Posted on 11/02/2018 7:42:44 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Tallahassee Mayor and Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum said he will return to the state's capital city after a shooting there Friday at an area yoga studio.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Over a shooting in Tallahassee? You don’t say! Gollum is doing damage control.
Why hasn’t the shooting been posted on Free Republic?
Maybe Project Veritas has another vid...
Subsumed by speculation about loose yoga pants.
Mayor Andrew Gillum and the Mystery of 311 East Jennings Street
a morass of addresses, interconnections, swaps and deals raising questions about Mayor Gillum’s alliances.
Gillum was elected to the city commission in 2003 and became mayor in 2014; insists he has been told he is not the target of the FBI inquiry.
<><>local businessman J.T. Burnette, a major Gillum backer who in 2014 received $883,000 in city subsidies for developing a downtown hotel. He declined to comment for this story. Burnette, in fact, has become a major political player supporting candidates of both parties – by taking advantage of what’s known as the LLC loophole. Florida is one of several states that allows limited liability corporations – even if they have the same ownership — to contribute as separate individuals, permitting donors to give the maximum amount of $1,000 from each of their subsidiaries.
<><> 52 LLCs list the Jennings Street address, many of which have donated to state and local campaigns. Those businesses include Sunnyland Solar, connected to a city-subsidized liberal-loving clean energy project now under FBI scrutiny. Mayor Gillum voted in 2011 to give Sunnyland Solar up to $5.4 million in subsidies.
<><>The Jennings Street address also houses KaiserKane, a national security contractor with millions of dollars in federal contracts, including multimillion-dollar deals with the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice.
<><>KaiserKane, named in the FBI subpoena, actually bought the Jennings Street property in 2013 for $1.15 million, records show. The building was sold in 2016 to 311 Jennings LLC, a company that lists Burnette’s home as its corporate address. The Jennings building was sold again in March 2017 to the PACE Center for Girls, a Jacksonville-based nonprofit. KaiserKane still uses the address for its Tallahassee office on its website “contact” page. Cynthia Montgomery, a lawyer representing PACE, said her client is the lone occupant of the 12,000-square-foot building. KaiserKane President Melissa Oglesby did not return a call.
<><> Mayor Gillum’s actions have prompted other questions. Until last month, his campaign was operating out of 1550 Melvin, owned by longtime confidante Sharon Lettman-Hicks. It’s the same building he has worked out of in his side gigs, first as director of youth leadership for the advocacy group People for the American Way, then for Lettman-Hicks’ P & P Communications, where Gillum was vice president. Just what he did for P & P, though, is not known. The company has no website, no dedicated phone line and has not formally disclosed its clients.
<><> The building was bought with funding from the Northwest Florida Black Business Investment Corporation, a tax-exempt group that provides investment funding. Two of the investment corporation directors are part of a group that in July received $281,000 in Tallahassee community development money for exclusive rights to a development project in the city.
(hat tip RealClearInvestigations)
He reminds me of the Andy Serkis character in LOTR and just as repulsive.
Hence my name for him.
he had to see if any LEO went too far if they had to go to a weapon, to a gun, to a baton, to a Taser.
No worries, his allies in the media will finish out his campaign for him and crucify DeSantis for NOT taking the weekend off.
Running away from the murder problem in the city he’s running. Reminds me of another mayor who’s also running from the city he’s running, which is the murder capital of the U.S.
Nope! Can’t be associated with the problems they create, so, leave them for the next unfortunate guy. Which reminds me of Obama... who couldn’t fix the problems created by him and democrats, so. let the next guy fix them.... and then, take credit for the good work done by the next guy.
Gay Yoga Pants Lives Matter.
I thought that I did, but evidently I don’t. Thank you for the link.
Thanks.
“Has to be more to this. Leaving the trail the weekend before the election?”
If he doesn’t go back to the city, he would be labeled a political hack who only cares about winning the election. This is his “Spartacus moment”. He can show that he is a leader. He can show he cares about his people. He can whine about the evils of guns and how he would make Florida free of gun violence with a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and rainbow colored unicorns on every corner.
except this is a city HE RUNS.
He could do whiteface to fool white men. Al Roker would approve.
Well, apparently “runs” distantly, like most Mayors for which “Mayor” is just the starting point for higher ambitions.
NEVER elect a Mayor like that. They couldn’t care less about your city. They’re ON THEIR WAY! Woo hoo!
good point. Wasn’t Obama’s occupation before senator, listed as “community organizer”?
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