People of FL District 8 You Can Do Better Than A Lobbyist

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The company, Spider Data Services, asked for its final payment of  $500,000 in 2013. But the Senate refused to pay, and instead questioned  the no-bid contract to build the website that had been awarded by former  Senate President Mike Haridopolos.

Once again, Haridopolos is the center of attention for all the wrong  reasons. He’s having a seat in Congress gifted to him by its retiring  occupant. But democracy may intervene and mess up this cozy backroom deal.

Senate President Mike Haridopolos has used his procedural powers to kill  a commonsense effort to impose a modicum of ethical standards on state  legislators who can't recognize a conflict of interest when they see  one.

Articles detailing Mike Haridopolos's deep roots in governmental corruption are plentiful and biblical in proportion. One of great concern was written in May 2024 by The Capitolist which was titled 'Haridoloplos Looks to Leverage State-Level Successes During His Congresssional Run'. For everyone's sake I hope not. 

• He provided legistlative favors for foreign businesses 
• Changed the name of taxes to 'fees' and told taxpayers taxes were cut
• Lied regarding a payout to the head of the Republican Party of Florida
• Awarded a $5M no bid contract to build a financial transparency site for FL that was never built
• Charged with ethics violations 
• Used taxpayer dollars to award no-bid contracts to developers who faced criminal charges
• Paid $152k, for a double spaced book which never gained traction
• Blocked legislation that would have curtailed conflicts of interest between lobbyists and legislators
• Forced Seminole Tribe to pay state of FL Billions of Dollars for exclusive rights to card games while giving horse racing and betting facilities a tax break
• Allowed foreign billionaire to pump millions of gallons per day from the Floridian Aquifer
• The list goes on