A key component of Gov. Jeb Bush’s One Florida Initiative could be eliminated under a proposal that has been suggested by a House budget panel. But the move is already drawing fire from some legislators and the NAACP.
Rep. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla and chairman of the House budget committee that wants to eliminate the Office of Supplier Diversity and hand over some of its work to another part of state government, says that the current office isn't doing it's job.
He cites a decline in minority spending levels in state government over the last few years. The office was set up by Bush at the time he ended the use of racial preferences in state contracts.
Bush, while not commenting directly about the cut, told the Florida Tribune that "supplier diversity takes work."
Read more about this and some other state budget-related news here.
Well of course the "Office of Supplier Diversity" is not doing anything. It wasn't supposed to do anything. That was the plan. Duh!
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