Author: Dan Christensen
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The Gilzean files: Your governor’s press office in action
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
From time to time, news reporters publish stories that draw reactions from elected leaders or their staff who claim a story is wrong. Occasionally they are right and a correction or even a retraction is published. Mostly, though, the complaints are bogus – intended to intimidate or coerce a minor correction that can be used to try and discredit an entire story. -
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 April. -
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. -
As war in Ukraine rages, Bacardi finds a windfall selling booze to Russians. Ukraine adds Bacardi to list of “war sponsors”
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 liquor giant Bacardi Ltd., whose U.S. operations are based in Coral Gables, publicly pledged its support for Ukraine and announced that it had “paused exports to Russia and froze advertising” there. That was then -
Abu Ghraib torture lawsuit against multi-billion-dollar U.S. Army contractor at last headed for trial
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Twenty years after the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq in the wake of 9/11, a lawsuit against a company that provided “interrogator services” for the U.S. Army at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison finally seems headed to trial. -
Judge in Pensacola terrorist shooting case asks U.S. to declare whether families’ lawsuit against Saudi Arabia should be barred
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The judge in the Pensacola Naval Air Station terrorist shooting case has asked the Biden administration to declare whether victims of the 2019 attack should be barred from suing Saudi Arabia because of “serious and sensitive matters of foreign policy and military affairs.”
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