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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Serving the people--and themselves, Herald Tribune

December 21, 2008
By Joe Follick


TALLAHASSEE - In campaign ad attacks this year, state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald was criticized for "double dipping" for holding jobs as a part-time lawmaker and as a professor at state-funded New College in Sarasota. The ads showed an overweight man, not Fitzgerald, slobbering over a bowl of ice cream.

But in an "only in Tallahassee" moment, the man who oversaw the Republican campaign against Fitzgerald and other House Democrats is at the center of his own double-dipping controversy by taking a job at a community college after snagging tens of millions of dollars in funding for his new employer.

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