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An Orange County judge today dismissed a charge of breaking the state's public meeting laws against former state representative-turned-lobbyist Chris Dorworth.

Judge Tanya Davis Wilson, who was set to start jury selection Thursday, ruled that Dorworth's First Amendment rights to free speech was violated by the misdemeanor charge against him.

"A private citizen has a protected constitutional right to communicate with public officials or members of a public body about matters that may come before that body," Wilson wrote.

Dorworth's attorney, Richard Hornsby of Orlando, said, "I'm pleased. I thought this was a flawed prosecution from the beginning."

Chief Assistant State Attorney Richard Wallsh said his office would issue a reaction later this afternoon.

Dorworth was accused of acting as a go-between, or conduit, between two former members of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority in a plot to oust then-director Max Crumit.

According to the state's so-called "Government in the Sunshine" laws, authority business could be discussed only in public, such as a board meeting, and not in private. Conviction of the misdemeanor is punishable by a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail.

Dorworth, according to an Orange County grand jury indictment, passed information between Scott Batterson and Marco Pena, who were on the board and were part of a 3-2 vote in August 2013 to seek a replacement for Crumit.

Pena earlier this year pleaded guilty to breaking the sunshine law and paid a $500 fine. Batterson last week pleaded no contest to the same charge.

Hornsby said the proper people to go after were Pena and Batterson, not Dorworth.

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SAN FRANCISCO In this midterm election season, it may not be good to be a Democrat but it is very good to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The presumptive Democratic front-runner for 2016 is among her partys best assets to raise money and energize voters amid a gloomy election landscape for Democrats this fall, and she is campaigning hard even on behalf of apparent lost causes.

As a pair of events this week in California illustrated, Clintons efforts to raise money and get out the vote for Democratic congressional and gubernatorial candidates often dovetail with her own political agenda. Her first political season after stepping down as secretary of state has combined political boosterism for Democrats including in key presidential states with high-dollar fundraising and lucrative paid speeches.

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This is our chance -- our chance to elect Democrats who are fighting to jump-start the middle class, Clinton said at a $1.4 million Democratic fund-raising luncheon here Monday. Our chance to elect Democrats who are working for better jobs, better wages, for an economy that works for everybody.

Were in the home stretch, she continued, and it all comes down to who shows up.

After President Obama and other Democrats worked hard to avert financial disaster and begin rebuilding the U.S. economy after 2008, it is truly regrettable [that] we are having to work so hard to elect and reelect Democrats, Clinton said.

Its as though the other side wants to cast an air of amnesia, over the 2014 midterms, she said, warming to the theme.

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You never know what can happen in an election. You cant take anything for granted. You just have to get out there and work. I dont think any of us want to wake up the day after the election and wish we had done more, she said.

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