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Speaker Quits College Post
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Published: January 6, 2009
TALLAHASSEE - Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom announced Monday that he will give up the $110,000 Northwest Florida State College job he took the day he was sworn in as speaker.
Critics have questioned whether the job as the college's chief fundraiser was a reward for putting $25.5 million for the school into the budget last year, when Sansom served as head of the House Budget and Policy Council. Sansom was making $25,000 more than his predecessor, and the Niceville college didn't advertise the job.
Sansom defended himself even as he stepped down from the college job.
"I accepted my position at the college with pure intentions and for good reasons. I have long had a passion for education, and I have spent decades working to expand the opportunities available to the people of northwest Florida," Sansom told House members as a special session to cut the budget began.
The Associated Press
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