Tag: Andrew Gillum

Drew WilsonAugust 13, 2018
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Nearly a month after he fatally shot Markeis McGlockton, Michael Drejka was arrested and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Monday afternoon on charges of manslaughter. Drejka, 47, last month started an argument with the 28-year-old McGlockton’s girlfriend, Britany Jacobs, over her use of a handicapped spot in a convenience store parking lot. Upon exiting the […]

Scott PowersAugust 10, 2018
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is unloading the entire progressive Democrats’ playbook into a new 30-second ad that blows through issues from Medicare for all to seeking impeachment of President Donald Trump, as the Tallahassee Mayor seeks a stretch-run kick toward the primary. The ad, which is launching on the internet but which the campaign says will […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 10, 2018
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Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum was asked questions in Thursday night’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate town hall that no other candidate was asked. He was asked, in a question about being endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, whether he considered himself a Democratic socialist. And he was asked whether he was a socialist or capitalist. And he was also asked whether […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2018
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With under three weeks to go in the Democratic race for Governor, former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham leads in most polls against her four opponents going into a televised Thursday forum in Jacksonville. It was incumbent upon former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, West Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, and Winter Park businessman Chris King to make their cases to […]

Scott PowersAugust 9, 2018
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham has secured the endorsement of Palm Beach County Mayor Melissa McKinlay in the closing weeks before the Aug. 28 primary, her campaign announced Thursday. McKinlay’s endorsement is a grab from the home of Graham’s rival Democratic candidate Palm Beach businessman Jeff Greene, with whom Graham has been trading nasty shots in […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2018
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Despite the best efforts of four opponents, Gwen Graham goes into a televised forum Thursday evening in Jacksonville looking like the Democratic nominee for Governor. The trend lines nationally point to a Graham win, another entrant to what is called in some quarters a sisterhood of gubernatorial nominees, in what seems like a year favorable to women […]

Scott PowersAugust 8, 2018
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After hearing out leaders of Florida’s struggling film industry, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham pledged to help as governor and said she blames ideological thinking in Tallahassee for driving away much of Florida’s former movie business. “It’s a philosophical problem. That’s what it is. That’s what it is!” Graham said. “That’s what it is in […]

Danny McAuliffeAugust 8, 2018
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What began as an intimate protest at a church in Tallahassee over the state’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law turned into a small march to the capitol and a subsequent meeting between a senior member of Gov. Rick Scott’s staff and some of the state’s high profile critics of race relations and gun violence, including […]


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