From Florida Bulldog
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Florida Bar conjures up dubious ethics complaint against DeSantis critic Daniel Uhlfelder
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org The Florida Bar is scrapping standard operating procedure in its long-running ethics case against a lawyer who defied and embarrassed Gov. Ron DeSantis with a national audience during the run-up to his presidential bid.
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NRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of thousands in payments flowing to her
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer.
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Former FDLE Miami chief Troy Walker retired after probe found he sent thousands of sexually suggestive texts
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org For nearly a decade, Troy Walker lorded over the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Miami office with the iron fist of a paranoid tyrant. But it was Walker’s penchant for sending sexually explicit text messages on his work-issued phone that led to his departure.
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Bob Graham, 9/11, the FBI and me
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org I didn’t get to know Bob Graham until he was late in life. I’d met him briefly a couple of times in the mid-1980s when he was in his second term as Florida’s governor and I was a cityside reporter for The Miami News, but you can’t really know someone under such circumstances