ORLANDO, Fla. -- State Senator Gary Siplin (D-Orlando) jumped over a fence to avoid Channel 9's cameras minutes after learning he was charged with two crimes. The state attorney said Siplin used taxpayer money to pay for part of his campaign.
Siplin turned himself into the Polk County jail late Monday afternoon and bonded out. Before that, Siplin made a dramatic exit from his office Monday. Even for a politician who has become known for some unusual behavior, it was jaw-dropping.
Siplin scaled a chain-link fence behind his senate office in Pine Hills and jumped into a waiting car.
So what were his crimes?
"This case centers on a person in a position of trust utilizing approximately three months of labor, funded with taxpayer dollars, for his personal political campaign -- not for the job a state employee was being paid to do," Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar said. "That amounts to grand larceny from the people of Florida."
Lamar said Siplin requested two months leave for an employee to work on his campaign and kept her working there on public payrolls after that period ended. He is also accused of using the services of two other public employees over shorter amounts of time.
The Democrats seem to make a habit of this.
In letters sent separately by each woman to the House ethics committee, the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office, they allege that Conyers demanded that aides work on several local and state campaigns and forced them to baby-sit and chauffeur his children. They also charge that some aides illegally used Conyers’s congressional offices to enrich themselves.
Democrats and corruption - no surprise there.
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