Tag: Walt Disney Company
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Cities, counties brace for Tallahassee to escalate war on home rule for local issues next session
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org The new year promises hopeful resolutions, healthier diets and, in the Florida state Capitol, more pounding away at the battered right of home rule.
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State ethics commissioner Figgers, a DeSantis favorite, snags million dollar contract from Central Florida tourism district run by ex-colleague
UPDATE: Oct. 31 The Orlando Sentinel reports “As Scrutiny Mounts, DeSantis’ Disney District Cancels No-Bid 911 Contract” By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org Oct. 29 – The Florida Commission on Ethics is taking another ethical hit with news of a cozy million-dollar no-bid contract given to one of its members by Gov. Ron DeSantis’s recently retooled Central…
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Defiant Gilzean’s $400K public job ‘inconsistent’ with his ethics commission seat, but he won’t quit
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Like a hooked swordfish, Florida ethics commission chairman Glenton “Glen” Gilzean Jr. is battling to hold onto both his post and his $400,000-a-year public job even as he was handed a legal opinion saying he must choose between them.
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DeSantis appointed, Fl. Senate confirmed Gilzean to ethics post when rules said he was ineligible
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Gov. Ron DeSantis sure loves Glenton “Glen” Gilzean Jr. – so much in fact that he’s appointed Gilzean to the Florida Commission on Ethics three times, in August 2019, December 2020 and again in August 2022. And each time Gilzean’s appointment was later confirmed by the Florida Senate, most recently in…
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State ethics commission chair Gilzean has $400,000 conflict of interest as new boss of Disney’s usurped special district
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida Commission on Ethics Chairman Glenton “Glen” Gilzean Jr. has an ethical problem – an unacknowledged conflict of interest.
