Christine Jordan Sexton
Former lawmaker Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff is now a registered lobbyist.
Bogdanoff registered last week to lobby with EBS Consulting in Fort Lauderdale.
Eleven clients have signed with Bogdanoff since January. Lobbyist registration reports show they include Tampa Electric, Broward Principals and Administrative Assistants, Florida Association of Local Housing Finance Authorities, Florida East Coast Industries and Culpepper & Terpening, among others.
“I’ve always done advocacy work at the local level,” Bogdanoff told Florida Politics. “Now I have the opportunity to stay in the process I love so much and work on the issues I care about.”
She is registered to lobby both the executive and legislative branches.
A lawyer and Republican, Bogdanoff, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2004 and served there until November 2010 when she was elected to the Florida Senate. But when the Legislature redrew her district in 2012 she was placed in a more Democratic-leaning area and was pitted against Sen. Maria Sachs, a Democrat.
Though Bogdanoff raised more money than Sachs she was defeated at the polls in a bitterly fought campaign. Sachs defeated her again in 2014 capturing 52 percent of the vote.
