“The group of people the governor selected are as diverse as any group, geographically, ethnically, just in terms of their backgrounds and their experiences,” said Heuchan, who served as a top aide to former state House Speaker Daniel Webster, now a congressman.
Heuchan coordinated Webster’s picks to the 1997 Constitution Revision Commission and monitored the panel’s work, “giving him a deep understanding and familiarity of the CRC process,” Scott said in a statement.
Scott’s appointees are “extremely talented people and they have a broad range of skill sets,” Heuchan told The News Service of Florida in a telephone interview Friday.
“The governor is a people-person. So if there’s a common theme among these people, it’s that he’s comfortable with them because he knows them. They are a blend of very different experiences. He’s comfortable with them because their personalities blend together,” Heuchan said.
On Wednesday, Scott named Manatee County developer Carlos Beruff, who lost a bid for the U.S. Senate last year, as the chairman of the Constitution Revision Commission, which meets every two decades to decide on constitutional proposals to put before voters.
