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And you thought you had legal problems
The state of Florida has spent about a quarter Billion dollars on outside legal representation. I hope the taxpayers are getting their money's worth. Maybe they should just be calling the 7's, or the 8's, or the 2's. At least those TV advertised lawyers say you don't have to pay until they win.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Rick Scott and other top Florida Republicans frequently complain about government spending, but they have quietly spent more than $237 million on private lawyers to advance and defend their agendas, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Florida taxpayers also have been forced to reimburse nearly $16 million for their opponents' private attorney fees. That means an overall $253 million has been spent on legal fights in the last six years, including a water war with Georgia and losing battles to test welfare recipients for drugs, trim the state's voter registration lists and ban companies that do business with Cuba from bidding on government contracts.
"A quarter of a billion dollars is a gosh lot of money," said Dominic Calabro, president of Florida TaxWatch, a business-backed group that scrutinizes state spending.
Much of the state's legal spending doesn't show up in the normal process of assembling the state's $82 billion budget.
Attorney General Pam Bondi oversees a legal budget of nearly $309 million a year that helps pay for 450 state lawyers, but all that in-house legal firepower hasn't stopped state leaders from hiring private attorneys. And no one in state government is closely tracking what their hourly rates add up to.
"We do not have that information and are unaware of a way to capture expenditures for the purchase of outside legal services that would not entail an exhaustive search of documents," said Whitney Ray, a spokesman for Bondi.
Man, somebody has to question the competency of these public officials for just making statements like this.
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Re: And you thought you had legal problems
"We do not have that information and are unaware of a way to capture expenditures for the purchase of outside legal services that would not entail an exhaustive search of documents," said Whitney Ray, a spokesman for Bondi.
They better come up with a way !
What a bunch of BOZOS.
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