Tag: Don Gaetz
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Lobbyist Marion Hammer’s NRA sugar daddy LaPierre is gone, but she’s still riding high on NRA cash
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre’s ticket to ride the NRA’s gravy train was canceled last week with a New York jury’s widely reported corruption findings, but his longtime Florida collaborator Marion Hammer continues riding high on NRA millions he funneled to her. -
N.Y. figured out NRA’s dishonesty, but Florida Senate, ethics commission bootlicked NRA’s Hammer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Corruption. The dictionary defines it as “dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people.” How else to explain the failures of both the Florida Senate and the Florida ethics commission to hold powerful National Rifle Association lobbyist and board member Marion Hammer accountable for not disclosing more than $1.7 million in arguably illegal payments she received from the NRA between 2007 and 2018? -
Pretzel logic, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer and the Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Why did the Florida ethics commission vote to let NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer off without sending her case to the governor and cabinet for a possible public hearing, further investigation and, if necessary, an “appropriate penalty’’? The answer involves a kind of pretzel logic… -
Florida gives $3.8 million to Lauren’s Kids charity after questionable poll on sex abuse
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Before Florida gave it another $3.8 million this month, the politically-connected charity Lauren’s Kids published the results of an alarming online survey about child abuse whose trustworthiness can’t be verified. -
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Senate push to expand lobbyist registration to special districts like Broward Health
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A bill to broaden water management district lobbyist registration rules to apply to hospital districts, expressway and port authorities, children’s services districts and other special taxing districts with budgets in excess of $5 million is moving through the Florida Senate. -
New law drives lobbyists out of the shadows at state water management districts
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Florida’s five water management districts, special-purpose governments that collectively will spend $1.1 billion next year, have publicly registered 250 special-interest lobbyists since new registration requirements took effect July 1.
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