Ken Plante

Ken Plante
Kenneth A. Plantewas an American politician in the state of Florida...
bad buy campaign drink lobbyist parties past picking start time wait
If you think it's been bad in the past, you wait and see what the parties start doing. Because now the only time a lobbyist can actually socialize, buy a drink, have a drink where the member's not picking it up is at campaign fundraisers.
guaranteed repulsive
At the same time, it's a repulsive intrusion on our constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy.
attorneys build dime goodwill spend
I can't. All of my attorneys have said that if we're going to spend a dime to build goodwill with a legislator, then I've got to back away from it.
bad law
This law is so bad and it is riddled with holes.
ability ban beverages beyond buying clients cutting deeply far food gifts imposed invading listen lobbyists objection people privacy simply
We don't have any objection to a ban being imposed on lobbyists buying food, beverages or other gifts for lawmakers and their staff. The Legislature simply went far beyond this prohibition, though, cutting deeply into our ability to communicate for our clients and invading the privacy of people who simply want their representatives to listen to them.
beginning bill disclosure
We've told them from the beginning that if disclosure of fees was in this bill they passed, we would probably sue. And here we are.