Good ole boy favoritism rears its ugly head in Florida -- again.

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So the Sheriff is hired by an insurance company to serve on an advisory board from 2008 to 2009 (that's the years for his most current financial statements). Then the sheriff allowed the insurance company to hold sales meetings four times from 2008-2010 to procure business from his employees. And then the Florida Attorney General's Office ignores this information and presents this case to the Florida Ethics Commission with a recommendation to clear him because the Sheriff didn't buy any coverage for himself!

And that, boys and girls, is how you play the White men can jump the law in Florida.

Seminole Sheriff Don Eslinger cleared by state ethics panel.

Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger faced the state's Commission on Ethics in Tallahassee today and was cleared of wrongdoing for his involvement with an insurance company that pays him several thousand dollars a year as an advisor.

A Geneva man had accused Eslinger of official misconduct: of steering his employees to buy insurance from the company, Star & Shield Insurance Exchange.

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The Florida Attorney General's Office, which presented the case to the ethics commission today, concluded that because the Sheriff's Office bought no coverage from Star & Shield, Eslinger had broken no law.

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He was hired by Star & Shield in 2008 to serve on an advisory board. His most recently-filed financial disclosure statement – for 2009 – reports Star & Shield paid him $7,500 that year, $2,500 per meeting.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/os-sheriff-eslinger-ethics-hearing-20110401,0,1709646.story

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1. I am officially calling these convulted reasonings from Florida's law enforcment:

the 99 yard punts.

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2. Kicked for the morning crowd

If this had been posted on anytime Monday through Friday it would be on the greatest page.