Reading the latest media accounts of lobbyist excesses, it motivated me to list some of the outstanding lobbyists identified in my book, The Golden Years...The Florida Legislature, '70s and '80s. On my blog, www.goldenyearspoliticalcollection.com, I have a Quorum Call listing the prominent legislators, lobbyists and press included in the book, and have [...]
Chapter 10 of my book, The Golden Years...The Florida Legislature, '70s and '80s, includes reflections on campaigns and public service. Among them is number 16, on page 158, which reads in part: "...the certain three influences on political decisions are either, or all of sex, religion and money." I was not [...]
In my book, The Golden Years...The Florida Legislature, '70s and '80s, I remind readers that anything said by an office holder is public record. However, my experience is that voters will forgive almost anything said in public, or even done, including declaring bankruptcy, enduring adultery, and an occassional ill advised vote. But, public [...]
