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LOCAL NEWS
On April 10th, local candidates for political office filed their latest campaign contribution and expense reports with Leon County Supervisor of Elections. While primary election day, August 20, is still months away, the reports are beginning to provide information on what races will be competitive and which incumbents may not be challenged.
Former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham will get a fitting farewell as the Sunshine State mourns his loss. Graham will lie in state at the Florida Historic Capitol Museum on Friday, April 26 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., according to Funeral Director Rocky Bevis.
The Leon County Commission is scheduled to vote on a $150K project for the Lake Talquin Volunteer Fire Department off Smith Creek Road. They serve primarily rural residents of Leon County and are 10 miles away from the closest water filling station. The project would build a water tank at their volunteer fire department station. Leon County Commissioner Christian Caban has offered his support for the plan.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
A new era has begun for the Florida A&M men’s basketball program as Patrick Crarey II was introduced as the program’s 15th head coach on Thursday, and his vision for the Rattlers is simple.
No. 8 Florida State (30-6, 10-5) visits No. 12 Wake Forest (24-12, 9-9) for its first of two straight conference series on the road. The three-game series kicks off Friday at 6:00 p.m. as the Seminoles look for their fifth ACC series win of the season. Jamie Arnold is taking the mound tonight at the game can be seen the ACC Network Extra and heard on 100.7 WFLA.
FLORIDA NEWS
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Thursday allowing for schools to create a volunteer chaplain program to provide support services for students. The governor also signed a bill allowing for “patriotic organizations” to be invited to public schools in order to share resources with students, such as the Boy Scouts of America. One of the notable exceptions of the religious chaplain bill is one group not permitted on campus: Satanists. DeSantis referred to them as “not a religion.”
Florida is the top destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua who got accepted into President Biden’s humanitarian parole program, according to a new report. The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing analysis of the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, reports that some 326,000 migrants from the four countries have arrived at airports in Florida in the past year.
A leading Florida House Republican on Wednesday called for passage of funding bills for U.S. allies Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. “The strategic alliance between our most dangerous adversaries, such as communist China, Russia and the terrorist State of Iran, poses a direct threat to our national security,” said U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, in a statement.
NATIONAL NEWS
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson looks set to push forward this weekend on a $95 billion aid bill for Kyiv, Israel and other allies, despite a firestorm of protest from hardline Republicans that could lead to an attempt to oust him.
Lawyers in Donald Trump’s criminal trial are expected on Friday to wrap up the painstaking process of selecting a jury that will for the first time in U.S. history determine whether a former president is guilty of breaking the law.
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq -0.5%); S&P 500 notches longest losing streak since October (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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@ Resident Since 1990 – since I am self Funded, I can keep all mine. Those that accepted donations can return what wasn’t spent or donate it to Charity.
@ Publius = Clink on the Link scroll to the Name you want and click on that Name and it will show you all the Months & Quarters, scroll down to the Month Quarter you want to see and click on it. You can see it all from start to finish.
What happens to the campaign contributions NOT spent?
Are the candidates accountable to disclose where that unspent money goes?
Hawk, link only showed first qtr funds of $20K of which Caban inputted $13K
Thanks Hawk.
@ Publius and anyone else interested, just go here and see who gave to who:
https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?el=24&c=leon
Will TR be conducting an investigation on the sources of Commissioner Caban’s huge election funds? Who will he beholding too? What connections do they have in the community? What projects are they interested in which may be in conflict with the ovrrall interests of the comminity?
I think the Governor of each State should be asked if they want to accept illegals into their State and if the Governor says NO, the President should abide by that.
STOP giving our Tax Dollars to other Countries, we need it HERE.
“One of the notable exceptions of the religious chaplain bill is one group not permitted on campus: Satanists. DeSantis referred to them as “not a religion.” ”
I love how dumb this guy is. The government doesn’t get to decide what is a real religion is or not. What about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? What about people who worship Cthulhu? What about Scientologists? What about fundamentalist Muslims? They’re all going to be allowed in school, but not the Satanists?
No doubt this will be immediately challenged by the ACLU and other organizations and the state will spend tons of money paying lawyers or people who stayed at a holiday inn express last night and think they are lawyers like Pam Bondi to defend this. Eventually, of course, the
state will lose, but not before Florida is a laughing stock (again). It’s just amazing that anyone would eat this up.