Plant City State Representative Rich Glorioso is running for Supervisor of Elections in Hillsborough County next month against Democrat Craig Latimer, who currently works as chief of staff to the current SOE head, Dr. Earl Lennard.
A number of staff members in that office have given financial support to Latimer, and Glorioso doesn’t like that one bit.
So on Friday he submitted a letter to Lennard listing those employees and requesting that they be removed from the elections office on Falkenberg Road until after the election.
“It is my contention that it would be impossible for the employees, including those contributing and openly campaigning, to carry out their duties without the appearance of impropriety, given their open support of Mr. Latimer,” Glorioso writes. “It is because of these activities that I request that you remove these employees from the Robert L. Gilder Elections Service Center on Falkenburg Road immediately and until the election is certified.”
Glorioso also is requesting that the employees he specifically mentions be banned from having any contact with ballots that include the race for Supervisor of Elections. “Additionally, I ask that their access to election data be suspended for the same time period,” he writes.
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.
