In a move that the Florida Bulldog calls “highly unusual,” Republican state Representative Randy Fine will get a second shot at a review from the state’s Commission on Ethics which previously found probable cause that the Trump ball-sucking lawmaker had abused and misused his elected office after a judge vacated the decision. No reason was given for the ruling by Judge James Peterson III.
Fine’s greatest hits include tweeting “I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our president – try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place” in 2022, being found hiding under his desk when servers showed up with a subpoena, and threatening to defund a local Special Olympics over “perceived slights.” Naturally the Orange Jesus endorsed Fine’s bid for a state Senate seat in February, declaring him a “MAGA warrior.”
The Ethics Commission’s probably going to land a little differently than last year’s 7-1 decision to find that Fine “abused his position to obtain a disproportionate benefit and that he misused his position by threatening to take away state funding over a personal feud with a Brevard County School Board member, and that he [interfered] in a council member’s response to a public records request for communications related to the dispute.” Six of the seven commissioners who made that determination are gone and the new chair is Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich, a Fine ally. Descovich has already declared she will not be recusing from any new case involving Fine.