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Fri Jun 7, 2024, 05:30 PM Jun 2024

Just wrong: Elections chief gets $180k contract from Disney district on top of $205k elections salary

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For months, the Orlando Sentinel has been asking a simple question:

How many taxpayer-funded paychecks is Glen Gilzean cashing each month?

We knew the ethically embattled ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis was getting paid $205,000 to serve as Orange County’s newly appointed elections supervisor.

But neither Gilzean nor his former employer — the governmental district that provides municipal services to Disney — would answer questions about whether he was also still getting paid there.

Newly revealed documents show he is — to the tune of $20,000 a month.

That means Gilzean gets more money from the Disney district each month than he does for his supposedly full-time job running Orange County’s elections office.

That’s obscene. Especially when you consider that the Disney district is allegedly paying Gilzean for his expertise and experience there — a place he only worked 10 months and during which he generated one controversial headline after another.

It’s like a golden parachute for a guy who barely had time to take the pilot’s seat and narrowly avoided crashing while occupying it.
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