.
@GovRonDeSantis
tells
@glennbeck
to expect the Florida State Board of Administration to enact an anti-ESG rule at its next meeting day ... 8/23. Legislative action will follow next Session.
"It's going to make a big splash."
Does the Supreme Court ruling in the Alabama Congressional redistricting case mean that Florida's gerrymandered map could be vulnerable?
Why the DeSantis-mander is ripe for a legal challenge ... new column,
@JAXTDY
St. Augustine woman receives $36,000 homeowners insurance bill
"Ludicrous" is how Susan Gregory describes a bill she received from the new insurance company Slide for her
#homeowners
#insurance
renewal after UPC went
#insolvent
earlier this year.
@FCN2go
#Florida
Why are so many afraid of “woke” anything? Are we too weak to deal with the racism of the past? Own it! Too afraid for our kids to be exposed to “dangerous” ideas in school books? Americans are tough! We need to build strong, thoughtful and self-reliant citizens.
Former
@UCF_Football
,
@Jaguars
, and
@NFL
QB Blake Bortles raised thousands of dollars today at his
@BB5Foundation
Golf Tournament in Lake Mary.
He tells us he's still looking for a job in the league, ideally somewhere he can be the backup.
Every last one of Florida's confederate monuments was created during Jim Crow to reinforce segregation and mythologize slavery as something noble and beneficial.
BREAKING: Florida Legislature will wait on
@GovRonDeSantis
to produce a Congressional reapportionment map for them to vote on during next week's Special Session.
Strong ratings in Jacksonville for the Daytona 500. Equivalent to what we see for some NFL regular season game not involving Jaguars. We likely will be high above national average for the race.
@ActionSportsJax
@ActionNewsJax
@ESPN690Jax
The line of cars extends for more than a mile from San Sebastian View, down US-1, wrapped around Lewis Speedway Rd almost down to Horseshoe Rd North. People camped out overnight to get the coveted shot. If you do come here – there is a risk you won’t get the vaccine today.
@wjxt4
I am off work this afternoon — back tomorrow — but looks like
@GovRonDeSantis
still doesn’t have an answer for Florida’s property insurance issues based on
@NikkiFried
statement. Three years to slow the rate hikes, maybe?
Perhaps the biggest news to some of my followers, covered herein:
@MelissainJax
is leaving
@WJCTJax
for a role in the
@DonnaDeegan
administration. First Coast Connect has been one of the most impressive shows and runs in local media history.
@ChristinaPushaw
@greg_price11
Show me a major city with raging crime & I’ll show you a city run by Dems. The ghastly bloody crime wave sinking our nation is *solely* caused by Democrats war on police & prisons. Biden is campaigning for John Fetterman who is obsessed with freeing MURDERERS. Dems are PRO-CRIME.
Are you telling me the Duval County School Board dumped their long-serving Superintendent with no plan going forward?
And now they're finding they can't get anyone but D-Listers to come here since they created a presumption of bad faith and employment insecurity
On brand.
Anyone who has lived in Florida for any length of time knows there has been a recurrent neo-Nazi problem for decades, and knows they typically surface when they feel emboldened. For example, in Jax in the 1990s, they were a presence at the alt-rock clubs until they were ran off.
"Randy Fine has taken over $20K from Disney in political contributions. This woke money he has not returned," says
@annaforflorida
. "If you want to talk about free markets, I'm your girl...Florida Republicans want Disney to get back in line, continue donating to their coffers."
Remember when so-called public health experts said it was ok to have mass gatherings if you join the BLM protests but that it was not ok to protest lockdowns?
This “critique” works both ways. How many times have we heard about BLM “riots” over the years from this Governor? Those protests were 3 yrs ago. This was a Nazi rally today. Why would they have
@RonDeSantis
sign? Why wouldn’t
@FloridaGOP
repudiate that strongly? It’s not hard.
There is no reason anyone needs to comment each time a crazy group does something. It’s pretty amazing to me why this becomes an issue (and why some people give these people more attention than they deserve)
Ron DeSantis: "It is wrong to teach a second grader that they may have been born in the wrong body, it is wrong to teach students that gender is a choice."
MORE:
"The energy around me running for Governor is 100% organic and built from the ground up."
Gov. Eskamani? Current state representative
@AnnaforFlorida
not ruling it out
#FlaPol
Ponte Vedra is NOT 'in Jacksonville.'
Those people are in Ponte Vedra BECAUSE they don't want to be in Jacksonville, so properly represent them as being in St Johns County.
BREAKING: Democrat Tom Keen has won the special election for Florida's 35th State House District. (Biden +5 in 2020 and DeSantis +11 in 2022)
🔴 GOP ➡️ 🔵 DEM FLIP
I'll bite -- why is the Florida Department of Corrections campaigning for DeSantis? And why did they miss the opportunity to have prisoners door-knocking for Never Back Down??
Currently
@Jaguars
players and staff on steps of Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Players have taken stances before but this unprecedented moment has taken those stances to another level. Emotional speeches.
Absolutely needs to be a bill this Legislative Session requiring
@GovRonDeSantis
Florida State Guard be deployed to respond to these demonstrations because local law enforcement agencies seem unable to discourage this.
A group of about 15 people wearing clothing and bearing flags emblazoned with Nazi insignia demonstrated outside the entrance to the Disney Springs shopping center, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Confederate Monument removal. End of overpolicing of young African American men. Push for CRB. Release footage of officer involved shootings. MJ decrim. That’s change people can believe in. Change people have petitioned for for a long time.
Peace and reconciliation will require us to listen and open our hearts. The road is long. I am grateful for the voices of change. Change is coming. Peace and grace.
Worth noting that Biden didn't invent the designation. March 31 has been Transgender Day of Visibility since 2009. Easter just happens to fall on that day this year.
Lots of angry reaction today by
@FloridaGOP
electeds & other conservatives over
@JoeBiden
declaring “Transgender Day of Visibility” on the same day as Easter Sunday.
Just 1 example:
@VoteRandyFine
called Democrats “DemonRats.”
BREAKING: The Florida Secretary of State’s Wife
@estherbyrdf
, the wife of
@CordByrd
(who was hand selected by
@RonDeSantis
) just lost her election this morning to become President of the Florida Federation of Republican women (FFRW). This comes after she began bad mouthing…
Symbols matter. They tell the world what we stand for and what we aspire to be. By removing the confederate monument from Springfield Park, we signal a belief in our shared humanity. That we are all created equal. The same flesh and bones. The same blood running through our…
In delivering her speech slamming Florida educational standards in Jacksonville,
@VP
@KamalaHarris
exposed and took advantage of the political weakness of absent
@GovRonDeSantis
. New column in
@JAXTDY
Said goodbye to Lambert last night. She was a bundle of light to the end, transcending physical limitations and medical issues and losing her bonded partner, still finding a way to find joy every day. Rest in power sweet girl.
Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis launched her nationwide Mamas for DeSantis initiative Thursday with a video making the case that her husband, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, will "do for America what he did for us in Florida."
Stunning moment: At a town hall in Berlin, N.H., Nikki Haley was asked by a voter what was the cause of the Civil War. She said the war was about government interfering in people’s freedoms. The voter then called her out for not mentioning slavery.
One good thing about
@GOPconvention
coming to Jacksonville is that a dozen solid local reporters will get introduced to a national platform, print and radio/tv alike. National media trying to understand Jacksonville should utilize local subject matter experts.
#jaxpol
#FlaPol
Great being back at K's Hamburger Shop in my hometown of Troy, OH…
K’s opened in 1935 and has served my parents, grandparents and even my great grandparents.
It was special to have
@RonDeSantisFL
and the kids join me to continue the tradition!
Denise Lee was one of the most interesting and most quintessentially Jacksonville people in local politics. Had a lot of good chats with her over the years. Her legacy should not be forgotten. RIP.
There is an unspoken double standard in terms of tone for male and female candidates in Jacksonville politics, and that’s going to be exploited by the GOP through May 16.
More than half of Jacksonville's city pools are closed due to maintenance issues or lifeguard shortages.
@cheyennecoletv
reports on
@fcn2go
starting at 5
Kind of like how Jacksonville can have a Democratic plurality yet 5/7 of its House seats are drawn to ensure a Republican winner! It’s one of those “because we can” situations, huh?
What we learned today is that you can go undefeated and win your conference championship game, but the College Football Playoff committee will ignore these results.
Congratulations to
@FSUFootball
on an outstanding season and winning the ACC championship!
Most of us who live in Jax would advise strongly against being face down on the carpet anywhere in any of our public libraries for any length of time. Not sure how it is elsewhere, but that image definitely struck a chord here.
🚨Remember the viral photo of the woman on the floor of the Jacksonville treatment site?
@wjxt4
talked to her. Good news, she is fine now! She said staff was excellent & “scrambled to get wheelchairs,” Regeneron worked & she feels better already. Read beyond clickbait headlines🚨
“Parscale lost big battles inside the campaign recently, including a failed effort with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to keep Trump loyalist Susie Wiles off the campaign.”
Whether we do it tomorrow or in 2 years, we MUST balance the budget.
I’m fighting to get this country on a path to fiscal sanity so our children and grandchildren aren’t paying the price.
It's just like the swamp to take YOUR money, borrow more, and push it all into reckless political pet projects. That’s earmarks in a nutshell.
Just look at
@SenSchumer
's request for $1M to build a new environmental justice center in NYC. Give me a break.
As someone who lived here in 2010 and remembers and covered
@SenRickScott
laser like focus on job creation for eight years I never thought I’d hear people close to a sitting Governor mocking 2000 high paying jobs as essentially not mattering. And yet that is the argument.
Also those “2000 jobs” wouldn’t be for Floridians. They would be Californians relocated to Florida, to drive up rents, increase traffic, put more stress on the ecosystem, and vote for the same type of insane libs that ruined their home state (which is also my home state).
Confirming this. I'll be filling in 6/20 through 6/23 and 7/5-7/7.
"Florida Politics Northeast Florida correspondent and WJCT JAXTDY contributor A.G. Gancarski, freelance multimedia host Catalina Selvagn and WJCT News reporter Dan Scanlan have been booked as interim hosts...."
The longtime host of
@WJCTNews
“First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross” says she’s “on board with Mayor-elect Deegan’s vision for the city of Jacksonville.”
Reaction to bill from
@CityofJax
@MayorDeegan
: "This bill would be just another slap in the face to our Black community, which has already endured so much. It’s also an unconstitutional overreach that is the latest example of home rule being stripped away from Florida cities."
Personal note: mom is returning home today from hospital/physical therapy. Thanks to all those who have offered help/prayers/thoughts. I’m in St Aug today, so hopefully the mayoral campaign stays quiet.
There is no way Ben Franklin could get through a Republican Primary for a Florida House seat. Not in this day and age. They'd call him Woke Ben Franklin in the mailers, use that picture of him in the thunderstorm with the kite, and that would be the end.
"At the end of the day, my job is to be a QB and lead this team. I can only do so much.
"I have faith we're going to come out in a way better spot next year than this year"
--
#Jaguars
' Trevor Lawrence
Read the room. How much positive feedback do you get from people who actually live here in Jax? It's not because you're "conservative." It's because you're disingenuous and ultimately toxic.
If I'm a Democrat in Florida, I'm issuing a statement in favor of this right about now, as weed will outperform their statewide candidate this year by at least 10 points.