Senate budget chief asks Gov. Rick Scott to justify his 'legal authority' to sell state planes

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott is on a political crash course with the Florida Senate's powerful budget chief, J.D. Alexander, who wrote a letter Tuesday asking the governor to cite the "legal authority" for the way he sold two state planes.

Sen. J.D. Alexander said he believed the Feb. 11 transaction was unlawful because the governor failed to get the Legislature to sign off on the $3.67 million deal and kept some of the money from reaching the state treasury — a highly unusual transaction.

Alexander, who wrote a letter last week saying the deal wasn't legal, wrote his followup Tuesday so that Scott would tell him specifically who advised the governor.

"In your response, please state specifically why this transaction did not violate Article VII, Section 1(c) of the Florida Constitution and Sections … Florida Statutes," wrote Alexander, who says he supports the sale of the planes, but opposes the way the governor handled the deal.

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Notice this part: "and kept some of the money from reaching the state treasury"

WHAT THE EVERLUVIN' FUCK??

Looks like you stepped on somebody's toes. J.D. Alexander may be your run-of-the-mill reactionary oppressive, but he's got his own turf, and the governor may have trod upon it. And how did the proceeds of a sale of state property not make it into the treasury? "Highly unusual" is, I suppose, one way to characterize that. "Outright theft" is another.

of course that wouldn't be enough to bring down a republican.