When Lakeland State Senator Paula Dockery announced her candidacy for the GOP nomination for Governor last fall, she said one reason she was running was to take back her party from some of the corruption that has gone on with executives and major fundraisers for the state party in recent years.
That sentiment is what ultimately led to the demise of party Chairman Jim Greer. Now Dockery is again calling for more accountability within party ranks after the Orlando Sentinel's report yesterday that Delmar Johnson, the 30 year-old executive director and chief fundraiser for the Republican Party of Florida, made over $408,000 last year. That was more than triple what the soon to be departing Greer made. The story reports that:
Nearly $200,000 of that came through a contract signed by Greer and Johnson naming Johnson as the party's chief fundraiser. That contract was apparently never divulged even to senior members of the party's executive committee.
This article appears in Feb 3-9, 2010.