A review of campaign finance records reveals that the political action committee (PAC) started by City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow to support the re-election of City Commissioner Jack Porter and city commission candidate Dot Inman-Johnson received $25,000 on July 25, 2024, from the Green Advocacy Project, a left-wing progressive group located in California.
On June 7, Matlow announced he was creating a political committee – One Tallahassee – to support the campaigns of Porter and Inman-Johnson, a challenger to current City Commissioner Curtis Richardson.
The Green Advocacy Project was founded by Michael Kieschnick, an activist who founded and operated CREDO Mobile, an online advocacy software.
The project was formed in 2017 to advocate for the elimination of the use of traditional energy sources in the United States and a government-subsidized transition to weather-dependent energy.
Kieschnick has a history of supporting progressive causes.
In 2017, Kieschnick co-founded Real Justice PAC, a PAC supporting lenient criminal justice policies and the defund the police movement.
Kieschnick supported the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kieschnick is also board member with the Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation has received at least $22 million in donations from George Soros controlled non-profits.
The Green Advocacy Project lists a leadership team with significant political experience with the national progressive movement.
Becky Bond, a board member, was formerly a senior advisor to the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign and political director of CREDO Mobile.
Zack Malitz, a board member, helped lead the digital organizing department for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
Green Advocacy Group Involved with Previous Tallahassee Elections
This is not the first time the Green Advocacy Project has been tied to Tallahassee elections.
Campaign filings in 2022 revealed political groups that targeted Tallahassee City Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox received approximately $100,000 from the Green Advocacy Project.
The Tallahassee Democrat reported in 2018 that the Green Advocacy Project gave $12,500 directly to Max Herrle’s North Florida Leadership Fund PC. Herrle is a progressive campaign operative with ties to Porter and Matlow. That committee then gave $10,500 to Florida Young Democrats, which paid Herrle $10,000 before YouTube ads ran attacking Jeremy Matlow’s opponent, Lisa Brown.
Accepting money from a leftist/progressive PAC from California? What could possibly go wrong???
So, Matlow created a PAC to help get Porter re-elected and now help get Johnson Elected. I wonder if they will return the favor in two years?
I think it should concern school board voters why Matlow wants to influence a board race by openly supporting an out-of-the-blue candidate Jeremy Rogers who has chosen to not distance himself from the "endorsement" or the support.
Jeremy on twitter proudly accepting this money. When Jeremy launched this PAC he said it would be people powered. What does CREDO Mobile, OWS, all this national bs have to do with keeping lights on, picking up trash, paving roads, keeping toilets flushing or anything a neighborhood needs? All the things Jeremy Jacquiline, Dorothy, David O. rarely talk about or have interest in. They don't want to be City Commissioners. Jeremy wants attention and control. Go pay your taxes, son.
Wasn't going to anyway. This clarifies why.
Been saying it for a while now, and this just supports the notion...
If you elect these Pro-Hamas Progressive clowns - aka: Pizza Boy Matlow, AOC Mini-Me Porter, and Do(n)t Johnson - they will turn our fair city into another progressive cesspool like San Fran.