With Rep. Steve Precourt resigning, Don Weatherford opens up the books

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With Representative Steve Precourt resigning to become executive director of the Orlando expressway authority, Don Will Weatherford – the boss of bosses – has opened up the books and upped three members of the Florida House to fill slots previously occupied by Precourt.

According to a memo distributed Friday afternoon, Don Weatherford has upped Representative James Grant to membership on the powerful Appropriations Committee, while Reps. Frank Artiles and Jim Boyd have been made caporegimes, err, chairmen of the Government Operations Subcommittee and the State Affairs Committee, respectively.

Salute!

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