Forty-one seconds.
That’s all it took for the Broward County Commission to gleefully enact an ordinance three weeks ago disposing of tough restrictions on the acceptance of gifts by elected officials in the county’s ethics code.
It got little notice outside the commission’s meeting room at County Hall. But since Dec. 19 – just in time for the gift-giving season – those elected officials need only comply with the more lenient gift law restrictions spelled out in state law…