The City of Tallahassee subsidized restaurant, The Edison, is in the news again after firing the highly respected hospitality operator Steve Adams. The scrutiny has resulted in various media reports and an audit request by City Commissioner Scott Maddox. However, what media reports have failed to address is a persistent question that appears in many different […]
Finance reports filed today show that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has raised approximately $755,000 for the contest, including $246,000 for his campaign and $509,000 for his affiliated Forward Florida PAC that can accept unlimited donations. Of the $755,000, approximately $425,000 or 55% came from donors outside of Florida. The Campaign Account The campaign finance […]
Andrew Gillum claimed he would run a grassroots gubernatorial campaign that would take on special interests. At his campaign roll out, in Kleman Plaza, Gillum said, we’re going to run a race that is powered by people. It’s going to be your $25 dollar contributions, your $5, your $10, that’s going to make it possible […]
Recently, internal documents from the Open Society non-profit headed by billionaire George Soros have been released to the public by anonymous hackers and provided in a searchable database. TR’s search of the documents reveal, that in May of this year the Open Society group applauded Mayor Andrew Gillum’s decision to welcome Syrian refugees to the […]
It appears Mayor Andrew Gillum is uncomfortable supporting recommendations from independent voices when it comes to more stringent ethics rules for elected officials. At the last City Commission meeting, Commissioner Scott Maddox asked the City Commissioners to vote for a resolution that supported Florida Senate Bill 582, entitled Misuse of Public Office Act which has been […]
A lobbyist creates relationships with elected officials and then capitalizes on those relationships by selling access and influence. It appears Adam Corey, the Edison owner and Andrew Gillum associate, has taken the final step in this process by registering to lobby Mayor Gillum and the City Commission. We have written about how Mr. Corey has […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that Adam Corey, the owner of The Edison in Cascades Park and the former campaign treasurer for Mayor Andrew Gillum, was appointed to the Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA) in 2014 even though he was being paid by an association that has financial ties through association members with the THA. The Board […]
Tallahassee Reports recently posted a story on the 21% increase in spending requested by Mayor Gillum’s office in the proposed 2016 City of Tallahassee budget. The full story, with video from the budget workshop where City Commissioner Scott Maddox asked about the increase, can be seen here. Now we have more details about the increase. Tallahassee Reports […]
In February of this year, Mayor Andrew Gillum told the Tallahassee Democrat that he paid travel expenses out of his office account on three different occasions for his travel companions. However, public records indicate that Gillum failed to detail those expenses in his latest office account report filed with the Leon County Supervisor of Elections. Elected officials […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that Sean Pittman, Mayor Gillum’s travel companion on three trips over the last four months, was registered to lobby the City Commission for an insurance company seeking business from the City of Tallahassee during two of those trips. The form on file with the City of Tallahassee is shown below and […]