Comments on: Putnam Draws Fire After Background Checks Report

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:45:12 +0000

If a person is considered too dangerous to be allowed to purchase a firearm, then why are they out walking around among us?

End background checks, increase execution for murderers and rapists violent criminals.

By: useyourmind

useyourmind — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:54:17 +0000

This is just more political drama by the dems. Putnam fixed the mistake, it was a bad employee, the guy was terminated. Unlike dem heroes who give their bad employees promotions and lavish trips abroad and deny, deny, deny. Keep it up, though. People are waking up to the nonsense and the DNC’s histrionics will bury it into the lockers of history.

By: Chelleepea

Chelleepea — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 22:17:59 +0000

The issue is Mr Putnam is running for office and he is responsible for what went on at the department. A year without background checks is a pretty big deal whether you like background checks or not it’s the current law. That means that there were no oversight. Yes eventually the problem was fixed but a year is too long. Since most of us don’t know Mr. Putnam personally, what happened and didn’t happened at the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is part of his resume.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:25:55 +0000

Uh, good friends who worked in Tallahassee at Fl Dept of Agriculture said that from day one in the job as Agriculture Commissioner that Putnam was making it very clear his goal was to become Governor of Fla and he expected every employee to be with him on that path.
Not a real fan of his but the fact that there was Only ONE employee doing Federal Gun Checks (?) that whole thing seems Crazy with the number of Concealed Weapon Licenses that come thru the office.
If anything positive comes of this it should be that the individual County Tax Collector offices be authorized to do the background checks and issue the Concealed Weapon Licenses. Would put accountability on the County and relieve the huge number of requests at the state level. Once a County has approved or rejected an individual that information would become part of the State/Federal database.

By: Henry Coe

Henry Coe — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:14:34 +0000

Let that failure go on for a year from his lack of oversight, yes that very incompetent. It would be interesting to hear more about the employee who did his/her job in whistle blowing on the slacker.

By: G

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:50:25 +0000

He who has not sinned, cast the first stone. Liberal Dem’s are always the first to throw stones and the last to take responsibility for their actions. Mr. Putnam may not be qualified for the office he seeks, but neither are most of the candidates, especially the ones that don’t take responsibility for their actions. It would be nice to see everyday people have a reunion with common sense and allow it to dictate their decision making, instead of political motivation.

By: A. Alex

A. Alex — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:22:43 +0000

Explain to me what Putnam did wrong , he corrected the mistake. Of the EMPLOYEE

By: Grand Locust

Grand Locust — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:15:47 +0000

The buck stops on the desk of the department head. Where were the protocols to double check every application with a second review of the FBI data. Based on the high number of people upon review who lost their conceal and carry, one has to question if there was not a financial motive to not conduct those background checks. This does not seem like an innocent mistake, and not having proper procedures in the office for second review is unbelievable in 2018.

By: Willie Billups

Willie Billups — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:39:14 +0000

I’m voting for Putnam. He is perfectly qualified. The democrats DONT want him in office so that is exactly who I will vote for! I am 45 years old and a BLACK man. I also voted for Trump. What the Democrat party doesn’t understand is that they are losing votes because everyone can see right through their nonsense and taking the wrong side on many issues. They look like bafoons on TV (CNN. MSNBC, ABC). They have distanced themselves so far from the working man it’s obvious. I used to be a blue dog democrat but have realized they are a big joke.

By: Michelle Henderson

Michelle Henderson — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:31:25 +0000

This is just a political game by Democrats. You see how Brigham knows the employee was promoted and still refers to the employee as a “mailroom” employee. Just by her referencing the employee to their prior job title knowing the employee got promoted shows that she ignores facts and just wants to blow a small situation to something larger only because he is running for office.

If he wasn’t running for office this would be a non issue LOL