Frustrated that state officials have scrubbed crucial, and often embarrassing, details from a state report on children who have died from abuse, the head of the key Senate oversight committee said Thursday that it may be time to take the job away from the administration. “It seems they are less transparent that they have been […]
Florida AG joins scrutiny of governor’s actions in FDLE firing – Miami Herald
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said there are “serious questions” over how the state’s law-enforcement chief was ousted from his job by employees of Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi indicated she didn’t know all the facts of what happened to former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey, who has alleged that Scott’s employees meddled […]
Governor holds secret meeting with gambling execs – Naked Politics
The top executives of seven of South Florida gambling venues traveled to Tallahassee Wednesday to have a pre-arranged, closed-door meeting with Gov. Rick Scott who, in keeping with his un-even policies on transparency, kept it off his public agenda. The officials — from the Isle of Capri, Dania, Mardi Gras, Calder, Magic City, Miami Jai Alai and […]