Spano Trudges Back to D.C. After Summer of Scandals, Gaffes and Misery

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Spano spent summer getting protested, pretending he wasn’t overseas, campaigning in the wrong district, facing lingering questions over his campaign finance scandal and triggering new questions about his self-serving corruption

Odds are you had a better summer than scandal-plagued Congressman Ross Spano.

Congressman Spano returns to Washington this week after an in-district work period that didn’t exactly see much of the embattled congressman in his district.

Surely, Ross would like to forget much of it. Unfortunately for him, we didn’t!

The lowlights:

Spano was hit by two new complaints with the FEC and Office of Congressional Ethics.
On the day he opened his new Hillsborough County office, Spano was met by a group of constituents protesting him over his scandals and self-serving corruption.
Later, Spano’s constituents delivered “Global Warming for Dummies” textbooks to Spano’s office after he earned national mockery for denying the existence of human-caused climate change.
Spano pretended to be on a multi–day “small business” tour of the district on days that Ethics Committee documents revealed he was actually overseas.
Spano’s lone “town hall” event was held on the Friday night before Labor Day weekend as Hurricane Dorian approached Florida.
And of course, there was the fine August day Congressman Spano campaigned in the wrong district, tweeting a picture from Florida’s 14th Congressional District with a “#FL15” hashtag.