Senate President Kathleen Passidomo names committee Chairs, shows some bipartisanship
Republican Senate President Kathleen Passidomo of Naples has selected committee Chairs for the next two years, and like her predecessor, she named several Democrats to leadership roles in a show of bipartisanship.
But unlike Wilton Simpson and other Senate Presidents before her, she did not name any Democrats to full Chair positions, giving only Miami Democratic Sen. Jason Pizzo an alternate Chair role on the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee. He’ll have to cede that job to Republican Boca Raton Rep. Mike Caruso after a year.
In a memo to members of the chamber, Passidomo said that she had met with each Senator beforehand and tried to give “great deference” to their areas of interest befo...
