Dan Krassner leaves Integrity Florida

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Integrity Florida was created in 2012 to serve as a nonpartisan research institute and government watchdog whose mission was to promote integrity in government and expose public corruption in the Sunshine State. It was led by two men, executive director Dan Krassner and research director Ben Wilcox.

Krassner left the group last month to become the political director of Represent.US, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that calls itself a “fiercely” nonpartisan movement to pass tough anti-corruption laws in cities and states across the U.S. to end the legalized corruption that has come to define modern politics.

Aided by former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, notorious former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramhoff, and Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig, Represent.U.S created the American Anti-Corruption Act in 2013, described by Lessig as perhaps the most ambitious reform proposal to address the “corruption” in Washington in 100 years.

Meanwhile, Wilcox will continue Integrity Florida’s work. After his role as executive director of Common Cause Florida for a decade, Wilcox has been with Integrity Florida since its creation. He says the group will continue to issue hard-hitting reports pointing out corruption in the Sunshine State.

A report looking at campaign finance in Florida, to be published in conjunction with the LeRoy Collins Institute, should be out in the next couple of months.

Krassner remains on Integrity Florida’s board of directors.

Mitch Perry

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at [email protected].



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