George Niemann is a Daily Loaf contributor and a UCAN, RLAND, FSP activist. The views expressed are his own and not necessarily the same as the organizations to which he belongs.
This could turn out to be the ultimate political paradox of 2012. On Thursday, January 12, 2012, the West Central Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA) bestowed their Legislator of the Year Award on state Senator Jim Norman. If they bothered to check his rap sheet they would have seen that Norman must face ethics charges on February 3, 2012 in Tallahassee for accepting $500,000 from a Tampa businessman and mysteriously forgetting to report it, as required by law.
The decision to give him this award boggles the mind, considering the charges he’s facing. Maybe this law enforcement group has a beat on a street in Superman’s Bizarro World.
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2012.