Florida's Sec. of State (Hood) didn't pay her property taxes

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With all the accusations flying about Florida's voting problems, Secretary of State Glenda Hood has barely had time to catch her breath.

She apparently also hasn't had time to pay the property taxes on her Orlando home.

Records show that Hood, whose salary was paid with property taxes during her decade as Orlando's mayor, didn't pay the delinquent taxes on her Lancaster Park house until Friday -- a few hours after she was questioned about it by the Orlando Sentinel.

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When the bill still hadn't been paid by mid-May, a delinquent tax certificate was sold on the property along with all other properties that have back taxes. That amounts to a lien and allows the certificate holder to charge interest on the debt and ultimately put the property on the auction block if the bill isn't paid within two years.

Hood learned the ins and outs of property taxes, which pay for police, firefighters and other services, during 10 years on the City Council and another 10 years as mayor. She left halfway through her third term in the mayor's office, after accepting an appointment as secretary of state from Gov. Jeb Bush in December 2002.

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James Powell earned 5 percent interest off Hood's trouble. The Palm City man bought Hood's tax certificate at random in May, along with others, as an investment. But he doesn't know Hood and didn't realize the house belongs to the secretary of state.

"That is curious," Powell said Friday. "Why would the secretary of state, of all people, not pay their taxes?"

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-locglenda17071704jul17,1,2557147.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

[olddem43]

1. but taxes are bad things to Repugs!

[StClone]

2. Real estate taxes are so low in Florida

It was no big deal.

[Flagius]

3. AGAIN!?

I think this is the second time she has done this.

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4. If she didn't have the money...well, isn't she exactly the person you want

overseeing elections? Someone who needs a little money so that she can maintain a lifestyle to which he or she has become accostomed.

Those people NEVER get priorities mixed up.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. By the time the state goes to sell you tax certificate

You have been delinquent for quite awhile and you have been notified numerous times that you owe this tax. There is no excuse not to pay, especially if you are the friggin Sec. of State. I never thought anyone could be worse that Sandra Mortham. Then I thought no one could be worse than Katherine Harris. Go figure, by election day, Glenda Hood will probably outshine both of them.

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6. As a Floridian who pays about 4 grand a year in property tax

You're absolutely right... There's no way they didn't know about this...