On April 9, the developer behind Lakewood Ranch gave $10,000 to a political committee chaired by prominent Tallahassee lobbyist Dave Ramba.
About eleven weeks later, that same committee paid $12,000 to a company run by Jon Mast, the husband of Sarasota County Commissioner Teresa Mast.
In September, Mast joined her fellow commissioners in approving the developer’s request to rezone land to build more than 1,000 homes, overruling the recommendation of the Sarasota County Planning Commission…