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  • Gov. Rick Scott 'expects' appointee to leave Aviation board after misogynistic Facebook post

    09/15/2015 5:14:59 PM PDT · by Brad from Tennessee · 6 replies
    Tampa Bay Times ^ | September 15, 2015 | By Steve Contorno
    TAMPA — Gov. Rick Scott wants an appointee who called a local public relations consultant a "tax-payer subsidized slut" to resign his seat on the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority board, Scott's office said Tuesday. But the appointee, influential Republican activist Sam Rashid, said he intends to stay put — for now. Rashid's misogynistic comments, made Sept. 2 on Facebook, were directed at Beth Leytham, a Tampa consultant hired to help win public support for the county transportation sales tax referendum known as Go Hillsborough. In the same post, he alleged that Leytham made "several million dollars" as an "unregistered lobbyist...