DeSantis ends 50 years of ethics oversight by hobbling state and local investigators
By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org
The late Gov. Reubin Askew, who helped fashion the Sunshine Law and ethics rules for state government, recalled in an oral history that when Florida politicians saw this major reform brewing in the mid-1960s, “it just scared them to death.”
Now their successors have little to fear. Effective ethics oversight is almost gone and unlikely to revive in the near future, watchdog groups say.
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