Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday made three appointments to the nine-member Commission on Ethics, the agency that is asking the Legislature for more authority to investigate ethical wrongdoing by public officials.
These picks have been a long time in coming: their terms expired seven months ago, in June of 2009.
Crist reappointed Roy Rogers, 72, of Lighthouse Point and named two new members: retiree Ivan Ford, 73, of Vero Beach succeeds Linda Conahan, a lawyer from Boca Raton, and Crist replaced Larry Handfield of Miami with Susan Maurer, 53, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer. Maurer is a law partner of Tom Panza, a well- known lobbyist and Democratic fund-raiser for many years in Tallahassee.
A fourth lame-duck ethics commissioner, Albert Massey of Fort Lauderdale, remains on the panel. Massey and Michael Joblove of Cooper City bring to four the number of ethics commissioners who live in Broward, currently viewed by many as Florida's most ethically-challenged county.
-- Steve Bousquet
WOW,we really hit a new low with that "ethically challenged" statement! Give me a huge break....Why not state the obvious and most honest interpretation of Broward County's status and call he county the most corrupt county in Florida...that would be an honest statement.
Posted by: harry houdini | January 28, 2010 at 09:29 AM