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Ray Sansom: The full interview (with video), NWF Daily News

January 24, 2009
By Tom McLaughlin

Almost since the day he was sworn in as speaker of the Florida House, state representative and Destin resident Ray Sansom has been on the defensive.

It started, he said, the day after Thanksgiving, when a report was published stating he'd taken a $110,000 part-time job with Northwest Florida State College, a school he'd helped get $31 million in appropriations during the 2007 legislative session.

The controversy grew when it was learned that Sansom had attended a quiet little public meeting with college President Bob Richburg and seven members of its board of trustees on March 24, 2008.

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