Our Mayor, the Lobbyist

The Politics of Profit

A A A Comments (1) By Bob Norman Thursday, Sep 16 2004

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Lieberman, in full mayoral mode, leads the county during Hurricane Frances.

Commissioner Ben Graber wants to tighten up on the ethical morass in Florida he calls the "gray zone."

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Graber avers that the state legislature is to blame for allowing those who operate in the gray zone to flourish. "Legislators need to tighten the gray zone, but there are a lot of politicians who operate in it," he says. "I want to change it, but the legislature refuses to do that. Why? Because they like it."

And the flourishing gray zone, says Graber, is undermining trust of all levels of government -- a fact that Ilene Michelson's legal arguments can never change.

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ex politico 09/05/2010 3:32:00 PM

The legislators operate in the same gray area that the local officials use, to the advantage of their 'employers'. They will never change the law. There are too many of them. I don't know of many people that are truly public servants. I guess they can't afford to. Ritter, Klenet, Liberman, Geller,Bogdanoff, Thrasher, LeMieu, all of them and many, many more have profited from the influence of their position while in office. They should be required to pick a job, lobbyist or elected official. And Lieberman and company should pick a name, married or maiden.