Senator Dan Gelber (District 35) believes that wide-spread public corruption in Florida has a lot to do with “very, very lax campaign finance laws” which the Florida legislature has failed to address and he thinks that Governor Charlie Crist should call legislators back for a special session on the issue. Gelber, who is in the race for Florida Attorney General, made these observations recently in an exclusive interview with West Orlando News Online.
“A lot of that (public corruption) is not jut about statutes and prosecuting. It is about campaign finance issues. We have very, very lax campaign finance laws. We allow the State Legislature to operate really, in the shadows,” Gelber said. “I have introduced a package and some of those measures were addressed in the Senate, but the House again, decided they didn’t want to do anything to address their conduct or ethics.”
