If that information becomes public, perhaps even members of the aviation authority might finally open their eyes. The terms of Stella Thayer and current Chairman W. Crosby Few expire later this year. Gov. Jeb Bush is expected to replace them with two Republicans. Bush's first appointee to the authority, West Shore development pioneer Alfred S. Austin, already has voiced skepticism about the Corbett affair at airport meetings.
Turning back the page to review the shenanigans of Corbett and his largely Democratic circle of facilitators might be too hard for the aviation authority's soon-to-be GOP majority to resist.
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