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Not a loophole - it is currently used by thousands of state employees.
'''Janet Holley''' (b. [[1951]]) is the current [[Escambia County Tax Collector|Tax Collector]] for [[Escambia County]]. She joined the tax collector's office in [[1973]] and became office manager in [[1991]]. Following the death of [[Matt Langley Bell III]], Governor [[Wikipedia:Lawton Chiles|Lawton Chiles]] appointed Holley as the county's first female tax collector on [[October 21]], [[1998]]. She was elected to the position in [[2000]] and again (unopposed) in [[2004]].
In late 2008, Holley took advantage of a loophole in the Florida retirement law state employee DROP program that will allow her to "retire" for one month from her recently re-elected position as of Nov 30th, 2008, then return on Jan 6th, 2009 at her full pay of 132,000 USD a year as well as an additional 80,000 USD per year in retirement benefits. This program allows an employee to draw from a pension that has already been earned, while allowing the state to keep its most experienced employee in place. Even if this program did not exist, the state would still be paying the exact same amount of monies to two people - one towards the salary of the employee, and another to an employee's retirement.
==Electoral history==
