The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, August 9, 2024

The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, August 9, 2024

LOCAL NEWS

The Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) – which recently held a political forum attended by City Commissioner Jack Porter and city commission candidate Dot Inman-Johnson – called 13 newly sworn TPD officers “paid stooges” in a social media post following the city hall ceremony on August 6.

The capital city’s USPS branch now has a top leader. Vanessa Cobbs of Tallahassee is set to serve as Tallahassee’s new postmaster, according to a USPS press release. “I plan to strengthen our relationship between our employees and the community as we provide the best service possible,” Cobb said.

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.

FLORIDA NEWS

Republican attorneys general from 21 states, led by the attorneys general of Montana and Virginia, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia defending the federal law banning TikTok in the U.S.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is railing about something he calls a “snitch hotline” employed in Minnesota by the Democratic nominee for Vice President, Tim Walz. “He’s got this line in the stump speech saying, you know, ‘Our neighbors can do what they want. Mind your own damn business.’ Fine. Then why did you set up a snitch hotline for neighbors to report on their neighbors for violating your draconian COVID restrictions?” DeSantis said.

NATIONAL NEWS

Former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris agree to participate in Sept. 10 presidential debate on ABC; Trump says he has proposed two more debates on Fox and NBC (More) | See latest polls (More) .

US weekly jobless claims fall to 233,000 for week ending Aug. 3; figure is lower than estimates and largest drop in 11 months (More).

US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +2.3%, Dow +1.8%, Nasdaq +2.9%); S&P 500 notches best day since 2022 following latest labor market data (More).

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER

4 Responses to "The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, August 9, 2024"

  1. 25k from California for our lil ole city commission and school board races? Something is rotten in Denmark,,,

  2. To Vanessa Cobbs: Welcome. You have your work cut out for you at the Adams Street Location. Please set up Camp at that Location. You need to Double, maybe Triple the number of Employees, Train them and the Train them some more and then CROSS TRAIN THEM. Yes, Cross Train them. Many State Offices (My Office included) and Big Businesses are there at 6:00am waiting to pick up a lot of Mail from the “Call Window”. It is Carts of Mail each. Yesterday (8/8/24) NONE OF US got our Mail because the one Person that knows what to do wasn’t there. We get a LOT of Certified Mail and the Days the one Person that processes the Certified Mail is out, we don’t receive ANY Certified Mail. So my Advice is this: Hire MORE Staff and CROSS TRAIN them.

  3. The TCAC and their minions, Jack Porter, Jeremy Matlow, and Dot Johnson are nothing but thugs. They need to take a hike and find an island somewhere to destroy with their Socialist agenda.

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