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Republican Supports Ousting Sansom

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 4, 2009

Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom is a disgrace. At a time when the Legislature is working to burden local and county government with further unfunded mandates, evidence surfaces that the speaker cooked up a $122.5-million spending spree for his hometown community college.

Then we hear that on the very day Sansom takes the speaker's gavel, he shoehorned into a six-figure-a-year job at the same college that benefits from his largesse.
Florida voters statewide are seeing locally provided services like libraries, streets and sewers, public safety and education being gutted thanks to the self-serving crowd in the Legislature.

Ray Sansom's antics are an outrage and he should step down. Let's see how long his new job with the college lasts when the big checkbook in Tallahassee slams shut.

I am a lifelong Republican. It gives me no pleasure to say that if Republican members of the Legislature aren't outraged, then they are as politically tone deaf as the speaker.

If Sansom won't go immediately, the Republican members of the house should replace him. If they don't, Republican voters like me will cross the aisle and join our Democrat friends to replace them.

TIM SHEPHERD

Palm Harbor

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