The Florida state senate, surprisingly including the Republicans, removed the co-founder of the sexual adventurers’ club Moms for Libertines Liberty, a nominee of returning Florida Republican Governor and guest garden gnome Ron DeSantis from a list of nominees for the state ethics commission after it received a complaint from a citizen that she’s a lobbyist and barred from such a position, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Tina Descovich was removed from a list of DeSantis nominees after the slate had been approved on Party lines by the senate’s Ethics and Elections Committee, but she was later removed from the roster after a political consultant noted to the commission that her actions for Moms for Liberty clearly amounted to lobbying, an activity disqualifying for nominees to the Commission on Ethics.
Her removal comes just a few months after the Commission’s former chairman, Glen Gilzean, was forced to resign from the panel because he had the $400,000-per-year position given to him by DeSantis to oversee the land Disney previously operated; state rules bar someone on state government salary from sitting on the Ethics Commission. Gilzean was also been named by DeSantis to oversee Orange County elections, a job that comes with a $200,000 per year salary; it’s unclear if the Ethics Commission would condone one person simultaneously holding these two positions.