I know, I'm sure this isn't that interesting to many of my readers, but this story is just too good. I said way back when than Scott Maddox shouldn't enter the governor's race, and every day brings fresh evidence that I was right.
To recap: First, Maddox is criticized for failing to register as a lobbyist when working in that capacity for a developer in Leon County while still serving as state party chairman. Next it turns out that in his last week as party chairman, he gave a $100,000 contract to a friend of his for party-planning services (that must've been one hell of a party) without taking bids for the contract. Then, the federal government puts a lien on the party Maddox just got finished running, for failure to pay federal taxes. Then, the party's own internal audit finds that over $900,000 is unaccounted for. Later it turns out that the Leon County Democratic Party, which Maddox also chaired, failed to pay some $60,000 in taxes while he was leading it. And today comes word that Maddox failed to pay over $2500 in property taxes on a house he owned in Leon County.
He has blamed almost all of these problems on a low-level functionary and friend of his, one Debbie Griffin-Bruton. Maddox bought the house in question now from Ms. Griffin-Bruton. And there's more--while he was chairman of the county party, the party was fined by the county elections supervisor for failing to adequately or accurately report campaign finance matters.
Maddox has said he has no intention of dropping out. He blames all of the problems on Griffin-Bruton, who says she concealed the errors out of embarassment. How convenient for him that an old family friend should accept all the blame for all the horrible things that happened on his watch. Hmm.
I said Maddox was an idiot before. I'm saying it again now. Maddox is the reason why the next governor of Florida will be a Republican. He should ponder that.
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