Tag: Jimmy Patronis

Sixty Days — A prime-time look at the 2019 Legislative Session The Last 24 Good Thursday evening. Legislators wound down another committee week in advance of the 2019 Legislative Session, but the executive branch again dominated the headlines. Quote of the Day “There’s nothing I can say.” — Former Secretary of State Mike Ertel, who resigned Thursday after 14-year-old photos surfaced of him in blackface portraying a Hurricane Katrina victim. Rob Bradley and Rep. Travis Cummings fielded questions from media Thursday, offering an early glimpse of how they’ll work through potential budget problems during the 2019 Legislative Session. There are some areas of DOC that I think we can clear. We’re interested to see what Sen. [Jeff] Brandes does and I know I spoke to Chair Renner the other day on some things he’s pursuing. And I think some of the efforts that the Triumph funds were looking to address dovetail very nicely to some of the concerns that were raised for economic development and infrastructure issues that were hurt by virtue of Hurricane Michael. Bradley: I’m interested what the details of the bill are. I think it probably depends on the community whether it’s a good idea for that community or not. If the Florida Off-Road Foundation gets its way, drivers will have a 125th option next time they snag a plate.

He called on all Floridians to learn about and from the case. Though these men now lie in graves, their stories linger in search of justice.” DeSantis’ announcement comes after Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced on Wednesday that he would support the pardons. DeSantis indicated he might not wait until the next meeting of the Executive Clemency Board, which is not scheduled until March. That board is made up of DeSantis and the other Florida Cabinet members, Patronis, Fried, and Moody. DeSantis said he would make it a priority for the first meeting of the Florida Cabinet in January. Yet in the 20 months since, the Executive Clemency Board led by Gov. On Wednesday, informed of Patronis’ decision to put the matter on the agenda for the next Executive Clemency Board, Greenlee’s daughter Carol Greenlee emotionally declared, “Thank you Jesus!” DeSantis urged all Floridians to become acquainted with the case and to learn from it. “I appreciate the Legislature’s unanimous resolve and CFO Jimmy Patronis’ recent request that the Clemency Board consider the case. I look forward to reviewing the report of the Office of Executive Clemency and making the cases of the Groveland Four a priority for the first meeting of the Florida Cabinet in January. “Seventy years is a long time to wait, but it is never too late to do the right thing.”

The following are items of political interest from the past week: The campaign of Republican Ron DeSantis is going after Democrat Andrew Gillum over comments made by his running mate nearly two decades ago. Some voters this week got text messages that noted inflammatory comments made by lieutenant governor nominee Chris King back in 1999. King came in fifth in the election won by Gillum. The Gillum campaign sharply criticized the text messages as a "smear tactic" by the DeSantis campaign. It only took a few days for the Ring campaign to launch a rival website called JimmyPatronis.info that bashed some of Patronis campaign donors for their past legal run-ins. Patronis got a ticket while driving the SUV because he had an accident while traveling to his political consultant's office to pick up thank-you cards. Hillary Clinton may have lost Florida in the 2016 presidential election, but she's coming back to the state to help campaign for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum. Gillum's campaign announced that Clinton will join Gillum on Oct. 23 in South Florida. Clinton made several visits to the Sunshine State ahead of the 2016 election, but the Democratic nominee lost the state to President Donald Trump by nearly 113,000 votes.