Yesterday on “Pensacola Speaks,” the president of the Florida League of Women Voters, Pamela Goodman, discussed why she doesn’t think State Sen. Don Gaetz should be the next president of the University of West Florida.
She outlined the League’s legal battle to get the State Legislature to comply with the Fair Districts amendment, and Gaetz’s role in the district map that was eventually thrown out by the courts.
“I used to run a billion and a half dollar corporation, hired and fired people everyday,†aid Goodman. “When you hire someone of this sort of magnitude to take on this kind of responsibility for business, academia, or any kind of large organization, we would hope that the board would do their due diligence and not overlook or conveniently forget these kinds of facts.â€
She said her objection to Gaetz being named UWF president was not a personal vendetta between the state senator and her or the League of Women Voters of Florida.
“Truly, this is about 3.1 million people that voted on fair districts way back in 2010,†she said. “The fact that the legislature led in the Senate by Senator Don Gaetz basically flipped their finger at them, laughed at them and absolutely refused to follow their mandates.â€
Goodman said, “I’m not sure that a person who did that in a high government position is someone we want leading one of our premier universities in the state of Florida.â€