After years of apparently not attending to the duty, the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee on Monday voted to give the boot to more than 30 notaries public, following an aggressive move by Gov. Rick Scott against people who violated their responsibilities or were disqualified for other reasons.
No one on the Senate panel remembered being a part of a similar hearing, with veteran Sen. Jack Latvala, a Clearwater Republican who chairs the committee, saying it was something “even I have never seen in the Florida Senate before.”
