Category: Legislature
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Alarming South Florida eviction shows ease of separating Florida homeowners from their equity
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
On April 10, when Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies arrived at a Lake Worth address to evict 63-year-old Deborah Megna, the ailing woman had to be helped onto a stretcher and taken to a nearby hospital. -
Florida CFO Ingoglia talks transparency, accountability but fails to deliver as $342 million in CFO contracts remain hidden
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has been touring the state touting the importance of fiscal transparency and accountability, but his own agency has been violating a key fiscal transparency law that helps the public hold the government accountable. -
Lawmakers rubber stamp false report about key transparency law despite $6 billion in missing contracts
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
A legislative committee tasked with being a fiscal watchdog for the state approved a report falsely stating that the requirements of a key financial transparency law have been met despite clear evidence of chronic, widespread violations of the law. -
Florida taxpayers paid $1.72 million to compensate ‘wrongly incarcerated’ Sidney Holmes. Did the state get it right?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The State v. Sidney Lamar Holmes is finally over. After 34 years behind bars, he’s now two years out of prison. And with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature this month on a special appropriation to compensate Holmes, unanimously passed by the Legislature, Florida’s taxpayers are out $1.72 million. -
Firms belonging to wife of Rep. Donalds grabbed millions in charter school contracts
By Will Bredderman
FloridaBulldog.org
For years, Erika Donalds has used her perch atop the nonprofit Optima Foundation—not to mention her marriage to U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Naples), now a top contender for governor—to make herself a force in Florida’s charter school movement. But materials filed with Florida’s Auditor General show… -
Longtime NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer, 86, opens fire on NRA, claims it abandoned her, breached $220K-a-year contract
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
At 86, lobbyist and grandma Marion Hammer remains ready to rumble – this time against her once steadfast ally, the National Rifle Association.
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