Gone in 41 seconds: Tough gift restrictions on Broward's elected officials



A happy Broward Mayor Mark Bogen calling the vote on the ordinance he co-sponsored that ended the county's tough restrictions on the acceptance of gifts by elected county and municipal leaders.

By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org

Forty-one seconds.

That’s all it took for the Broward County Commission to gleefully enact an ordinance three weeks ago disposing of tough restrictions on the acceptance of gifts by elected officials in the county’s ethics code.

It got little notice outside the commission’s meeting room at County Hall. But since Dec. 19 – just in time for the gift-giving season – those elected officials need only comply with the more lenient gift law restrictions spelled out in state law.




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