Gillum, Andrew

=investigated for what?=desantis trumpista mercer koch massive covid fail1 mill voter reg fla<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://rawstory.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80b42ecc21f29763320aceb90&id=8995989395&e=4da1f92934" style="">Andrew Gillum has a brilliant plan that could thwart Trump’s hopes for re-election</a>On Wednesday, POLITICO reported that former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum,…=<div>=</div><div>
</div><div>an 11 22 raw  https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/trump-desantis-2658636638/</div><div>Donald Trump's Thursday <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unleashes-new-fury-on-ron-desantis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">meltdown on his Truth Social website</a> had already made its way into court proceedings in Florida just one day later."Former President Donald Trump's post-election screed labeling Florida's governor '<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ron-desantis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ron DeSanctimonious</a>' didn't go unnoticed by Andrew Gillum or his Miami lawyers," the Tallahassee Democrat <a href="https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/fbi/2022/11/11/andrew-gillum-says-trump-rant-proves-he-targeted-feds-fbi/10671367002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">reported</a>. "In addition to saying he helped 'fix' DeSantis' campaign after it had 'completely fallen apart,' Trump said he also got the feds to intervene 'when votes were being stolen' in Broward County."Gillum was beaten by Ron DeSantis in the 2018 midterms."David Markus and Katherine Miller, who are representing Gillum on federal public corruption charges involving donations to his gubernatorial campaign, didn't fire back at insults Trump hurled at Tallahassee's former mayor," the newspaper reported. "Instead, they cited Trump's statement in a motion filed Friday in federal court saying it further supported their request for a hearing on whether the federal government selectively prosecuted Gillum because of his race."In a series of posts imitating a Twitter thread, a feature Trump's Truth Social does not support, Trump had harsh words for DeSantis.Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109322017568994719" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">complained</a> that Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Post had gone <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/rupert-murdochs-tabloid-prints-brutal-cover-wondering-if-gop-can-recover-from-donald-trump/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"all in" for DeSantis</a>, who Trump described as "an average Republican governor with great public relations.""I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win," Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109322011642437369" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">claimed</a>.Gillum's lawyers seized on Trump's social media remarks in their filing."Former President Trump's posts raise serious questions about how exactly Trump 'fixed' DeSantis' campaign and what Trump directed the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office to do, and whether there is any connection to the FBI's investigation and later prosecution of Gillum," Gillum's lawyers argued.The attorneys said Trump's Truth Social post demonstrates a "prima facie case of selective prosecution (at a minimum for political purposes), because Donald Trump confirms that he took action through the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office."According to The Washington Post, Trump's claims of sending federal agents to intervene in the election <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/11/trump-desantis-2018-election-fbi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">are "also almost certainly false."</a></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div>=<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102018/florida-governor-election-gillum-desantis-environment-hurricane-toxic-algae-young-voters">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102018/florida-governor-election-gillum-desantis-environment-hurricane-toxic-algae-young-voters</a>=
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/hurricane-michael-downgraded-to-category-3-officials-warn-of-life-threatening-storm-surge" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hurricane Michael</a> bears down on the Florida Panhandle, destroying structures and turning roads into rivers, politics is likely the last thing on most of the affected population's minds. But GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Ron DeSantis and the state Republican Party kept blasting negative ads over the airwaves anyway.Florida Republicans are still airing two ads in the hurricane strike zone, both of which attack Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor. Making it even crasser, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAA4fotHcoU&feature=youtu.be&cs-from=79858357-4cb7-4455-ba2f-0784c51a4392" style="text-decoration-line: none;">both</a> of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICIeixyV_Cw&feature=youtu.be&cs-from=79858357-4cb7-4455-ba2f-0784c51a4392" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ads</a> proclaim Gillum "unfit to lead" because of the way he handled the aftermath of another hurricane.According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/negative-ads-florida-hurricane-889482" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marc Caputo</a> of Politico, "It had once been considered taboo in Florida to run negative campaign attack ads as a hurricane batters the state. But no more."Attack ads against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Gov. Rick Scott, who are battling each other in a close race for Senate, also <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/negative-ads-florida-hurricane-889482" style="text-decoration-line: none;">continued to air</a> in the strike zone. However, these ads were released by independent super PACs that do not, legally, coordinate with candidates. The anti-Gillum ads were approved by the DeSantis campaign and the state party.Facing criticism over their decision to still be broadcasting attack ads into the homes of people in mortal danger, the Florida Republican Party eventually backed down and agreed to suspend the ads.Gillum, whose city lies in the path of the hurricane, has spent his time looking after his constituents and coordinating with Scott:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the phone with <a href="https://twitter.com/FLGovScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">@FLGovScott</a> providing updates and continuing open lines of communication regarding <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichaelTLH?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">#MichaelTLH</a><a href="https://t.co/hKSZGz4s7V" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pic.twitter.com/hKSZGz4s7V</a>— Office of the Mayor (@MayorOfTLH) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorOfTLH/status/1050099474801090562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">October 10, 2018</a></blockquote>However, Gillum also had some critical words for the partisan politics of the situation on MSNBC."We can't recall a time where candidates for statewide office have not pulled down negative ads during hurricane season," he said. "You've got a whole region of our state, where folks are fleeing for their lives, anticipating what is a life-threatening event impacting this state. I again would encourage my opponent to just subside with the politics. We'll have plenty enough room — beyond this storm — to compete between our ideas. What we need now is for the state to come together to reduce our partisanship and to focus on this important storm impacting our state."==