Bill Mccollum Thinking of Running Again
Attorney General of Florida
Ira William "Bill" McCollum, Jr. (born July 12, 1944, in Brooksville, Florida) is a former Chaser General of Florida, serving from 2006 to 2010. On May 18, 2009, he appear his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the race for Governor of Florida.[1] Following an intense primary campaign, McCollum lost the party nomination to Rick Scott on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, afterwards receiving slightly over 43 percent of the vote.[2]
Biography
Didactics
- Graduated from Hernando Loftier Schoolhouse
- Available'southward degree, University of Florida (1965)
- Juris Doctor degree, University of Florida (1968)
Professional experience
Shortly later on graduating from constabulary school, McCollum joined the United States Navy's Guess Advocate Full general'south Corps, remaining within active duty from 1969 until 1972. After serving 23 years every bit an officer, he retired from the United States Naval Reserve as a Commander (O-5) in the United States JAG Corps in 1992.
Political career
Florida Attorney Full general (2006-2010)
McCollum ran for Attorney General of the State of Florida, candidature on the message of "making Florida a safer place to live, work, and raise a family unit."[3] He defeated state Sen. Skip Campbell in the full general election.[iv]
U.S. House of Representatives (1980-2001)
McCollum was first elected to serve as a member of the U.Due south. House of Representatives in 1980. It was during his 20-year tenure that McCollum founded the Business firm Republican Task Forcefulness on Terrorism and Anarchistic Warfare, chairing the commission for six years. Also at this fourth dimension he served three terms on the Firm Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, two of which every bit Chairman of its Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence, in addition to vice chairmanship of the Firm Banking Committee. McCollum garnered national attention when he was selected as i of xv members to serve on the House committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair and 1 of the Business firm managers at President Bill Clinton'south impeachment trial in 1998.
In the years subsequently retiring from the state legislature in 2001, McCollum launched ii unsuccessful bids for the Republican nomination in races for the U.s.a. Senate. The beginning, campaigning to fill up the seat left vacant past retiring Republican Senator Connie Mack, saw him lose the party nomination to former Congressman Beak Nelson. The second, in 2004, was a 3-way primary race betwixt McCollum, former Bush administration official Mel Martinez and man of affairs Doug Gallagher. Despite being considered one of the almost bourgeois members of Congress for many years in the state legislature, Martinez went on to capture the nomination.
Noteworthy events
Affordable Intendance Act lawsuit
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- Run across as well: State Attorneys General Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
McCollum was 1 of 13 country attorneys general who initiated a 2010 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The suit argued that the individual mandate fell outside of the federal authorities'southward authorization and that the requirement for state Medicaid expansion of coverage violated land sovereignty. The case was ultimately heard before the Supreme Court, which ruled to uphold the individual mandate as falling within Congress' authority to levy taxes and struck downward the Medicaid expansion as being unduly coercive in light of the withholding of funding that would result from noncompliance.[5]
Gay adoption witness
McCollum, in December 2009, was criticized for using $120,000 in country funds to hire psychologist George Rekers as a star good witness to testify in defence force of Florida's ban on homosexual couples adopting children. Rekers, an ordained Southern Baptist government minister and former officer and scientific counselor for the National Clan for Enquiry & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), was severely condemned for comments made during his court testimony, which some deemed to be particularly bigoted. He remarked that homosexual couples were as undesirable as parents as "15-year-old couples, 90-year-old couples, Thai-linguistic communication-just speaking couples, blind and deafened parents, households with a pedophilic-behaving adult, households with practicing criminals, households with drug dealers and drug abusers, households with unemployed adults, households that advocate the overthrow of the U.S. authorities, households with an active terrorist, households with sexually promiscuous unmarried men and women co-habitating and households with homosexually behaving adults all have either inherent instability or inherent disadvantage, stress, and potential harm to placed children."[6]
Rekers' testimony was cited as the primary reason why Judge Cindy Lederman of Florida'due south Eleventh Circuit Courtroom shot down the measure. She ruled that his testimony "was far from a neutral and unbiased recitation of the relevant scientific evidence," and that "Dr. Rekers' behavior are motivated by his potent ideological and theological convictions. … The court cannot consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy."[six]
State plane usage
McCollum (R) and Florida's Chief Financial Officeholder, Alex Sink (D), both leading candidates in each of their corresponding party's principal race for the state's governor's office, were both hit with ideals complaints from constituents over cryptic use of state-owned planes. These came in the wake of a June 2009 article published in the Miami Herald/Times detailing how a number of state officials, chief among them McCollum and Sink, "had racked upwardly hundreds of thousands of dollars in flights, including questionable employ of planes past family members and use of the planes to commute to work from their homes in other parts of the land." It was reported that even though Sink'south flights charged more to Florida taxpayers then McCollum's ($414,000 compared to $280,000), the attorney general used the state plane far more "for one-way trips that resulted in an empty plane flying to or from Tallahassee to an airport near his suburban Orlando domicile."[7]
Since the Miami Herald/Tribune article was published, personal use of the land plane became far less frequent. McCollum reportedly used information technology but twice from July to October 2009, a meaning decline from the 25 times he used it during that same period of time the year before. This resulted in savings of $53,000 for Florida taxpayers.
Political issues
Healthcare reform
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- See also: State Attorneys General Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
In the wake of the historic passage of President Barack Obama'due south wellness care reform legislation on Christmas Eve in 2009, McCollum joined 14 other state attorneys general in questioning not merely the constitutionality of a specific controversial provision within the Senate version of the bill, just besides exploring potential legal challenges to the measure as well. The stipulation in question was the reported backroom deal Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struck with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to recruit him every bit the 60th vote needed to laissez passer the measure, an arrangement "dubbed the "Nebraska Compromise" or the "Cornhusker Kickback" past Republican critics." The agreement gave Nebraska exemption from its share of the Medicaid expansion, "a cleave out that is expected to cost the federal regime $100 million over 10 years."[8] [9]
In a letter written to Reid besides as to and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Business firm Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in late-January 2010, McCollum argued that the "health care individual mandate provisions as currently drafted violate constitutional principles and lack ramble authority for Congress to enact."[10] He warned that the constitutionality of the law was questionable considering that Congress had never earlier compelled American citizens, under threat of economical forcefulness, to purchase unwanted products or services merely as a condition of existence.
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The morning after the United States Firm of Representatives narrowly passed the Senate reconciliation neb on healthcare reform, McCollum announced that he would be joining with South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster in challenging the "unconstitutional" healthcare legislation on the grounds that the measure "clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty."[11] [12]
Initially, Governor Charlie Crist was quite supportive of McCollum's legal challenge against the federal healthcare law, chastising Democrats for refusing "to pass meaningful, bipartisan health care legislation with real solutions, and instead passed a bill that includes an all-encompassing government overreach and intrusion into our citizens' personal freedoms."[13] Nevertheless, subsequently it became apparent he would not win the Republican nomination in the race for the The states Senate and he switched his political party amalgamation to that of an independent, Crist substantially went back on this argument when, during an interview, he stated that if he had been in the Senate, he would accept voted in favor of the healthcare reform legislation.[14]
Liberal political activists calling themselves "Not in Our Name, Not on Our Dime" converged on Tallahassee to deliver what they merits was a "60-foot petition signed by more than 7,300 Floridians opposed to the use of taxpayer dollars to exist used in the lawsuit that Attorney General Neb McCollum is leading to endeavor to stop the new federal health intendance reform legislation."[fifteen] At around the same fourth dimension, Quinnipiac University released information from a survey showing a majority of state residents interviewed, nearly 54 percent, opposed McCollum's legal activity against the federal healthcare reform mensurate.[16]
On Friday, October 15, 2010, a federal judge for the Northern District in Pensacola, Florida, ruled that the legal challenge to the federal healthcare reform measure filed by the 20-plus state attorneys general, including McCollum, could move frontwards.[17]
Two weeks afterwards clinching the statewide position in the general election, Pam Bondi, a former state prosecutor, brought McCollum aboard every bit a chair of her transitional squad.[18] The next twenty-four hour period, she and McCollum sent a letter to 13 other states including Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma, each of which were Republican selection-ups in the midterm election, requesting they join the 20 states that had already jointly filed suit confronting the federal government.[19]
While Judge Clyde Roger Vinson expressed skepticism over united states of america' argument "that the law forces states into a costly expansion of their Medicaid insurance programs for the poor," he was quite sympathetic to the claim that the mandate forcing all American citizens to purchase wellness insurance violates the Constitution.[20] Vinson remarked that "the private mandate [would be] "a not bad leap" on the notion of economic activity that falls within the Commerce Clause's parameters" should the Supreme Courtroom adopt that every bit a constitutional basis for the constabulary.[21] [22]
Illegal immigration
Nearly two weeks after the The states Justice Section filed suit confronting the state of Arizona over its anti-illegal immigration constabulary, Senate Bill 1070 - The Support Our Law Enforcement and Condom Neighborhoods Human action (SB 1070), contending that it "interferes with federal immigration responsibilities," McCollum joined 8 other Republican state attorneys full general in filing an amicus cursory in support of the measure.[23] [24] The Florida Attorney General, who initially opposed the legislation "earlier information technology was revised to effort to eliminate racial profiling," remarked that "the real outcome hither is the states have the right to enforce the laws, federal or country, and at that place'southward no right for the federal authorities to try and pre-empt that."[25]
Other roles
- Chair, Seminole Canton Republican Executive Committee (1976-1980)
- President/Chairman, Salubrious Florida Foundation (2002-present)
- Member/Board of Governors, State University System (2005-2006)
- Fellow member, American Bar Association
- Fellow member, American Legion
- Member, Board of Directors, American Security Quango
- Fellow member, Florida Bar Association
- Member, Florida Blue Key
- Member/Board of Directors, James Madison Institute
- Fellow member, Orange County Bar Association
- Member, Reserve Officers Association
- Member, Florida Domestic Security Advisory Panel
Elections
2010
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- Run across also: Florida gubernatorial election, 2010
| 2010 Race for Governor - Republican Primary[26] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Candidate | Vote Per centum | |
| Republican Party |  a Rick Scott | 46.three% | |
| Republican Party | Bill McCollum | 43.5% | |
| Republican Party | Mike McAllister | ten.i% | |
| Total Votes | one,294,438 | ||
Bill McCollum for Florida Governor Entrada logo
Race background
McCollum announced his candidacy in the state's gubernatorial election on May 18, 2009.[1] He faced off against 7 other challengers for the Republican nomination, amongst them State Senator Paula Dockery. A survey conducted by Atlanta-based Strategic Vision LLC and published shortly subsequently McCollum made his entry into the campaign official showed the land attorney general holding a substantial atomic number 82 of 44 - 28 percent over his primary opponent.[27]
A Rasmussen poll published in mid-Feb 2010 showed that in a caput-to-caput matchup between McCollum and the likely Autonomous nominee, Primary Financial Officer Alex Sink, the state'southward acme law enforcer holds a comfy margin of victory of 48 - 35 pct over his general election challenger.[28]
All the same, 4 months after, subsequently Rick Scott, onetime CEO of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain, had officially launched his gubernatorial entrada, the latest survey conducted by Quinnipiac University shows McCollum downwardly a startling thirteen points to political newcomer Scott.[29] Analysts argue that the shift in public sentiment against McCollum is not a reflection of their views about him.[30]
2006
- 2006 Race for Attorney Full general - Republican Primary
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- Nib McCollum ran unopposed in this contest
| 2006 Race for Attorney General - General Election[31] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Per centum | |
| Republican Party | a Neb McCollum | 52.7% | |
| Autonomous Party | Walter Campbell | 47.ii% | |
| Write-In | 0.1% | ||
| Total Votes | iv,645,967 | ||
Entrada donors
2006
| 2006 Race for Attorney General - Campaign Contributions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Raised | $4,180,288 | |||
| Total Raised by Primary Opponent | Northward/A | |||
| Total Raised by Gen. Election Opponent | $2,098,361 | |||
| Superlative v Contributors | Florida Republican Party $911,401 (21.lxxx% of Full) | |||
| Public Fund $897,104 (21.46%) | ||||
| Bill McCollum $9,540 (0.23%) | ||||
| Manatee County Republican Executive Committee $5,000 (0.12%) | ||||
| Bankers Insurance Group $4,000 (0.10%) | ||||
| Individuals five. Institutions | $i,425,240 (34.1%) | |||
| $883,479 (21.1%) | ||||
| In v. Outside State | $4,027,958 (97.2%) | |||
| $114,407 (2.8%) | ||||
Personal
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McCollum currently resides in Longwood, Florida, with his married woman, Ingrid Seebohm. The couple had three sons together: Andrew, Douglas and Justin. McCollum is a practicing Episcopalian.
See also
- Governor of Florida
- Florida gubernatorial ballot, 2010
External links
- Pecker McCollum'due south Facebook contour
- Neb McCollum'due south Twitter account
- Project Vote Smart - Bill McCollum biography
- Billmccollum.com 2010 Entrada website
The Net Annal'south Wayback Motorcar was used to think this version of the website from February 10, 2010.
Footnotes
- ↑ i.0 1.1 Palm Beach Mail, "Republican McCollum announces entrada for governor" 18 May, 2009
- ↑ Bradenton Herald, "Bill McCollum concedes GOP governor'south race merely doesn't endorse Rick Scott," August 25, 2010
- ↑ The Florida Bar News, "McCollum returns to public service," December 15, 2006
- ↑ Dominicus Lookout man, "Mccollum Defeats Campbell," Nov viii, 2006
- ↑ SCOTUSblog, "Florida five. Department of Health and Human Services," accessed August 11, 2020
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Orlando Weekly, "Florida'southward Case Against Gay Adoption" 18 Dec. 2008
- ↑ Miami Herald, "State planes used less in '09" 17 Nov. 2009
- ↑ Politico, "GOP AGs may sue over health neb" 24 December. 2009
- ↑ Creative Loafing, "McCollum joins other AG's in protesting Ben Nelson & Nebraska's health care deal" 31 Dec. 2009
- ↑ Legal Newsline, "McCollum: Wellness care beak is unconstitutional" 20 January. 2010
- ↑ ABC Activeness News, "McCollum to file lawsuit against health care beak" 22 March, 2010
- ↑ Hillsborough County Elections 2010 Examiner, "Florida Chaser General Neb McCollum says health care bill is unconstitutional , will sue" 22 March, 2010
- ↑ Hillsborough County Elections 2010 Examiner, "Charlie Crist backs Pecker McCollum'southward wellness care lawsuit, releases statement (video)" 23 March, 2010
- ↑ TPM "In One Afternoon, Charlie Crist Flip-Flop-Flips On Healthcare Reform" 27 Aug. 2010
- ↑ Creative Loafing, "Activists to Bill McCollum: Shut down your health care lawsuit" twenty Apr, 2010
- ↑ Quinnipiac University, "McCollum Leads Tight Florida Governor's Race, Quinnipiac Academy Poll Finds; Obama Approving Up As Voters Back Offshore Drilling" nineteen April, 2010
- ↑ Central Florida News 13 "Pecker McCollum's health intendance overhaul lawsuit can proceed, judge rules," October 15, 2010
- ↑ The Palm Beach Post, "AG-elect Bondi taps bipartisan AG primary losers for transition team" 17 Nov. 2010
- ↑ Sunshine State News, "20 States Upwardly for Health-Care Claiming, simply Bill McCollum, Pam Bondi Look to Get More than" 19 Nov. 2010
- ↑ Wall Street Periodical, "Judge Leery of Health Mandate" 17 December. 2010
- ↑ St. Petersburg Times, "McCollum's lawsuit confronting Obamacare raises legitimate questions" 16 December. 2010
- ↑ Hot Air, "Estimate in 20-state ObamaCare instance expresses skepticism over mandate" 17 December. 2010
- ↑ Play tricks News, "Justice Department Files Suit Confronting Arizona Immigration Law" 6 July, 2010
- ↑ Orlando Lookout, "McCollum joins in legal fight over Arizona clearing law" xiv July, 2010
- ↑ Miami Herald, "McCollum files cursory supporting Ariz. immigration" 14 July, 2010 (expressionless link)
- ↑ Florida Section of State - 2010 Republican Gubernatorial Chief Election Results
- ↑ Orlando Lookout man, "New poll: Crist is cruising; McCollum not and so much" 5 June, 2009
- ↑ Rasmussen Reports, "Florida Governor: McCollum 48%, Sink 35%" 23 Feb. 2010
- ↑ Quinnipiac University Polling Establish, "Scott Tops Mccollum In Florida GOP Gov Race, Quinnipiac Academy Poll Finds; Dem Senate Master Race Too Shut To Phone call" 10 June, 2010
- ↑ Hot Air, "Scott takes 13-bespeak lead over McCollum in FL GOP gubernatorial primary poll" 10 June, 2010
- ↑ Florida Section of Country - 2006 General Election Results
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