Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has made it his mission since being appointed to his job last summer to target local governments for alleged “wasteful and excessive spending.”
That’s opened him to criticism that while he’s been quick to get before the cameras to denounce local officials for being poor stewards of the people’s hard-earned taxpayer dollars, he’s been relatively quiet when it comes to questionable spending from state coffers.
Take for instance, a vote by the Cabinet in February that gave nonconservation land on Hillsborough College’s Dale Mabry campus for a potential new ballpark for the Tampa Bay Rays. The team wants to build a stadium at the 113-acre campus, which would include a mixed-use entertainment district and rebuilt campus…