Scott, Atwater Mum On Insurance Commissioner Picks
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TALLAHASSEE (NSF) – After unwell to strech agreement final month, it remained misleading Monday either Gov. Rick Scott and state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater will be means to find common belligerent on a appointment of Florida’s subsequent word commissioner.
The state has captivated 16 additional possibilities for a position, bringing to 71 a series of applicants. Cabinet aides are approaching to plead a latest recommendations from Scott and Atwater during a assembly Wednesday.
Scott and a full Cabinet are approaching to again plead a position, that could compensate adult to $200,000 a year, on Apr 26. The governor’s bureau and Atwater’s bureau supposing small fact when asked about their stances Monday.
“The bureau continues to examination a field in allege of a arriving Cabinet meeting,” Atwater mouthpiece Ashley Carr pronounced in an email. “We’re scheming to plead relocating brazen stairs during a scheduled Cabinet aides assembly this week.”
Lauren Schenone, a mouthpiece for Scott, responded to identical inquiries by observant in an email that, “All interviews have been on a governor’s open schedule.”
Scott and Atwater contingency determine on a recommendation before Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and Attorney General Pam Bondi, a other members of a Cabinet, can opinion on a emissary of effusive Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty.
Scott final month deserted Atwater’s offer to offer a pursuit to state Rep. Bill Hager, a Delray Beach Republican and former Iowa word commissioner. Scott corroborated Jeffrey Bragg, who served as executive executive of a U.S. Department of a Treasury’s Terrorism Risk Insurance Program from 2003 to 2014.
In further to Bragg and Hager, a administrator final month interviewed David Altmaier, a emissary commissioner with a Office of Insurance Regulation, for a job.
When asked if Atwater would continue to behind Hager, Carr responded, “It’s a bargain that both of a formerly interviewed possibilities are still in a diversion — unless they’ve dynamic that they’re no longer interested.”
McCarty, who has served as word commissioner given 2003, announced in Jan that he would step down May 2.
Amy Bogner, a mouthpiece for a Office of Insurance Regulation, pronounced McCarty hasn’t been rigourously asked to check his depart date, though that he is peaceful to assistance in a transition to a new commissioner.
“He wants to make certain there is a well-spoken transition,” Bogner said.
Without accord from Scott and Atwater, a Cabinet concluded final month to keep active a initial 55 applications while giving others possibilities until Apr 15 to request for a job.
Those who have filed for a position given a final Cabinet assembly embody James Wrynn, a former superintendent of a New York State Insurance Department; Steve Petty, arch economist for Florida TaxWatch; William Messer, boss and CEO of Messer Insurance Group; Michael Bowens, who recently managed a University of Alabama System Board of Trustees after using a Alabama Attorney General’s Office of Consumer Protection; and Michael Conover, a clamp boss during Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company in Ohio.
The News Service of Florida’s Jim Turner contributed to this report.
