Campaign finance records show that city commission candidate Dot Inman Johnson has paid her husband, Lee Johnson, $3,000 for political consulting services. The payments were made on August 15, 2024 ($2,000) and September 10, 2024 ($1,000). The payments were made to an individual, not a registered political consultant business. The August 15, 2024, payment was […]
City Commissioner Jack Porter won her primary election on Tuesday with 53.46 % of the vote. She defeated Rudy Ferguson (38.79%) and Louis Dilbert (7.75%). Here are some of the numbers behind her victory. Of the 117,304 registered city voters, 33,784 cast a vote in the race which translates to a primary voter turnout rate […]
Three local races ended with incumbents receiving more than 70% of the vote. In the race for Leon County Property Appraiser, the incumbent Akin Akinyemi won with 71.7% of the vote. The challenger, Ken Preston, received 28.3% of the vote. In the race for Superintendent of Schools, incumbent Rocky Hanna won the Democrat primary with […]
Leon County School Board member Laurie Cox held off challenger Jeremy Rogers to win a non-partisan election that essentially became a battle between a Republican and Democrat. The early vote gave Rogers a slim 51%-49% lead, but as the election day votes came in, Cox secured 52.32% of the vote in a district that leans […]
City Commissioner Curtis Richardson and challenger Dot Inman-Johnson are headed to a November runoff. Inman-Johnson tallied 46.67% of Tuesday’s primary vote (15,766) followed by Richardson with 43.57% (14,718). Donna Nyack finished with 5.63% and Bernard Stevens received 4.14% of the vote. There were 33,784 votes cast in the race. Unofficial numbers show that Richardson was […]
City Commissioner Jack Porter won a second term on the Tallahassee city commission winning a majority of votes cast in Tuesday’s primary election and avoiding a November runoff. Porter won her first race for Seat 1 with approximately 52% of the vote in 2020. Porter won with 53.46% of the vote (18,062) followed by Rudy […]
Tallahassee City Commissioner Jack Porter is being challenged by Rudy Ferguson and Louis Dilbert during this election cycle. Porter was elected to City Commission Seat 1 in 2020. Porter won the election in the August primary with 52% of the vote. Elaine Bryant came in second with 40% of the vote. Provided below are the […]
Leon County voters, especially Tallahassee residents, have received a number of political texts and pieces of mail promoting a negative message about their opponents. There are two questions to ask regarding the “smear” messages being sent out: one, does negative campaigning influence the likelihood of voting in an election; and two, does it gain votes […]
Two weeks ahead of pivotal city elections, state campaign records show that Jeremy Matlow’s political committee received $50,000 in donations from a California progressive group – the Green Advocacy Project – and the group’s founder. In addition, during this period the political committee received a $25,000 donation from a group with a virtual office based […]
On Friday, City Commissioner Jack Porter sent a campaign text message referencing former City Commissioner Scott Maddox and the “corruption era” in an effort to appeal to Republican voters. Ironically, Porter sought Maddox’s counsel – after he was indicted on corruption charges – during her first 2020 campaign for the city commission, which she eventually […]