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Adam Putnam may look like a grown-up Opie Taylor, but his voting record, pathetic enforcement of food safety regulations and his abuse of campaign finance laws make it clear that he is not the squeaky-clean son of the best Sheriff in the South.  In fact, it seems that if Putnam can’t vote to make a law work better for the Establishment, he stops enforcing it.  And, if the laws are inconvenient to Putnam and his political committees, he simply ignores them.

Mr. Establishment Goes to Washington

First elected to the Florida House as a 22-year old with all the worldly experience of a college degree, Putnam quickly outgrew the confines and small budgets of Tallahassee.  He was ready for the big-time and rapidly moved up to Washington, DC, the richest city in America, where people get rich by sponging off the hard work of taxpayers.

Adam Putnam fits right in with the Washington power elite, and he rewarded them time and time again for their kindness to him.  When it came to protecting the system, the very essence of the Establishment itself, Putnam spent ten years in Washington greasing the wheels of prosperity with votes to expand the debt ceiling, increase budgets, bail out Wall Street and provide Cash for Clunkers all while voting EIGHT times to raise his own pay. It's great work if you can get it!  And when it came time for Putnam’s family to sell their property, the government, conveniently, wanted to buy it at a price $20M higher than it had appraised for only a year earlier.  Putnam, serving on both corporate boards of the selling entity, says he kept his hands off the deal, kind of like a blind trust - with 20/20 vision.

RATS!

During the 2000 Presidential race, Al Gore called out the Bush campaign for subliminally using the word “RATS” in a campaign ad.

But instead of making rats appear, Putnam uses his power to make rodents, or at least their droppings, disappear! Apparently, if you are a grocery giant with a great reputation but have big problems with food safety violations – like rat poop in your stores – Adam Putnam is a good friend to have.  All you have to do to make your regulatory problems go away is to make massive campaign contributions to the Putnam political machine. In 24 hours of your problems garnering attention, all your food safety violations will disappear!  Literally, completely removed from a state agency website.  And we thought nothing ever disappeared on-line.   If only Google could be so accommodating!

Laws are for Other People!   

And then there are those pesky Campaign Finance laws – requiring disclosure of who gives campaign cash and where it is spent.