House lawmakers have taken steps to repeal the state employee charitable campaign.
Florida’s state worker charity program has come under fire for declining contributions and eye-popping payments to a private vendor called Solix. Rep. Loranne Ausley (D-Tallahassee) says the problem isn’t the idea—it’s the New Jersey company that took over the campaign in 2011.
“That company ran this program ran this program into the ground,” Ausley says. “That gave the governor and DMS the convenient excuse they wanted all along to suspend the campaign and today here we are repealing it altogether.”
DMS is the department of management services and it’s the agency in charge of selecting who manages the program. Ausley filed a measure to change what organization can run the campaign but that bill has yet to get a hearing.
