Monday, November 14, 2011

Sink draws heat over use of state plane - Orlando Business Journal:

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In April, her officse announced that state travel logs chronicling the flights of state employeew on state planes would be postedd on line by the Floridaz Department ofManagement Services. On a state employee said he filef an ethics complaintagainst Florida’es Chief Financial officer alleginfg that she misused the state plane. Jose Blas Lorenzoi Jr., an attorney who worksz for the Departmentof Education, filed the complaint. He said he was by some of the information he has read in news articlesabout Sink’s use of the planee and did some research of his own.
He figurews that since announcing her plans to run for Sink has rackedup $11,000 in planre travel that's unrelated to her official duties. “I am just very concerned,” Lorenzo said. “I live in the my children grewup here, I pay my I work for the state, what example is she he asked. In his Lorenzo claims that on at least one Sink flew on the state planes on the first leg of a flighgt with a destination for a vacationm inthe Bahamas. He said that on other occasionds Sink has used the plane to drop off her Bill McBride, or pick up her son. Sink, a is running for Calls to her office for comment were notimmediately returned.
However, according to published reports, she has ordereds her office to conduct a review of herplaned use. Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is a Republicanj candidatefor governor, was also subject of the joingt stories by the and for travell to his home in Centraol Florida. “McCollum has spent severap personal days campaigning and not used astate plane, that’s indicative of something,” Lorenzop said. A check of campaign contributions found that Lorenzo supportef Charlie Crist in his runfor governor, donating $200 in 2006 and $150 in 2005.

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