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Jadell Kerr, a regulator with the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission, has been suspended for two weeks from her six-figure job with the county due to comments she made on local blog Sticks of Fire. Tommy notes it here.

She said, of the county commission’s action to shift wetlands regulation from the county to the state, that : It was obvious to me and by all the emails, obvious to you, that the whole thing was rigged.

She’s got her First Amendment right to protest, of course, and I’m sure she’ll find herself a lawyer to handle that. Still, the accusations of “rigging” seem to come dangerously close to slander. I’m not surprised they took action on that. I’ll be interested to see how that works itself out.