Someday, someone is going to write a book about this man's ascent to power in the
Central Florida circle of power. Probably won't be any time soon because others are following his example. Hell, they might be disciples. Just for a headstart, he has been described by others as a GOP rainmaker and a political attorney.
We'll just start in the nineties when he was a city attorney for several cities in the area -- though not necessarily serving at the same time. Among the personal accomplishments that he heralded, was his membership in the Chamber of Commerce and the fact that he resolved issues without ever having to go to trial. (Separate facts, but I always viewed them as corollary.) That was, of course, before our city was hit with a huge lawsuit from a developer, which revealed the inner workings of a backwater community.
I wonder if the powers that be, finally had enough.
Article below:
Orlando airport chairman Frank Kruppenbacher's global travels span 100 days and $100,000
As the appointed, unpaid chairman of Orlando International Airport, Frank Kruppenbacher has traveled globally for more than 100 days in the past six years and cost the public more than $100,000, shows an examination by the Orlando Sentinel of hundreds of pages of his expense reports.
Kruppenbacher went to Shanghai twice, Beijing three times, Tokyo four years in a row and to Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Frankfurt, Germany; Istanbul; Panama City; Santiago, Chile; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Turin, Italy, among other cities. He is currently making his fifth visit to Tokyo.
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There is little precedent for the frequency and extent of Kruppenbacher’s travels by appointed or elected officials at other airports in Florida, at several across the South of similar caliber or at airports cited by Orlando’s aviation authority as having comparable practices.
Officials at a dozen major airports said no non-staff officials travel on behalf of their airports as much as Kruppenbacher.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-orlando-airport-globetrotting-chairman-20181018-story.html
