Chapter 18: Florida State Officials
Chapter 18: Florida State Officials
County Commissioners
Miami-Dade: Jose Pepe Diaz
Broward County: Marty Kiar, Mark Bogen, Chip LaMarca, Lois Wexler, Bean Furr, Tim Ryan, Barbara Sharief, Dale Holness
Pinellas County: Kenneth Welch, Dave Eggers, John Morroni, Janet Long, Karen Williams Seel
Hillsborough County: Toni PAPPAS, Sandra Ziehn, Carol Holden
Duval County: Alejo Garcia, David Garza, Rene, Gilberto Uribe
Brevard County: Andy Anderson, Jim Berfield
St. Lucie County: Kim Johnson. Fire District Commissioners: Rufus Alexander, Michele Berger, Johnson Kim, Chris Dzadovsky, Shannon Martin, Mark Gotz
Collier County: Georgia A. Hiller, Donna Fiala, Tom Henning, Commissioner Penny Taylor, and Tim Nance
Representatives
Debbie Wasserman, Alan Grayson, Patrick Murphy, David Jolly, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Corrine Brown, Ted Deutch, Ron DeSantis, Jeff Miller, Gwen Graham, Carlos Curbelo, Curt Clawson, Alice Hastings, John Mica, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ander Crenshaw, Kathy Castor, Ted Yoho, Frederica Wilson, Vern Buchanan, Gus Bilirakis, Bill Posey, Lois Frankel, Tom Rooney, Rich Nugent, Daniel Webster, Dennis A Ross,
Senators:
Joseph Abruzzo, , Thad Altman, , Aaron Bean, Lisbeth Benacquisto, Rob Bradley, Jeff Brandes, Oscor Braynon, Dwight Bullard, Jeff Clemens, Charles Dean, Nancy Detert, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, Greg Evers, Anitere Flores, Don Gaetz, Bill Galavano, Rene Garcia, Andy Gardiner, Audrey Gibson, Denise Grimsley, Alan Hays, Dorothy Hukill, Travis Hutson, Arthenia Joyner, Jac k Latvala, Tom Lee, John Legg, Gwen Margolis, Bill Montford, Joe Negron, Garrett Reitcher, Jeremy Ring, Maria Lotrs Sachs, David Simmons, Wilton Simpson, Christopher Smith, Eleanor Sobel, Darren Soto, Kelli Stargel, Geraldine Thompson
United States Senators
Bill Nelson, Senior Senator
Marco Rubio, Junior Senator
United States Representatives
Sandy Adams, Gus Bilirakis, Vern Buchanan, Kathy Castor, Curt Clawson, Carlos Curbelo, Ron DeSantis, Ted Deutch, Mario Diaz-Balart, ALAN Grayson, Rich Nugent, Bill Pospey, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
The only state legislators who are members of the Fire Service Caucus include Corrie Brown, Bill Posey, Richard Nugent, Gus Bilirakis, Vern Bucharan, Alcee Hastings, Lois Frankel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
One of the current issues facing fire service in Florida State is the problem of squeezed and shrinking budgets. Most of the fire departments have had to operate under tight budgets and cut expenditures on individual requirements and fire equipment (Walters, 2011). According to this writer, most of the elected politicians and officials have been singing the same song- that firefighters’ pay benefits and ranks are sacrosanct- but this is not the case as budget cuts continue to bite. The position of these elected officials on this issue is also that the firefighters’ welfare needs to be protected at all costs.
References
Florida Elected Officials. (n,d). Retrieved July, 1, 2016, from http://elections.mytimetovote.com/elected_officials/florida.html
Walters, J. (2011, January). Firefighters feel the squeeze of shrinking budgets. Governing. Retrieved July 1, 2016, from http://www.governing.com/topics/public-workforce/firefighters-feel-squeeze- shrinking-budgets.html
