Crist Just as Surprised as Everyone Else
February 7th, 2008 by Mike Vasilinda�Shocked like everyone else�� is how governor Charlie Crist described his reaction to news DCF spokesman Al Zimmerman was arrested on child pornography charges. The arrest happened over the weekend, but today was the first chance for reporters to directly ask the governor how he came to give Zimmerman a reference for the DCF job.
How did you name end up on his resume as the first reference?
�Probably because he asked me and I said yes. He was a journalist in Tampa Bay and I knew him,� Crist answered.
How well?
�Not that well,� Crist replied.
DCF failed to run a full background check on Zimmerman when he was hired, in part because he had no direct supervision over children. Had the check been run, it would have found a DUI and bad check charges, but no crimes against children. The agency is now in the process of manually checking more than 13 thousand hires.
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