Legislators seek investigations of Marion Hammer’s failure to disclose large...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Two state legislators filed formal complaints Thursday with the state, Senate and House oversight authorities seeking investigations into Tallahassee lobbyist...
View ArticleAmid misconduct inquiry, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer says she’s not a lobbyist
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org When is a registered lobbyist not a lobbyist? If powerful NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer gets her way, it’s when she says so. The post Amid misconduct inquiry, NRA...
View ArticleNRA’s Marion Hammer got illegal loans from nonprofit she runs, Unified...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer has obtained several apparently illegal loans over the years from Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the Tallahassee nonprofit she founded...
View ArticleReport: Russian oligarch’s companies sent $1 million to counterparts at...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A Russian oligarch's companies reportedly sent $1 million to counterparts at Pompano Beach's Kalashnikov USA. > The post Report: Russian oligarch’s companies...
View ArticleNRA lobbyist Marion Hammer to face ethics commission hearing
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida’s top gun lobbyist Marion Hammer faces a probable cause hearing next week before the Florida Commission on Ethics regarding her failure to disclose...
View ArticleFlorida Commission on Ethics lifts NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer off the hook
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The Florida Commission on Ethics has found “no probable cause” to believe that National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer didn’t adhere to state lobbyist...
View ArticlePretzel logic, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer and the Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Why did the Florida ethics commission vote to let NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer off without sending her case to the governor and cabinet for a possible public...
View ArticleNRA lobbyist Marion Hammer’s hefty ‘consulting’ fees a focus of New York AG’s...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer was identified Thursday in a New York Attorney General’s lawsuit as being the beneficiary of hundreds of...
View ArticleN.Y. figured out NRA’s dishonesty, but Florida Senate, ethics commission...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Corruption. The dictionary defines it as “dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people.” How else to explain the failures of both the Florida...
View ArticleNRA’s Marion Hammer isn’t really retiring, just dodging lobbyist disclosure...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Last week, the National Rifle Association announced that its longtime Tallahassee-based lobbyist Marion Hammer will “step down” but “continue to serve as an...
View ArticleSupreme Court to decide whether Marsy’s Law allows Florida cops who kill to...
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org The next time there’s a police-involved shooting in Florida the media may not be entitled to the name of the officer who pulled the trigger. Reporters and the public...
View ArticleFlorida’s red flag gun law enforced haphazardly five years after Parkland...
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org In 2018 Florida legislators—even the NRA posse—bowed to the urgent need for gun control after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: They passed...
View ArticleLobbyist Marion Hammer’s NRA sugar daddy LaPierre is gone, but she’s still...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre’s ticket to ride the NRA’s gravy train was canceled last week with a New York jury’s widely reported corruption...
View ArticleNRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to...
View ArticleLawsuit: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer built gun, silencer from 3D-printing...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A Texas company defending itself in a fast-moving federal copyright lawsuit in Orlando has filed court papers declaring that the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO...
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