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Orlando Sentinel Logo SUBSCRIBE POLITICS NEWS Andrew Gillum’s $5,000 settlement accepted by state ethics panel ORLANDO SENTINEL | JUN 07, 2019 | 11:25 AM Andrew Gillum’s $5,000 settlement accepted by state ethics panel Andrew Gillum, Forward Florida Chair, speaks during an Elections Subcommittee field hearing on 'Voting Rights and Election Administration in Florida' at the Broward County Governmental Center on May 06, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale. (Joe Raedle/Getty) TALLAHASSEE - A state ethics panel Friday approved a $5,000 fine for former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum despite some concerns a settlement wasn’t tough enough or that he has claimed vindication...

“If you’re trying to win Florida, I would be courting Andrew and that’s what’s happening,” a source familiar with the conversations said. ....candidates often keep a running list of influential individuals who they will informally call for ideas, advice, and, perhaps, to scope them out as a potential running mate. And for several candidates, including at least one in the top tier, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum is on speed dial. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), in particular, has been in contact with Gillum over the past several months... ....When reached for comment about the vice presidential buzz, a Warren campaign...

Democrat Andrew Gillum, who ran for Governor in Florida, and is now a CNN political pundit, was involved in a crystal meth overdose incident last night in a Miami hotel room with two other men.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Former Democratic candidate for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum, was involved in a suspected crystal meth incident early Friday morning in Miami Beach, authorities confirmed. According to a police report, Miami Beach Fire Rescue crews were called to a hotel at 1100 West Avenue shortly before 1 a.m. regarding a suspected drug overdose. Authorities said Gillum, 40, and two other men were inside the hotel room at the time. According to the report, one of the men, Aldo Mejias, 56, told officers that he gave Travis Dyson, 30, his credit card information to rent a hotel room...

Former Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was allegedly involved in a hotel drug “orgy” that resulted in an overdose. Law enforcement responded to the location following reports of an overdose where Gillum and two other men were intoxicated by methamphetamines and possibly other controlled substances. The news, broken by conservative pundit Candace Owens, included a police report that shows Gillum was inebriated in the hotel room when police arrived. Three plastic bags contained what police believed to be crystal meth.

According to the police report, the man who overdosed was Travis Dyson, a known male escort in the Miami area. A third man, Aldo Mejas, entered the hotel room to find Dyson overdosing and Gillum vomiting. “Mr. Mejas arrived at the hotel at approximately [11:07pm] where he discovered Travis Dyson and Andrew Gillum inside the hotel room under the influence of an unknown substance. Per Mr. Mejas, Dyson opened the hotel room door and immediately walked over to the bed and collapsed in a prone position,” the report read. “Mr. Mejas observed Mr. Gillum inside of the bathroom vomiting.” After...

Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) was allegedly involved in a suspected crystal meth incident on Friday morning at a Miami Beach hotel, according to a local police report. The Miami Beach Police Department report states officers found Gillum inside a West Avenue hotel room with two other men shortly before 1:00 a.m., where first responders were providing medical attention to one of the individuals for a possible drug overdose. “Mr. Gillum was unable to communicate with officers due to his inebriated state,” according to the report.

Andrew Gillum, who in 2018 came within 34,000 votes of becoming Florida’s governor, was discovered by police at a South Beach hotel early Friday morning in a room with bags of possible methamphetamine and in the company of a man who appeared to have overdosed on drugs, according to a Miami Beach police report. Police say they were called to the Mondrian South Beach early Friday morning and found paramedics treating Travis Dyson, a 30-year-old Miami man, for an apparent heart attack. They say two other men were in the room: Aldo Mejias and Gillum. Police say Gillum, who was...

The Miami Beach problem has nothing whatever to do with sea level rise. It is a civil engineering problem of almost unimaginable magnitude Contrary to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) statement that it is ‘very likely’ sea level rise is accelerating, the highest quality coastal tide gauges from around the world show no evidence of acceleration since the 1920s. Local and regional sea levels continue to exhibit typical natural variability, unrelated to changes in the global average sea level say a number of recent reports. A new policy brief from The Heartland Institute shows there is no...

Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade is nearing his retirement from the NBA, but he just made an all-star move as a dad. The guard voiced solidarity with his 11-year-old son Zion, who attended the Miami Beach Pride parade on Sunday. “We support each other with Pride!” Wade wrote in an Instagram story, accompanied by a photo of the lad and his stepmom, actress Gabrielle Union. Wade noted in another image that Zion, posing with family and friends, had his own cheering section. “Wish I was there to see you smile kid!” he wrote with a rainbow flag emoji.

VIDEO The Democrats are now down to three cities as possible 2020 convention sites. Houston, Milwaukee, and Miami Beach. It sounds like Houston is now out of the running but, unfortunately, the conventional wisdom now leans towards Milwaukee. Big mistake as I point out in this video. If Miami arena is chosen as the convention site (with most of the delegates staying in nearby Miami Beach), your humble correspondent would have the ability to LIVESTREAM the lunacy surrounding the Democrat convention next year. Oh, and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to the DUmmie FUnnies channel because I need 1000 subscribers to...

The City of Miami Beach in Florida is so annoyed by the army of spring breakers descending on its beaches for wild parties fueled by alcohol and drugs that it’s considering a drastic, if a little bizarre, countermeasure. One elected city official suggested playing classical music, such as Mozart, at loud volumes to break up parties on the beach. That's according to a report in The Miami Herald, which said the city's commissioners were juggling ideas on how to tackle spring break partygoers after a chaotic weekend.

Miami Beach city officials have revoked the business license for a nightclub after a woman brought a horse onto a crowded dance floor, Wednesday. Video posted on social media by Miami Beach Police Friday morning shows a scantily clad woman riding a white horse inside the Mokai Lounge, located at 235 23rd St. People were standing around before the horse became startled. The horse bucked, causing the woman to fall off. This was supposed to be the night’s entertainment, but speaking with reporters on Friday, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber had a less flattering take on the spectacle. “Insane stupidity,”...

After crashing her BMW into several cars at high speed, college student Cariann Hithon sat behind the wheel as a noisy crowd gathered around her. Onlookers filming on their smartphones yelled for her to get out of the damaged car. Somebody hollered: “She drunk as sh*t.” Uniformed Miami Beach police officers walked up. For a brief few seconds, it appeared nothing more than a routine, if harrowing, car accident on South Beach.

The morning after they found the Jeep Cherokee believed to be the getaway vehicle in Sunday’s murder of a New York tourist, Miami Beach police descended on a Brickell-area condominium and took several people into custody. At least two men were being held and questioned at Miami Beach police headquarters Tuesday afternoon in the early Sunday morning shooting death of Lavon Walker, a reformed Brooklyn gang member turned anti-violence activist who was vacationing in Miami Beach.

In addition to bottles of hot sauce, ketchup and sparkling water and several glasses, a circular table for two had a cone under it and a cone atop it. Behind the table, a bullet put a hole and a web of cracks in a sliding glass door. Police say they are looking for three men in a newer model Jeep Grand Cherokee with tinted windows. The name of the victim was not released because his family was still being notified.

A Los Angeles man who was attacked and placed in a submission hold inside Miami Beach's Burger King Whopper Bar last month is speaking out about what happened. The incident was caught on camera and police are.... ...He said he was targeted because he's gay. "It was just a simple kiss with my boyfriend," Schaeffer explained. "Then right after that kiss, I started walking over and....

The oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries, and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported Monday. They added that the flooding that is starting to make life miserable in many coastal towns - like Miami Beach; Norfolk, Va.; and Charleston, S.C. - was largely a consequence of those emissions, and that it is likely to grow worse in coming years. The ocean could rise as much as three or four feet by 2100, as ocean water expands and the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica begin to collapse. Experts...

A section of Art Basel Miami Beach was transformed into a crime scene after a fight escalated to a stabbing at the show’s main event inside the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday night, police said. A woman pulled an X-Acto knife and stabbed another woman in the arms and neck, said Miami Beach police spokeswoman Det. Kathleen Prieto. “The injuries are non life-threatening,” Prieto said. The victim was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital; the assailant, whom police did not identify, was arrested at the scene. Both women were patrons of the art show, not exhibitors. Some patrons thought the...

Sheesh! Must every news story include a leftwing agenda? Yahoo! News published an article by Diego Urrdaneta of AFP about the 100th anniversary of Miami Beach. However, Urrdaneta could not restrain himself from merely including facts about the anniversary of Miami Beach. He had to leave us with the swan song about how global warming (or "climate change" as they now call it when the warming didn't happen) is causing the sea level to rise. Here is the first part of the story before it descends into global warming demagoguery: