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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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The Blog for Saturday, October 15, 2005

"Jeb!" Appointees Escape Ethics Charges ...

    notwithstanding staff recommendations to the contrary; "Jeb!"'s appointees get a pass:
    Three years after Florida regulators attended a Miami Beach conference partially underwritten by utility companies they regulate, the state Commission on Ethics voted Friday to dismiss charges that the officials broke state law.

    In a 7-1 vote that drew sharp rebuke from one of its newest members and was contrary to staff recommendations, the ethics commission decided it was pointless to pursue prosecution of the four current and former members of the Florida Public Service Commission. ...

    The ethics commission member who voted against dismissing the allegations was outraged.

    "They operated like we were in a Third World republic and they had their hands out for gifts," said Mike Carr, a Naples lawyer who joined the commission just last month. "They knew it was wrong when they did it."

    The ruling is likely to do little to restore faith in the PSC, which has come under fire repeatedly in recent years on allegations that commissioners are too close to the utilities they regulate, such as Progress Energy, TECO, BellSouth and AT&T.
    "Charges dropped in PSC inquiry". See also "Law clears 4 on panel of ethics complaints" ("Applying a new law retroactively, a state ethics panel Friday dismissed complaints against four state officials accused of accepting gifts from the industries they regulate.")

    Tell me again, why was Buddy Dyer indicted?

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