More bad news for Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom today.
State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit Willie Meggs announced today that he would present complaints over Speaker Sansom’s questionable dealings to a Leon County grand jury on January 26.
The St. Petersburg Times reports:
Once the Grand Jury is empaneled on Jan. 26, Meggs will give the complaints to jurors, leave the room and let them decide whether it should be investigated…
Even after resigning from his cushy, quid pro quo college job, Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom is still under fire for his perceived improprieties and it’s not — just from the other side of the aisle.
Tallahassee Republican Ray Bellamy has spent $6,000 of his own money to take out several ads in the Tallahassee Democrat calling on Governor Charlie Crist to investigate “the ethical and possibly criminal violations that may have occured.”
Alex Leary of the St. Petersburg Times reports that Northwest Florida State College president Bob Richburg sent several “shopping lists” of desired funding to State Rep. Ray Sansom (R-Destin), who, as we all know, is now both the Speaker of the Florida House, and an employee of the college, at the same time.
The emails are remarkable. [...]
As of this morning, there are 100,000 persons incarcerated in the Florida state prison system.
Expect that number to continue to rise steadily.
In last year’s state budget, the Florida Legislature cut education funding by $332 million while managing to find $309 million for prison construction. That’s the idea. As our young people graduate from an underfunded, [...]
Northwest Florida State College, the institution for which Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom nabbed $35 million in the last two years, and which rewarded him for his efforts with a six-figure administration job, is back at the table asking for seconds.
The college wants $13.2 million this time around. The Florida Department of Education is recommending [...]
I haven’t said much about Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his sweetheart $110K/year job at Northwest Florida State College, an institution for which he’s helped secure more than $25 million in funding. Other area bloggers, Rick Outzen in particular, have taken the lead.
But it’s not just Rick talking anymore. The big state papers are [...]
Jeff Atwater, the incoming president of the State Senate, has rounded out his staff. They’re expensive.
I railed against Atwater’s selection of wealthy friend Budd Kniep as his chief of staff in a viewpoint published in the Independent News earlier this year. Kniep, who has no prior experience working in this or any other legislature, will [...]
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