Alex Sink, the chief financial officer for the State of Florida and a member of the state’s clemency board, said on Wednesday that she would probably support a push by Gov. Charlie Crist to hand out a posthumous pardon for Jim Morrison, the lead singer for the Doors. The pardon would come 40 years after Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure after a rowdy profanity-laced concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami.
Ms. Sink’s assent would assure that the pardon will go through when it is taken up on Thursday morning. Florida law requires any pardon to be approved by both the governor and two members of the state cabinet. Charles Bronson – the state commissioner of agriculture – has also indicated he would support a pardon.
“I‘m probably going to vote for the pardon,’’ said Ms. Sink, a Democrat. “I reviewed the file, I’ve been listening to the music today on the Web while I was doing my work. I’m inclined to do it.’’
Just a year ago Ms. Sink, who is 62, sheepishly admitted that she did not know who Morrison was. She was a teacher in Africa at the time of Morrison’s death in 1971.
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