­der and sui­cide, author­i­ties and rel­a­tives said.

Author­i­ties have not deter­mined a motive for the deaths of Ralph Gon­za­lez, 39, his room­mate, David Abra­mi, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30.

Inves­ti­ga­tors found weapons and signs of a strug­gle in the house, but they did not say what the weapons were or which man they believe was the killer. The men are believed to have died sev­er­al days before the bod­ies were dis­cov­ered Thurs­day.

Gon­za­lez was exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty from 2001–2002. He man­aged U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney’s 2002 cam­paign and was pres­i­dent of Strategum Group, an Orlan­do-based polit­i­cal con­sult­ing firm that rep­re­sents Repub­li­can can­di­dates.

“He was a born polit­i­cal con­sul­tant. He had brava­do, he was intense, and he lived and breathed tac­tics and strat­e­gy,” Feeney said. “He was an advis­er and strate­gist for me and became a very good friend.”

Abra­mi, an attor­ney, was active in Repub­li­can pol­i­tics as well.

Gon­za­lez, the son of Cuban immi­grants, was devot­ed to pol­i­tics even as a youth, said his father, Rafael Gon­za­lez of Mia­mi. He grad­u­at­ed from Flori­da Inter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty and received his mas­ter’s degree in cam­paign man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da.

“He was a smart per­son who built a busi­ness by him­self,” Rafael Gon­za­lez said. “He trav­eled all over the world.”

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