Miami WTF
A Florida law firm will file a lawsuit early next month challenging the state after an expanded Form 6 document. The financial disclosure requirement will apply to elected city officials, and several have quit because of it.
Here on the Suncoast, Jake Spooner stepped down as a commissioner for the city of Bradenton Beach instead of having to file out the new form.
In Longboat Key, Debbie Murphy also stepped down as a commissioner.
The attorney leading the lawsuit, Jamie Cole, says over 100 elected officials across the state have stepped down ahead of the financial disclosure requirements.
The attorney says the lawsuit is based upon the right to privacy and free speech.
The form will require elected officials to report their exact net worth, their home address, items of value inside the home, and ever source of income, among other things.
“This form 6 is more disclosure than is required of the President of the United States, the Vice President, congress people, it’s more disclosure than is required in any other state in the country,” said Attorney Jamie Cole. “This is a very significant intrusion of privacy.”
