Shot: State Representative Jamie Grant confirmed to Creative Loafing last week that he and and a few other legislators are looking at crafting a bill calling for the demise of Hillsborough County’s Public Transportation Commission.
“I don’t want to be in a position of demolishing an inefficient agency or an inefficient arm of government at any level and then replacing it with another inefficient or obstructive agency,” the two-term Republican said. “I don’t know if it will be a local bill. But anything I introduce will be through the lens of embracing innovation here in Tampa Bay and trying to focus on job creation and letting people know that this is going to be a region and a place [where] innovators and entrepreneurs are going to be welcome.”
Chaser: Tampa Bay’s most influential locally-based lobbying firm, Corcoran & Johnston, registered with the state on Wednesday to represent the PTC. The contract is reportedly worth ninety thousand dollars per year.
At that rate, Corcoran & Johnston should ask Grant to suggest aloud that other agencies be shuttered.
