Gov. Scott removes Scott Batterson from expressway board

[Baitball Blogger]

Two days after being convicted of two bribery-related charges by an Orange County jury, Scott Batterson was officially removed Friday from the board of Orlando's expressway authority by Gov. Rick Scott.

Batterson, 38, was appointed to the five-member board of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority by Scott in 2011, then suspended in April when he was indicted by an Orange County grand jury.

Scott issued the executive order that took Batterson off the board, which since has been revamped into a nine-person panel that oversees the Central Florida Expressway Authority. It replaced the Orlando agency last month.

Batterson faces up to 30 years in prison after a four-woman, two-man jury decided Wednesday that he was guilty of offering a $5 million a year engineering contract to a consultant in exchange for hiring some of his friends.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-batterson-removed-xway-20140829,0,5688020.story

[Fred Sanders]

1. Republicans forget to pass a law making corruption in this area legal? Their bad.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. This is a rare case where it was an easy call because the Expressway Authority board

seems to be composed of one party. That's the only thing that stood out from other incidents.

Credit goes to the Orange County State Attorney and the jury. God bless them.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Prosecutors are not given enough credit for their hard jobs and low pay. True guardians of

constitutional democracy should be better compensated in so many ways.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Wow. You just gave me an image better than beach horizons and ice cream shoppes.

Can you imagine a department of Constitutional prosecutors who just went about looking for Constitutional violations in government actions?

I can dream.

[MichaelSoE]

5. my wife says that i'm all thumbs ... so i give this 10 thumbs up