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Matt J

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May 9, 2007
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Teddy Stewart is a pompous ass, just watch some old planning commission meetings. This is not someone who will represent the people.
 

einnadica

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Nov 25, 2017
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Teddy Stewart is

Maybe the County Administrator and the candidate should meet to discuss how to hide their relationship...
The 2018 Florida Statutes
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Title X

PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS Chapter 112
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES: GENERAL PROVISIONS View Entire Chapter
112.3135 Restriction on employment of relatives.—
 

Lake View Too

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Nov 16, 2008
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Maybe the County Administrator and the candidate should meet to discuss how to hide their relationship...
The 2018 Florida Statutes
600x3_gradient.gif

Title X

PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS Chapter 112
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES: GENERAL PROVISIONS View Entire Chapter
112.3135 Restriction on employment of relatives.—
I hope this thread doesn't dissolve into cryptic innuendoes about this candidate and that. Please just state facts that you know so we can get more informed. Please.
 

Lake View Too

SoWal Insider
Nov 16, 2008
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gimme a break on the cuteness LV2, you know this as well as I
You are giving me (and a lot of other people) too much credit. A whole lot of us don't know the county "family trees". Really. Please explain some of this to us. Politely.
 

Bob Wells

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Jul 25, 2008
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My question is, if the County Administrator/ relative already has the position before a Candidate is elected whether this applies. I have read a Ethics Ruling a long time ago about a School Board member who had a relative employed as a teacher. If I remember correctly it was about a vote on pay. It also seems that there was no issue with it because the teacher was represented by a Union who negotiated wages and terms and condition of employment and the School Board member was voting on to accept or reject the proposed contract. I am sure that there is a way to seek a ruling on that question from the State Ethics Commission.
112.3135
(2)(a) A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, or advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a position in the agency in which the official is serving or over which the official exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official. An individual may not be appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced in or to a position in an agency if such appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement has been advocated by a public official, serving in or exercising jurisdiction or control over the agency, who is a relative of the individual or if such appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement is made by a collegial body of which a relative of the individual is a member. However, this subsection shall not apply to appointments to boards other than those with land-planning or zoning responsibilities in those municipalities with less than 35,000 population. This subsection does not apply to persons serving in a volunteer capacity who provide emergency medical, firefighting, or police services. Such persons may receive, without losing their volunteer status, reimbursements for the costs of any training they get relating to the provision of volunteer emergency medical, firefighting, or police services and payment for any incidental expenses relating to those services that they provide.
 

Bob Wells

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For those interested the link will take you to the Ethics Commission for the State. If you are so inclined 2 cases that I took a quick glance at may or may not alleviate your concern.
CEO 91-27
CEO 94-39

With that said, I venture to guess that although this may make folks uncomfortable the Candidate probably already has a ruling from the Ethics Commission.
 
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