Days after Governor Rick Scott called on attorney lawmakers to cease employment with a\u00a0 firm that lobbies the legislature, Senate President Joe Negron left his longtime firm. He says it was not because of the Governor;\u2019s letter.\u00a0 The Gunster Firm has US Sugar as one of its major clients. Negron is pushing a forced purchase of US Sugar land to use for Everglades restoration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a bill was filed that could have a potential effect,\u00a0 s significant effect on a client of the firm that I\u2019m employed with, I thought in the abundance of caution, because this is such an important issued to me, the community and the state, I though in the abundance of caution, to avoid any problem, that it would be best for me to step away from my firm\u201d said Negron at the AP meeting.<\/p>\n

Florida has a citizen legislature and lawmakers are not allowed to vote on issues that have a direct benefit to their pocketbook. The House Speaker also works for a law firm, but says no bills are filed that would benefit his firms clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Days after Governor Rick Scott called on attorney lawmakers to cease employment with a\u00a0 firm that lobbies the legislature, Senate President Joe Negron left his longtime firm. He says it was not because of the Governor;\u2019s letter.\u00a0 The Gunster Firm has US Sugar as one of its major clients. Negron is pushing a forced purchase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34570,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions\/34570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}