Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi may have finally beat Florida Governor Rick Scott at something: Insolence.
This past Tuesday, Florida was scheduled to execute Marshall Gore, a man convicted of raping and stabbing Robyn Novick to death in 1988.
But Bondi had other plans, and refused to allow an execution to get in the way of a campaign check.
Bondi held a “hometown campaign kickoff,” or campaign fundraiser, at her home in Tampa on the night of Gore’s scheduled execution. But since she can’t be in two places at one time, she decided to reschedule a Gore’s death instead of dinner with the mayor of Tampa.
Since news broke that Bondi asked for Gore’s execution to be rescheduled a third time, twice for legal reasons prior to Bondi’s request, she has since apologized.
“The planned execution of Marshall Lee Gore had already been stayed twice by the courts, and we absolutely should not have requested that the date of the execution be moved.”
