Maybe we should be calling it “StaffGate”: The purported scenario that the scandal surrounding the ouster of FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey was really the product of a staffing cabal.
If that’s the case–and why would anyone not believe Attorney General Pam Bondi–then this is the worst example of a clueless CEO since HCA minions engaged in all that Medicare fraud on Rick Scott’s private-sector watch.
Once Bondi and fellow Florida Cabinet members–none of whom are without further political ambition–were publicly embarrassed by being outted as window dressing, they began asking questions. And now they know how the media feels–when it gets auto-pilot, non-sequitur answers to probing queries.
Here’s hoping that they show some real fortitude and demand an independent investigation to see if Scott and his “Louisiana mafia” violated state law or the Florida Constitution. In fact, it seems all too fitting that the Cabinet is meeting this week at the Florida State Fair. How appropriate that this Cabinet clown car should be doing business near the midway amid racing pigs, tan exotic petting zoo and the dunk tank.