“When undecideds start breaking, we believe it’s closer to a 10-15 net gain,” Van Name contended. Read: ‘It’s depressing’: Locals, business owners concerned over St. Matthew Van Name, a Fried strategist, said in a statement Wednesday that Fried jumped 7 percentage points in internal polling when Taddeo was removed from the candidates. Annette Taddeo, D-Miami, exited the gubernatorial race to run for a South Florida congressional seat, the Fried campaign said it expects a bounce. The subway question was posed before Fort Lauderdale city commissioners Tuesday night voted to pay Elon Musk’s Boring Company $375,000 to determine how much it would cost - $100 million has been estimated - for two underground tunnels where people could circumvent Las Olas Boulevard traffic in Teslas.Īfter Sen. DeSantis said traffic congestion isn’t good for commuters’ time or the overall economy. The private Brightline passenger-rail service drew $15.9 million in federal matching funds last week for expansion plans between Orlando and Tampa. Read: DCPS asks students to leave backpacks behind for summer programs
On Monday, DeSantis supported some above-ground public transportation to alleviate congestion in Central Florida’s Interstate 4 corridor.Īsked about trains, buses and even subways as potential ways to reduce traffic jams, DeSantis first dismissed the idea of anything below-ground as something that “would not necessarily be a prudent use of tax funds.” “Proof that in Florida, we take election integrity seriously,” DeSantis tweeted. Read: Weekend Spotlight: Jacksonville celebrates 200 years He also contended other states had voting “irregularities” and refused to say whether President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.ĭeSantis tweeted Sunday that the state is putting more than $14 million into efforts such as election cybersecurity and creation of a first-of-its-kind office to investigate alleged voting irregularities. “But in the Sunshine State, what were whispers of Jim Crow-era voter suppression have become a foreboding roar.”įried called the new congressional map “discriminatory” and described Byrd’s views as “radical far-right.”ĭeSantis last month appointed Byrd, a former Republican lawmaker from Northeast Florida, to succeed former Secretary of State Laurel Lee, who stepped down to run for Congress.īyrd later said voters should be confident in the state’s voting process, including when they cast ballots by mail. “America has come a long way from poll taxes, literacy tests and open intimidation and suppression of minority groups,” Crist wrote. Department of Justice, Crist and Fried expressed worries about issues such as new state laws altering voting procedures, a redrawn congressional map pushed by DeSantis and the views of new Secretary of State Cord Byrd, who oversees the Florida Division of Elections. It isn’t expected to be completed until after the 2022 elections.ĭemocratic gubernatorial candidates Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried want federal oversight of Florida’s elections. The sale, which also includes stations in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, requires Federal Communications Commission approval. “In the Latino community, radio still plays such an important part, and in places like Florida it obviously plays a critically important part,” Valencia told WLRN.
Among those providing financing is Lakestar Finance, an investment group tied to Soros. The buyers are a group headed by Democratic activist Jess Morales Rocketto and Stephanie Valencia, who was a Latino outreach director under former President Barack Obama. The TelevisaUnivision network plans to sell 18 of its Spanish-language radio stations, including the ultraconservative Radio Mambí. In an ad running on Radio Mambí and WQBA-AM, DeSantis warned Spanish-speaking voters of “leftist disinformation” and said that in the “fight against socialism in America,” the left and Soros “are coming with their ideological agenda.”
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