February 25, 2021
Florida House District 2 Rep. Alex Andrade on Wednesday filed a new bill to impose term limits for the Emerald Coast Utility Authority board, days after another ECUA bill was withdrawn.
Andrade’s bill states that anyone elected to the ECUA board for three consecutive terms would not be eligible to run for the next succeeding term.
District 1 Rep. Michelle Salzman filed an ECUA term limit bill earlier this year, but withdrew the bill last week. She called for an extensive operational audit of ECUA and other water utilities created by special acts to gain “a clear picture of how we will move forward with legislation.” The bill had received the support of the local Legislative Delegation comprised of Salzman, Andrade and Sen. Doug Broxson.
February 20, 2021
Rep. Michelle Salzman has withdrawn a local bill that would have imposed term limits for members of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority. Instead, Salzman and other legislators across the state are setting their collective sights on ECUA and similar utilities across the state.
Salzman set out to rewrite that legislative act that gives ECUA its authority after a 2018 grand jury investigation that was not made public until September 2020. The freshman District 1 representative’s bill would have limited ECUA board members to three, four-year terms.
“What we have discovered during the course of this process is that this issue is not specific to just our area. There are other ‘ECUA’s’ around Florida and for that reason we are partnering with other legislators across the state to request the office of the Public Counsel to conduct a study of how some utilities in Florida currently operate and report its recommendations back to the legislature,” Salzman tol
Women’s group demands Bradford County DA’s resignation over sexual assault charges
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
TOWANDA – Fallout from sexual assault charges filed against the Bradford County district attorney continues with a demand that he resign and the revocation of his courthouse security clearance.
The Strong Women of Bradford County, which describes its members as politically and socially liberal, is working to oust Chad Michael Salsman, 44, of Wyalusing.
Strong Women established an online petition demanding Salsman’s resignation that as of Monday had more than 2,670 signatures. It is not about politics, spokesperson Elizabeth Owen said.
Salsman must resign to “restore public trust in the integrity of the office and the rule of law in Bradford County,” she said. “It is a disgrace to our county to be forced to have a man who has used his position as a lawyer and then DA to [allegedly] commit multiple acts of violence against vulnerable woman.”
Chad Michael Salsman, 44, a prosecutor in Bradford County, was charged on Wednesday with numerous crimes relating to the accusations of sexual assault and witness intimidation.
A Pennsylvania county prosecutor was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting women who were his clients in criminal and child custody cases when he worked as a defense attorney.