A.G. Gancarski
As discussion swirls about Kim Daniels, including issues related to her actual residency in Jacksonville, the issue is on the radar of the Rules Committee. However, it doesn’t seem likely that action will be taken in time to affect the May 19 election, Committee Chairman William Gulliford said Tuesday.
“I discussed this issue with the General Counsel and he supported the action I took at Rules Committee on Monday. At the end of the meeting,” Gulliford wrote in an email to Florida Politics. “I provided each member a copy of all correspondence and emails as well as your article. I indicated that should any member wish to initiate an investigation that opportunity was available to them.
“The Charter is very vague and the Rules Committee is not specifically tasked with such an action but it does seem logical that they would start it. Before any investigation the appropriate course would be an affirmative vote by the committee to proceed with such an investigation,” Gulliford wrote. “Normally the Chair does not offer motions. We will see how it evolves but I don’t think there is any appetite to pursue it prior to the election for fear it might be view as political action by the committee or individual council members. Furthermore, the outcome of the election could make the issue irrelevant.”
In addition to the election hanging in the balance, the timing is flawed, he reasoned.
“Lastly, the timing is such that procedurally, I don’t believe any action taken by the full council would see fruition before the May 19th election.”
Daniels’ local critics have pointed out issues from the divorce filing that bear scrutiny from council. As local activist David Vandygriff asserts in a Facebook post, “The court has granted her use of the Davie property three weeks out of the month, which would mean that she was not in town for a significant portion of the week. Furthermore, in the divorce papers she has sworn that her and the children have lived at the Davie address since 2009.”
As well, he wrote, “Within the divorce documents she states she receives no salary from the ministries and only has her income from city council. The Davie home has over a $3,000 monthly mortgage that is through the GI Bill, which requires that the property with GI mortgage must be her primary residence.”
With talk that activists are taking this issue to other media contacts, as well as to state and federal authorities, one supposes that we have not heard the last of this scandal. That story will probably not be in the The Florida Times-Union, however, which ran a full page ad for Daniels before early voting.
The ad was paid for by Shahid Khan, a maximum contributor to her campaign’s personal account, as well as by Lee Ann Rummell, the wife of Peter Rummell, via the Next Generation Leaders Trust ECO.
