From Bill Freeman Tweet
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The past two months have been unusually turbulent for Gov. Bill Lee and his original cabinet members.Â
In October, two of the governorâs commissioners â Hodgen Mainda, commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance, and Danielle Barnes, commissioner of the Department of Human Services â resigned. Mainda resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations, and Barnes left upon finding a new job in the private sector. Commissioner Courtney Rogers of the Department of Veterans Services resigned the week of Thanksgiving along with Tilman Goins, a deputy commissioner in the department. Both were accused of separate forms of misconduct, with most of the allegations proven true upon investigation. Rogers and Goins served as state legislators from 2012 to 2018.Â