Carl Poff. Fred Powell. Nick Slotterback. Phil Stephenson. Sharon Taylor. Ryan Blood. Robbie Gould. Colleen Hacker. Bill McCollum. Sandy Miller. Matt Sauls. Jessica Blickenstaff Spinks. Georgina Adams Donnelly. Bill Blacksmith. Sarah Curtis Schall. Tim Gargan. Tom Justice. He has represented and consulted for companies from a variety of industries with manufacturing and other business interests in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America Bill served as the 36th Attorney General of Florida from Activities and Affiliations.
Share Linkedin Twitter Email Print. Disclaimer Unsolicited emails and other information sent to Dentons will not be considered confidential, may be disclosed to others, may not receive a response, and do not create a lawyer-client relationship. Cancel Accept. Redirection You are switching to another language. Please click Confirm below to continue. Important Notice Agree Disagree. The second, in , was a three-way primary race between McCollum, former Bush administration official Mel Martinez and businessman Doug Gallagher.
Despite being considered one of the most conservative members of Congress for many years in the state legislature, Martinez went on to capture the nomination. McCollum was one of 13 state attorneys general who initiated a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
He remarked that homosexual couples were as undesirable as parents as "fifteen-year-old couples, year-old couples, Thai-language-only speaking couples, blind and deaf parents, households with a pedophilic-behaving adult, households with practicing criminals, households with drug dealers and drug abusers, households with unemployed adults, households that advocate the overthrow of the U.
McCollum R and Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink D , both leading candidates in each of their respective party's primary race for the state's governor's office, were both hit with ethics complaints from constituents over ambiguous use of state-owned planes.
McCollum reportedly used it only twice from July to October , a significant decline from the 25 times he used it during that same period of time the year before. In the wake of the historic passage of President Barack Obama 's health care reform legislation on Christmas Eve in , McCollum joined 14 other state attorneys general in questioning not only the constitutionality of a specific controversial provision within the Senate version of the bill, but also exploring potential legal challenges to the measure as well.
The stipulation in question was the reported backroom deal Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struck with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to recruit him as the 60th vote needed to pass the measure, an arrangement "dubbed the " Nebraska Compromise" or the "Cornhusker Kickback" by Republican critics.
In a letter written to Reid as well as to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in late-January , McCollum argued that the "health care individual mandate provisions as currently drafted violate constitutional principles and lack constitutional authority for Congress to enact.
The morning after the United States House of Representatives narrowly passed the Senate reconciliation bill on healthcare reform, McCollum announced that he would be joining with South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster in challenging the "unconstitutional" healthcare legislation on the grounds that the measure "clearly violates the U. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
Liberal political activists calling themselves "Not in Our Name, Not on Our Dime" converged on Tallahassee to deliver what they claim was a "foot petition signed by more than 7, Floridians opposed to the use of taxpayer dollars to be used in the lawsuit that Attorney General Bill McCollum is leading to try to stop the new federal health care reform legislation.
On Friday, October 15, , a federal judge for the Northern District in Pensacola, Florida , ruled that the legal challenge to the federal healthcare reform measure filed by the plus state attorneys general, including McCollum, could move forward. Two weeks after clinching the statewide position in the general election, Pam Bondi , a former state prosecutor, brought McCollum aboard as a chair of her transitional team. While Judge Clyde Roger Vinson expressed skepticism over the states' argument "that the law forces states into a costly expansion of their Medicaid insurance programs for the poor," he was quite sympathetic to the claim that the mandate forcing all American citizens to purchase health insurance violates the Constitution.
Nearly two weeks after the United States Justice Department filed suit against the state of Arizona over its anti-illegal immigration law, Senate Bill - The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act SB , contending that it "interferes with federal immigration responsibilities," McCollum joined eight other Republican state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of the measure. McCollum announced his candidacy in the state's gubernatorial election on May 18, A survey conducted by Atlanta-based Strategic Vision LLC and published shortly after McCollum made his entry into the campaign official showed the state attorney general holding a substantial lead of 44 - 28 percent over his primary opponent.
A Rasmussen poll published in mid-February showed that in a head-to-head matchup between McCollum and the likely Democratic nominee, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, the state's top law enforcer holds a comfortable margin of victory of 48 - 35 percent over his general election challenger. Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. The couple had three sons together: Andrew, Douglas and Justin. McCollum is a practicing Episcopalian. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was used to recall this version of the website from February 10,
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