From a Florida Republican - "Things are worse than you may think"

Things are worse than you may think
Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 12:00 am (Updated: June 12, 12:02 am)
By Nancy Argenziano

Make no mistake: This is not about liberals vs. conservatives — or Republicans vs. Democrats; it’s about what is right and what is wrong. The legislation and policies of the governor and legislative leadership are wrong.

It’s about shouting a warning to Floridians that their elected leaders are selling them down the river, saying one thing, but doing another.

In my 16 years in the Florida House, state Senate and Public Service Commission, I have tried to inform people about what was going on in their government and provided the inside scoop that political leaders did not want you to know about. I have been warning for years, and providing examples of our representative government/democracy being sold to the highest contributors, the slush funds, the corruption — that it really is about money.

Much, MUCH more: http://www.chronicleonline.com/content/things-are-worse-you-may-think

Argenziano, who has served in the Legislature since 1996, has been a fiery iconoclast in the Legislature.

Most famously, she had a bag of fertilizer delivered to a lobbyist on the other side of a battle over nursing home regulations in 2001.

She reflected her rural district's conservatism on issues such as gun owners' rights, but bucked Gov. Jeb Bush repeatedly on issues including education and the former governor's efforts to intervene in the death of Terri Schiavo.

In a Legislature filled with millionaires, Argenziano was one of the only lawmakers who made her legislative job her only vocation, traveling hundreds of miles regularly in a sprawling district that stretches from Marion and Citrus counties in the south to just outside of Tallahassee and Jacksonville in the north.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070424/NEWS/704240399/1004

PSC's Nancy Argenziano resigns, endorses Alex Sink, bashes Rick Scott

By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
In Print: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

TALLAHASSEE — Public Service Commission Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano resigned from the board Tuesday and endorsed Democrat Alex Sink, saying she had to speak out to prevent the "noxious mix" of a Republican-led Legislature with GOP candidate Rick Scott as governor.

Argenziano, a Republican and former state senator from Crystal River, launched into a tirade against the lawmakers whom she accused of currying favor with the "$43 billion regulated industry."

"I'm terrified if Rick Scott becomes governor of this state because there is no balance," said Argenziano, an outspoken critic of the Legislature's influence on the state's utility board.

More: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/pscs-nancy-argenziano-resigns-endorses-alex-sink-bashes-rick-scott/1127774