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Tampa city councilors have approved the payment of legal fees for a former member who was accused of sexually harassing one of his aides and her daughter.
TAMPA — Two years after the release of a monthslong investigation that found Orlando Gudes made a litany of sexual and crude comments to his former aide while he was a Tampa City Council member, he is seeking more than $45,000 to pay his legal expenses from defending himself. That’s because while the investigation — conducted by a private law firm at the city’s direction and on taxpayers’ dime .
Amid a discussion about options for new street signs in downtown Tampa, first-term City Council member Alan Clendenin stirred laugher from some of those gathered for the public meeting at Old City Hall. “I’m going to pull out my gay card and veto the color schemes on all of these,” he said last Thursday. He went to continue his comments but noticed that beside him, Gwen Henderson, Tampa’s only .