The fall of one of Broward Republican’s bright, shining new faces was sudden and shocking Friday.
In an extraordinary act, Gov. Rick Scott suspended David Di Pietro as chair of the deeply troubled Broward Health Board of Commissioners.
It was an astonishing move for a governor to suspend someone who has not been charged with any crime.
The stated reason: Di Pietro was interfering in the state investigation of the troubled public health system.
Commissioner Darryl Wright, the chair of the commission’s audit committee, was also removed.
“This is an astonishing, unpresidented move,” one political insider with three decades of experience in Tallahasse.
“The only thing the governor seeks from his appointments is that they don’t embarrass him. The governor’s staff must have believed that David would end up embarrassing the governor and wanted to cut off the danger immediately. This was the governor’s staff protecting the governor,” the insider opined.
Forget Wright, who was largely unknown in politics. It was the collapse of Di Pietro’s political career that had Broward political types burning up their cell phones late Friday. An up-and-coming Republican political power in a largely Democratic county, the move against him by his former friend Scott was totally, 100 percent unexpected.
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