Bob Gabordi is executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and Tallahassee.com. He can be reached through this blog, at bgabordi@tallahassee.com or (850) 599-2177 |
Politics Live shows at 10 a.m. today on Tallahassee.com. Only it’s not live because of a scheduling conflict I have this morning.
It was recorded Monday when 1st District Court of Appeal Chief Judge Paul Hawkes visited the Tallahassee Democrat for more than an hour, sitting down with Florida Capital News editor Paul Flemming and I for the show and then with the editorial board.
What it lacks in "live" we hope to make up for in interesting and lively.
Last week, CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic Party nominee for governor, released an audit that concluded the $49 million 1st DCA building nearing completion near SouthWood in southeast Tallahassee was out of control and skirted rules without breaking the law.
Speaking of Hawkes, Sink said the project is “an outrageous example of an overactive judge who was lobbying the Legislature and then became, in effect, the personal contract manager to build something outrageous like this building full of 20 miles of mahogany, private facilities for judges, a 120,000-square-foot building to house 120 people.”
Republican Mike Haridopolos, the incoming Senate president, cited Sink’s audit in calling for the resignation of Department of Management Services Secretary Linda South.
Hawkes also has been the subject of a campaign to get voters to vote no on his retention to the bench.
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