Tristan Wood
Tallahassee City Commissioner Jack Porter incorrectly labeled her occupation in donations she made to fellow Commissioner Jeremy Matlow over the past year.
For the seven donations and $682 she gave to Matlow from March 2021 to February 2022, she reported that she worked as a legal assistant. She did not include any job besides being a City Commissioner in her last financial disclosure report.
Porter told Florida Politics she does not work as a legal assistant, and the filing was an error when she made the donations using the Democrat-aligned donation platform ActBlue.
ActBlue allows users to make an “ActBlue Express” account, which saves their card information, employment title, address and other information to allow them to make donations quickly. The information uses the info automatically without notifying users that it is doing so after a box is clicked while signing up. Porter said a clerical error — failing to change her pre-filled-in employment title from past donations — resulted in the mistake.
Porter had previously worked as a legal assistant in Tallahassee from October 2015 to August 2017 before she was a Commissioner. During that time, she made several state and federal donations using the legal assistant occupation title. If she did not change her occupation on her account or manually change it for the specific donation, then it would have been listed on her Matlow donations without notifying her.
Porter told Florida Politics that the error will be revised.
