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Investigative reporter covering corporate influence in Florida. Publisher of Seeking Rents, a newsletter and podcast about state politics. https://jasongarcia.substack.com
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialAttn #Florida voters: Amendment 2 may be hiding a big tax break for Big Weed. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/amendment-... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialPodcast: Tech bros are coming for #Florida elections. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-tech-b... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialThe developers behind the sprawl-inducing “Blue Ribbon Projects” bill (to let developers bypass locals when building on big tracts of rural land) are pouring money into #Florida Senate races -- more than $180,000 last month jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-invest... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialHEY ORLANDO, SEE YOU THIS THURSDAY! Join me at the SW Branch of the Orlando-Orange Library at 2 pm when I'll be yakking about my newest book WELCOME TO #FLORIDA! Admission is free but there's a charge if you bring your emotional support emu with no leash.
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialLast year, #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & his Cabinet voted 4-0 to pay a sketchy developer $83M for 4A of land the state didn't need. Now that shady developer is donating to top #Florida Republicans. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/top-republ... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialPODCAST: Last year, #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & his Cabinet spent more than $80M in taxpayer money to buy four acres from a shady donor. The politicians who approved DeSastrous' dopey deal are now running for re-election. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-story-... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.social#Florida CFO Blaise "The Blatherer" Ingoglia is spending millions in taxpayer $$$ on ads to promote himself. An appointee of Gov. Ron DeSastrous now running for election, he's ordered up a barrage of pre-election PSAs. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/blaise-ing... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@barbi24.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialDonalds has to lose!
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialSome interesting big donors to Byron Donalds last week: - Big Sugar producer Florida Crystals ($205,000) - DeVos family ($1 million) - Disney (~$78,000 in free stuff) - NE Florida agricultural enclave developers: Davis family/DDI Inc., PARC Group & Hutson Cos. ($450,000)
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialNew: After the 2024 election, the DeSantis administration awarded a new contract to attorneys who helped secure the multimillion-dollar legal settlement that DeSantis aides used to fund political campaigns — in the scheme known as the Hope Florida scandal.
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialNew: After the 2024 election, the DeSantis administration awarded a new contract to attorneys who helped secure the multimillion-dollar legal settlement that DeSantis aides used to fund political campaigns — in the scheme known as the Hope Florida scandal.
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.social#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' staff quietly rehired jilted lawyers who helped secure the Hope Florida settlement that turned into massive scandal. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/desantis-s... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialKey figures in the Hope #Florida scandal -- including the scheme's mastermind, AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier -- are ducking questions and passing the buck. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/key-figure... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialPodcast: Inside the bipartisan plot that took out the best senator in #Florida -- who's now back & running for AG. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-bipart... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialReal estate agents put $10 million into campaign to pass #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' boneheaded Amendment 3 ballot measure which is expected to screw up every local govt in the state. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/real-estat... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialA lobbying group for real estate agents just put $10 million into the campaign to pass Amendment 3 in Florida – a massive property tax cut that is expected to drive up home prices (and agent commissions):
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.social#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' boneheaded Amendment 3 could increase home prices across the state & real estate agents LOVE that. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/amendment-... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@craigtimes.bsky.socialReposted by @jasongarcia.bsky.socialPODCAST: The release of a bombshell grand jury report into the $10 million “Hope #Florida” affair has rocked the state’s political landscape two months before the election. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/hope-flori... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialNew: A deep dive into a grand jury investigation of the Hope Florida affair — the scheme in which the administration of Ron DeSantis took $10 million owed to Florida taxpayers and spent it instead on political campaigns during the 2024 elections:
@jasongarcia.bsky.socialThe Florida Realtors, a lobbying group for real estate agents, has formed a political committee to promote the proposed constitutional amendment that would dramatically cut and cap local government property tax collections.
