DC:
Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum won Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, kicking off a race for the governorship against Republican primary winner, Rep. Ron DeSantis.
Gillum edged out a victory over a field of seven Democrats, taking 34 percent of the vote. DeSantis defeated seven other Republicans to win 56 percent of his party’s vote.
Gillum has served as the mayor of Tallahassee since 2014. The USA Herold referred to his candidacy as the “far-left choice,” and he has been endorsed by Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders. In addition to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, Gillum has called for universal health care and increasing corporate taxes.
The FBI launched an investigation into Tallahassee’s city hall and key government players as early as 2015 as part of an on-going corruption probe. Part of the extensive investigation is targeted at Gillum’s longtime friend and former campaign manager, whose restaurant received tax money.
“We expect the city to respond fully and completely to the subpoena and we hope the situation is resolved quickly,” Gillum’s campaign spokesman told The Tallahassee Democrat after city officials received a new round of subpoeans.
Gillum also previously came under fire after failing to disclose more than $400,000 in mortgage debts on his financial disclosure forms. more
This Bernie-bro was under Hillary’s chicken wing and has learned to cheat and embezzle from the master. HTF did he get this far with the raging scandal in Tallahassee? I mean, even for a Dem?
Oh shucks. That’s nothing. We just elected a former democrat, running as a republican, who sued DJT over the travel ban, for AG.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m ecstatic we moved Rick Scott and DeSantis into position, but there’s some hanky panky going on and it’s only going to get worse. We have to get ppl out in Nov.
Soros has been putting a lot of dough in AG races and he got his pick for the R side last night.
So what if Gillum is under investigation. It perfectly acceptable to the dems if it’s one of theirs.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the November general election here in Florida. Democrats I know are not enthusiastic about Gillum (too far left for them), nor Nelson who has made some comments recently that make him appear to be actually as stupid as he really is (hard as that is to imagine). It’s a small sample size that I have right now but, to repeat, it is reason for cautious optimism.
I’m particularly glad that my state Senator Greg Steube will be the rep candidate for U.S. House. He has been a good guy, or at least a better-then-most guy so far.
May EVERY Republican candidate have such an “opponent” this November!
Florida has been a Republican state but the northeners have been coming here and mucking things up real bad, in this past few decades the Orlando area is now a Dem stronghold most of the elected city is Democrat.Tennessee is looking better every election with me.
Pretty much par for a dem candidate.
Dems had double the turnout from 4 Year ago….
@Gotnohome
I was shocked at the difference a few Years make. We stay in
Kissimmee and attend Auctions in Wintergarden….
2010 Was nice and clean and the Hotel was $26 a Night.
Went back in 2012 and the same Hotel was $50 and full of Pakistani
moslems….and Dirty as hell.
Right now, they’re freaking out on CNN, because De Santis said, “Don’t monkey this up by electing Gillum”.
I guess this will dominate the next three news cycles.
“Gillum also previously came under fire after failing to disclose more than $400,000 in mortgage debts on his financial disclosure forms.”
Golly, Gollum is in deeper debt than Georgia Dem Gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams. But not by much.
Hey Thirdtwin, DeSantis also said “that dog won’t hunt” in an unrelated context.
I guarantee THAT will get play on CNN.
Can you say DOG WHISTLE!
OMG!
Whoa – hang on a minute. How can they conduct an investigation against Gillum. Don’t they know he’s black?
Scammers and thieves can always find supporters because they want ‘their fair share of the loot’ and they’ll make a saint out the guy to be in on the take.
For example – from beyond the grave the gentle giant Big Mike Brown is still shaking down the owner of the store in Furgeson, Mo. that he robbed before he decided to assault a town cop & fight global warming by assuming room temperature.
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/08/27/protesters-try-extort-store-robbed-michael-brown-prior-ferguson-shooting/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=&profileid= .
The Bernie candidate wants to raise corporate by 40% in FLorida! Does he think that corporations cannot flee the state?
Porch monkey………..racist dog whistle.
If anyone can lose a slam dunk race, it’s the Stupid Party.
For example, in the afterglow of a strong win where the POTUS supported you asking that the public not “monkey around” by electing the black guy.
Fucking moron move. Stupid Party in spades.
TN is not a slam dunk either. Marsha Blackburn needs a software update so that her sound bytes are relevant to the human population. Bleep-bloop.
Now attacking Desantis as racist for comment about not monkeying things up.
🐒 means racism.
Gotta keep saying it, blackburn is a horse abusing cunt.
Years ago, Tallahassee had a figurehead mayor position where the city commissioners rotated and served a year.
Rot: Ads like this don’t help anyway.
https://youtu.be/wxSPO4V7FYI
https://youtu.be/qALugbpEtnY
Wooden. Rambling. Long. Pointless. Speaks conservativism as a second language. I hate Bredesen but she is about as inspiring as a fentanyl enema. For someone who has been in congress for 20 years, she has no charisma.
Cliche,
Desantis reference to monkeying around was NOT racist.
Marsha Blackburn is still hot in her 60s and will be a great Senator.
Local Tallahassee paper (Tallahassee Democrat) link
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/29/andrew-gillum-florida-dems-call-ron-desantis-fox-news-remarks-racist/1132039002/
Note how fag Sheppy Smith immediately joins the attack.