Florida Construction Company Owner And GOP FL Rep Sponsored 2010 Bill Repealing Law On Condo Repairs

[TexasTowelie]

Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports:

Late last year, after years of delays and disputes, the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association began a desperate search for $16.2 million to fix major structural damage that was slowly threatening the Surfside high-rise — and that may have contributed to the building’s partial collapse June 24. “If the owners would have had a reserve study, if the board was proactive and had funded its reserves, this never would have happened,” said Julio Robaina, a former Republican state legislator.

Robaina sponsored a 2008 law requiring condo associations to hire engineers or architects to submit reports every five years about how much it would cost to keep up with repairs. The law lasted just two years before it was repealed in 2010, after Robaina left office. The legislator who sponsored the repeal, former state Rep. Gary Aubuchon, a Republican real estate broker and homebuilder, did not reply to messages seeking comment.

Read the full article. Aubuchon left the Florida House in 2013. According to Wikipedia, his home construction firm had faced controversy over using Chinese drywall that was susceptible to mold. Aubuchon ran unsuccessfully for the US House in 2012. Campaign clip below.

https://www.joemygod.com/2021/07/florida-construction-company-owner-and-gop-rep-sponsored-2010-bill-repealing-law-on-condo-repairs/
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[Baitball Blogger]

1. That sad story of Florida.

Too many in the construction, development and real estate fields rise into power, and undermine regulations that can protect people.

[BlueJac]

2. Florida in a nutshell!

I suspected deregulation was to blame for this disaster! The good old boys!

[hibbing]

3. He should run for Senate n/t

[Susan Calvin]

4. Then he is a killer. nt

[keithbvadu2]

5. The old Code - of Hammurabi

The old Code - of Hammurabi

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5181e80b-f307-42e6-a357-c2d081b678ff

229 If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230 If it kills the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231 If it kills a slave of the owner, then he shall pay, slave for slave, to the owner of the house.

232 If it ruins goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233 If a builder builds a house for someone, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. +1!!! n/t

[ananda]

6. Corruption and death thy name is Republican.

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[Jose Garcia]

7. Crist signed the bill. Desantis is going to have a field day with this