If lawmakers-turned-lobbyists break rules, Legislature should punish | Steve Bousquet, South Florida Sun Sentinel

Interesting situation. We all voted for Amendment 12 in 2016, which is now mandatory legal authority. Amendment 12 and F.S. 112.313 will eventually catch up with St. Augustine's Mayor Ad Interim, Tracy Upchurch, duked into the job on March 4, 2019 in the Triple Crown of Lawbreaking, with no disclosure of candidates before perfunctory public comment (F.S. 119, 286 and Article I, Section 24 of our Florida Constitution). Ironically, Mayor UPCHURCH can't lobby the City for six years after his term ends, because Assistant City Attorney John Cary oddly opined that it was an "election" and not an appointment," under Florida Ethics Commission percent arising out of St. Augustine former Vice Mayor DONALD W. CRICHLOW's conflict of interest as a lobbyist on DOW PUD.

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If lawmakers-turned-lobbyists break rules, Legislature should punish | Steve Bousquet

By STEVE BOUSQUET

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |

FEB 07, 2020 | 2:20 PM 

| TALLAHASSEE

Frank Artiles became a lobbyist after he quit the Florida Legislature. But should he be lobbying the House? (Steve Cannon/AP)

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