News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

[LAKid53]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the district changes its stance and allows him to keep his administrator job as long as he resigns from the ethics committee.

That would be the only solution. However, for 3 months now the Chair of the Florida Ethics Commission has been violating the provisions of Section 112.321(1), F.S. So what's his fine going to be?

 

[LAKid53]

He was appointed but nobody is clean. He was already on the commission when he sought the district administrator job. Unless he kept it from the board then they knew and didn’t care either.

Oh, the timing of that job and rulings by the Commission, including one where it overruled its own Advocate's recommendation, is HIGHLY suspicious. And I'm sure the OCTOD was aware of them. The rulings are public. And these were well known.

And that's all I'm going to say about them.

 

[pdude81]

That would be the only solution. However, for 3 months now the Chair of the Florida Ethics Commission has been violating the provisions of Section 112.321(1), F.S. So what's his fine going to be?

 

[castlecake2.0]

He was appointed but nobody is clean. He was already on the commission when he sought the district administrator job. Unless he kept it from the board then they knew and didn’t care either.

Surprised Garcia didn’t find this HiGhLy UnUzOoAL

 

[MaryJaneP]

Orwellian both the use of "Ethics" and "Tourism"

 

[Chi84]

I haven’t been keeping up as much as I should, but I love how Disney - after being told to drop the lawsuit - doubled down by adding counterclaims to the state litigation asking for specific performance of the development contracts and damages for breach of those contracts.

 

[TtocsMc]

Surprised Garcia didn’t find this HiGhLy UnUzOoAL

To use Garcia’s own words this is “naughty“

 

[flynnibus]

Sounds like great fodder for public comment section at next meeting

 

[MisterPenguin]

Surprised Garcia didn’t find this HiGhLy UnUzOoAL

It was sprung on him at the last second!!!

 

[MisterPenguin]

Orwellian both the use of "Ethics" and "Tourism"

As well as "Central Florida."

 

[tissandtully]

Maybe because the Orlando Sentinel is kinda the local paper?

If its paywalled it’s not helpful to most, also original reporting should get some traffic too

 

[tissandtully]

Guess...

Interesting comment in Scott Maxwell's Orlando Sentinel's story on Gilzean...

"Gilzean’s contract with the Disney district says he can lose his $400,000-a-year government job if he violates the very ethics statute that the ethics commission lawyer said he hasn’t been following..."

I’m sure they’ll apply the contract as written…. lol sorry I couldn’t finish that without laughing.

 

[tissandtully]

Holy %#^* - what a moron. Just walk away…

Taking the GM position… he thought was an independent contractor? Lol

And this is the guy who is supposed to be leading staff.

Unreal

“Weaponized” by just presenting reality

 

[LAKid53]

If its paywalled it’s not helpful to most, also original reporting should get some traffic too

Maxwell's article gives credit to the Bulldog as the first to report the story.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Maxwell's article gives credit to the Bulldog as the first to report the story.

That doesn't help those that can't get past the paywall does it?

 

[EeyoreFan#24]

So if I read that correctly, his position is not that he isn’t breaking the laws, it’s that he’s mad they told everyone about it.

 

[LAKid53]

So if I read that correctly, his position is not that he isn’t breaking the laws, it’s that he’s mad they told everyone about it.

Any astute individual familiar with Florida statutes could have figured it out. But apparently he couldn't. I'm pretty sure his onboarding documents included an ethics handbook. We got one at university level.

 

[mightynine]

Most of the CFTOD clods wouldn’t know the definition of ethics if it walked up and bit ‘em where the good Lord split ‘em.

 

[Nevermore525]

Gilzean and the CFTOD:

 

[flynnibus]

So if I read that correctly, his position is not that he isn’t breaking the laws, it’s that he’s mad they told everyone about it.

His position was he didn't think it was breaking the law...
and he's mad he got told the same time other people were told.

But as any judge will tell you, ignorance is not a defense for breaking the law. Plus, he's sitting on the committee that is supposed to investigate and report this very kind of issue. Kinda screams "lacks qualifications" doesn't it?