Category: Legislature
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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. -
Florida ethics commission chair quits after conflict-of-interest exposed
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida ethics commission chairman Glenton “Glen” Gilzean Jr. resigned Tuesday, opting instead to hold onto his $400,000-a-year job as administrator of the Central Florida special district that Florida removed from the control of the Walt Disney Company. -
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. -
Florida’s befuddling new voting laws all but guarantee widespread chaos in next year’s elections
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Floridians of every political persuasion who want to vote or help get out the vote in the 2024 elections must navigate a bog of confounding and scary new rules, courtesy of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration. -
Justice Canady ignores his conflict of interest in high-profile abortion ban case
By Dan Christensen and Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady has an undeclared conflict of interest amid the high court’s review of a strict abortion ban passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year.
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