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The Blog for Saturday, October 08, 2005

She's Baaack ....

    The former Playboy Bunny whom "Jeb!" denied having an affair with is back in the news:
    The flurry of complaints to the newspaper and regulatory agencies is an indication of how much a lighting rod Henderson remains, two years after leaving public office to become a legislative lobbyist with a fat list of state and national clients.

    Just three months after Gov. Jeb Bush first appointed her to head the regulatory agency in 1999, she flew to the Kentucky Derby on a corporate jet owned by a restaurant chain her office regulated, and she was later criticized for firing four lawyers and an investigator who were probing complaints of poor workmanship by a construction company run by the head of the Florida Home Builders Association.

    Shortly after that, she was sued by a terminated employee who charged she choked him and yelled at him so forcefully that she spit on him. That lawsuit was later settled for $7,500.

    Bush moved Henderson to head the smaller Department of Management Services the following year. While there, she received a "letter of advice" from the grievance committee of The Florida Bar for hiring as her general counsel an attorney who was not licensed to practice law in Florida. The disciplinary committee decided Henderson didn't violate legal rules "but came real close."

    Bush did not bring Henderson back after his second-term transition, when he fired all of his agency heads and asked some of them back. She had indicated she wanted a role in his second term as governor.

    Henderson was not happy the Democrat questioned her.
    "Former DBPR head facing inquiry". See also "Bureaucrat or lobbyist -- trouble follows her".

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