Nearly 90 now have applied to Rick Scott for constitution review panel

Almost 90 people now have applied to Gov. Rick Scott for a seat on the panel that reviews the state’s constitution every 20 years.

According to a list the governor’s office released Monday morning, a few of the newest names interested in being on the Constitution Revision Commission are:

— Bob McClure, president and CEO of the James Madison Institute, a conservative policy think tank based in Tallahassee.

— Tena Pate, former chair of the Florida Commission on Offender Review, previously known as the Florida Parole Commission. Pate ran unsuccessfully for the nonpartisan Leon County supervisor of elections seat this year.

— Belvin Perry, former chief judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit. He presided over the Casey Anthony trial in 2011. Perry now is an attorney with the Morgan & Morgan law firm.

The Florida Constitution allows for a “revision commission” to meet every two decades to “examine the constitution, hold public hearings and … file its proposal, if any, of a revision of this constitution or any part of it.”

As governor, Scott will choose 15 of the 37 commissioners, and he also selects its chairperson. That means the Naples Republican will indirectly influence the retooling of the state’s chief governing document for an entire generation.

In addition to Scott, the House speaker and Senate president each get nine picks. GOP state Rep. Richard Corcoran of Land O’ Lakes will be speaker in 2017 and state Sen. Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican, will be president.

Republican Pam Bondi is automatically a member as attorney general, and Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga gets three picks. He has already begun taking applications.

Under law, the next commission is scheduled to meet 30 days before the beginning of the Legislature’s 2017 regular session. Any changes it proposes would be in the form of constitutional amendments, which would have to be approved by 60 percent of voters on a statewide ballot.

Scott’s application is here. His “appointments will be made no later than March 6, 2017,” according to his office.

The full alphabetical list of applicants as released by the governor’s office is below:

1. Andrade, Robert
2. Avalon, Victoria
3. Baade, David
4. Barbee, Donald
5. Belgard, Tildon
6. Beltran, Michael
7. Boggs, II, H.
8. Boroughs, Paul
9. Bronon, Charles
10. Brown, Donald
11. Browning, Kurt
12. Brummer, Frederick
13. Carlock, Margaret
14. Clayton, Robert
15. Crotty, Richard
16. Cullen, Lisa
17. Curtis III, Donald
18. Dantzler, Rick
19. Dawson, Warren
20. Dillinger, Robert
21. Duggan, Wyman
22. Eslinger, Donald
23. Feldman, Gregory
24. Folmar, Hayley
25. Foster, Brett
26. Furst, Jr, William
27. Gaetz, Matt
28. Gillis, Laurence
29. Goiran, Barbara
30. Goldstein, Stuart
31. Gosney, Steven
32. Handin, Jason
33. Harding, Nicholas
34. Haynie, Susan
35. Henderson II, Charles
36. Heyman, Sally
37. Jazil, Mohammad
38. Jones, Michael
39. Keiser, Belinda
40. Kinch, Abby
41. Kruppenbacher, Frank
42. Little, Joseph
43. Maier, Christopher
44. Marsh, James
45. Marstiller, Simone
46. Mason III, Scott
47. Matthews, Joseph
48. Maymon, David
49. McCabe, Bernie
50. McClure, Bob
51. Mellen III, Robert
52. Miller, Park
53. Millert, Wayne
54. Monahan, Jr., Gerald
55. Moore, Edwin
56. Moriarty, Mark
57. Nanian, Marjorie
58. Nunn, Kenneth
59. Pate, Tena
60. Patterson Jr, Ralph “Pat”
61. Perry, Belvin
62. Primrose, Nicholas
63. Puig, Diego
64. Rainka, Michael
65. Ramswell, Prebble
66. Roberson, Kelly
67. Robinson, IV, Grover
68. Rosenblatt, Howard
69. Runcie, Robert
70. Schifino, William
71. Simovitch, Audra
72. Smiley, Judge Elijah
73. Smith, Daniel
74. Stelzl, Henry
75. Svechin, Larisa
76. Thomas, Mary
77. Tuck, Andy
78. Upthagrove, Brett
79. VanValkenburgh, Jessica
80. Walsh, Anthony
81. Widerman, Scott
82. Wigder, Marc
83. Zilaitis, Frank
84. Zoes, Caroline