For Putnam, this must be distressing. What is an Establishment Darling to do? Like the liar who has to keep telling lies after the first one, if you are Adam Putnam, you just ignore all of this because you are the GOP Establishment candidate and Big Sugar and Big Utilities love you, and you don’t need to obey the law. If you are willing to change health standards that protect consumers for a big donor and friend, ignoring election law is a piece of cake. The only real victims are transparency and truth and the very integrity of Florida’s elections disclosure system. Surely, Adam Putnam must believe that his campaign for Governor is more important than any of that.
We’ll see how long the “Opie effect” lasts when the light shines a little brighter on the man whose family sold its land to the government for $20M above appraisal, gets his real hearing in the public eye! The 2018 Campaign for Florida Governor will be a barn-burner for sure. We’ll have to wait and see if the barn being burned is Adam Putnam’s shrouded campaign.
