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NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer to face ethics commission hearing
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s top gun lobbyist Marion Hammer faces a probable cause hearing next week before the Florida Commission on Ethics regarding her failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from the National Rifle Association. -
Opa-locka Police need professional overhaul, report finds
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Patrolling the streets of Opa-locka has never been meaner. The small, predominantly African-American city’s police department is plagued with widespread low morale, poor managerial leadership, officers who abuse sick leave, inadequate policies and procedures, a deteriorating evidence room and broken-down squad cars discarded by other law enforcement agencies, a new report found. -
Who owns Florida’s beaches? The answer might be clearer soon
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Legislature is expected to act soon on whether to overturn a controversial 2018 law that prohibits the public from setting foot on the dry sand of beaches that abut private property in Walton County in the Panhandle. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer got illegal loans from nonprofit she runs, Unified Sportsmen of Florida
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer has obtained several apparently illegal loans over the years from Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the Tallahassee nonprofit she founded and runs, Florida Bulldog has found. -
Florida’s ‘cash register justice’ leaves many felons still ineligible to vote despite passage of Amendment 4
By Claire Goforth
Ten years ago, Rosemary McCoy never would have imagined that today she’d be in a Jacksonville library, tears streaming down her face, as she tells a stranger how it feels to be disenfranchised. -
Amid misconduct inquiry, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer says she’s not a lobbyist
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When is a registered lobbyist not a lobbyist? If powerful NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer gets her way, it’s when she says so.
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