Candidate McCollum Calls for Transparency, Career Politician McCollum Refuses To Let Sunshine In

From FDP:

Republican gubernatorial Candidate Bill McCollum likes to talk about his support for openness and transparency, but Career Politician Bill McCollum covers his cronies in times of scandal, as proven this week.

"Bill McCollum continues to duck and dodge taking action in his role as Attorney General in favor of his political allies, again. Whether its partisan misdeeds or questionable credit cards to lawmakers, Bill McCollum's last priority is the taxpayer and his first priority is his political cronies. Why is Bill McCollum protecting the status quo and the political elite instead of working to bring some transparency to the way business is run in Tallahassee? Why is Bill McCollum afraid of a little sunshine in these dark corners?" Eric Jotkoff, Florida Democratic Party spokesman asked.

When two candidates to replace McCollum as Florida Attorney General called on him this week to open an investigation into whether or not spending scandals at the Republican Party of Florida that included doling out credit cards to legislators constituted a breach of a 2005 ban on gifts to lawmakers, McCollum refused. In fact, the former Congressman refused to join a litany of other Republican statewide candidates in calling for the GOP to open its books to public scrutiny.

McCollum's politics-as-usual was editorialized against in the Sun-News, Friday, this way:

McCollum drew the line at transparency in government at the party door. He has publicly stated that the finances that are in debate, the party's finances, are not for the review of the common man. It's none of our business because it's party business, so to speak. As if the common man is only to pull the lever for a party no longer representing the people who vote for them. The common man is to ignore the doings behind that curtain, and the great and powerful Oz will tell you what to believe. The party has become more important than the voter. What is McCollum afraid of? Is he afraid that the public will be upset with the extravagant spending in a time when 10 percent of Floridians are looking for a job?

Read the full editorial, here http://www.newssun.com/opinion/edt-0212-mccollum

Will Bill McCollum please let a little sunshine in? What's he afraid of?