Apparently Credible Ethics Complaint Filed Against HD 2 Candidate Ed Gray

Among the half-dozen candidates to replace the late Rep. Clay Ford for House District 2, perhaps none has been the object of more attacks than Ed Gray, a former mayor of Gulf Breeze. Gray's been accused of everything from shady financial dealings, to soliciting Obama stimulus dollars, to working to raise taxes on Floridians.

Now he's being accused of an ethics violation. And there seems to be something to it.

Attached to this blog post, readers can see for themselves an ethics complaint filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics. The charge? Gray, who sat on the Santa Rosa County School Board until 2010, failed to file a mandatory final financial disclosure form -- Form 6F -- with the Commission after he left that office.

Sunshine State News contacted the Commission, and while they could not speak to the complaint itself, they were able to confirm that they have no Form 6F on file for Gray.

That does not necessarily mean that Gray is guilty of the violation. Investigators could, for example, find that Gray had mitigating excuses for not doing so. But a spokesperson for the Ethics Commission, speaking strictlyhypothetically, told SSN that someone found guilty of not filing the form could receive a civil penalty of up to $10,000.

The House District 2 Republican primary election is on Tuesday, May 14. Early voting ends Saturday, May 11.