A Whole Family Sucking at the Public Tit

From the Orlando Sentinel School Zone blog:

State Sen. Evelyn Lynn helped secure $1 million in state funding to establish a Florida State University-sponsored reading research center in Daytona Beach that later hired her to run the place.

Lynn's hiring is raising eyebrows because Lynn, R-Daytona Beach, was offered the temporary post paying $2,300 a week -- which would work out to more than $100,000 a year -- after she pushed to fund the center as chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Committee in 2007.

FSU Provost Lawrence Abele said Thursday that he hired Lynn because of her longtime experience as a teacher and school district administrator in Volusia County, not because she got the center funded. The hiring does not violate any law, and Lynn consulted the state Senate's lawyer before accepting the job to ensure there would be no conflict of interest.

Lynn could not be reached for comment.

Reports of Lynn's hiring in September come after public outcry over the hiring of another state legislator at the University of Florida amid a budget crisis that is forcing the state's public universities to make millions in spending cuts.

Here’s what I wrote in the comments:

Luis,

Lynn also got her daughter a do-nothing job at UCF. Until UCF hired her daughter, Lynn was absolutely torturing UCF with inane information requests and suggestions that she might pull funding from UCF at Daytona.

Check out: http://ucflovesmoney.blogspot.com/2007/06/bribe.html