Agency failed to save crucial documents WASHINGTON – It wasn’t just a hard-drive crash that led the Internal Revenue Service to lose Lois Lerner’s e-mails from the time she headed the group that delayed tax exemption applications from conservative groups. It was seven hard drive crashes, the lack of a centralized archive, a practice of […]
Nelson throwing weight behind state ethics law changes – News-press.com
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is throwing his weight behind an effort to undo a provision in a 2013 state ethics law allowing statewide elected officials to place personal financial assets in a blind trust. Republican Gov. Rick Scott is the only person who’s taken advantage of the rule so far. A former Democratic state legislator […]
Voting-rights groups blast Legislature for secrecy, favoritism in drawing congressional districts – The Florida Times-Union
Closing arguments in landmark trial TALLAHASSEE | A state judge has the power to decide that Florida’s congressional districts were illegally drawn to favor Republicans — and he should do just that, a coalition of voting-rights organizations argues in written closing arguments. In arguing that the districts violate a voter-approved Constitutional amendment specifically prohibiting such […]