A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Attorney General found the lighter side of a brutal practice during a recent press conference about undocumented immigrants.
Asked about a cockfighting ring involving illegal immigrants that predecessor Ashley Moody had apparently been looking into, Attorney General James Uthmeier said he was in “month three on the job” and would have to “look into the case.”
“I don’t like the idea of cockfighting in the state,” Uthmeier said. “Especially with egg prices today, I don’t think we need to be supporting that type of activity.”
For what it’s worth, egg prices are reportedly down around 60% since Donald Trump became President.
It’s unclear which cockfighting ring the reporter referred to, but there have been a number of such criminal enterprises broken up in recent years.
Last year in Lake County, an alleged ring was broken up involving dozens of roosters and a scoreboard.
More recently in Miami-Dade, a machete fight led to yet another cockfighting operation getting law enforcement attention.
The state’s Animal Fighting Act regards cockfighting as a serious matter, a third-degree felony.
2 comments
Rick Whitaker
June 3, 2025 at 1:13 pm
Where has Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the squad gone with their egg displays when they were ranting about prices. Even though these increases began under Sleepy Joe. Clueless like him
MH/Duuuval
June 3, 2025 at 7:43 pm
Where’s Suzy Q when she/he/they could be of service?
BTW: Q was bragging last week about how Dee had gotten so many raises for state employees, but not this year: “The budget is also set to include 2 percent raises for the state’s estimated 100,000 employees, even though it wasn’t included in DeSantis’ proposal.” (online coverage of Legislature)
Guess raises for state employees slipped Dee’s mind as he is soooooo busy defending Hope Florida and trying to impose his ideological views on folks.