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Daily Outtakes: Fish House refinance, D4 racist mailer and Salzman’s spending spree

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Some of Pensacola’s most popular restaurants aren’t closing, and their ownership isn’t changing.

A Great Southern Restaurants spokesperson last night explained the report of Truist foreclosing on a loan tied to several of its restaurants, including Fish House, Atlas Oyster House, Jackson’s Steakhouse, Five Sisters’ Blues Cafe, and Angelena’s, was based on court documents recently filed, but the foreclosure is the result of a debt restructuring negotiation that failed.

The total value of the properties securing the debt is about $20 million, and the company is confident it will refinance the debt with another bank, according to the spokesperson.

The restaurants’s operations will not be impacted.


Florida Politics picked up my article on the blackface, race-baiting mailer sent to Republican voters in Escambia County’s District 4. Readers statewide will read about today in Peter Schorsch’s daily newsletter, Sunburn.

While the News Journal has ignored the mailer, its Fort Walton Beach reporter, Tom McLaughlin, reports two Walton County Commissioners are in trouble for racist text messages sent while attending a conference in Washington, D.C. in July 2021. The Sunburn newsletter highlights the article.

The first text message, which read “Plenty of (N-word) out this evening” was accompanied by a photo of two Black men seated in a vehicle.


State Rep. Michelle Salzman has spent more money on her reelection than any state lawmaker in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties – over $409,000, even though her Democratic opponent has only spent about $2,200.

However, our analysis shows that some of her expenditures were donations to the Republican Party of Florida and other candidates – $58,508. The net on her campaign is $350,887.66

Local Candidates

Jeff Bergosh 500
Ashlee Hofberger 1000
Sam Parker 1000
Colton Wright 1000
Total 3500

Lawmakers

Keith Truenon 1000
Michelle Cook 1000
Joel Rudman 1000
Ericka Booth 1000
Michael Redondo 1000
Dave Mulica 500
Jim Mooney 1000
Dan Gaetz 1000
Heather McArthur 1000
Ericka Booth 1000
Raemi Eagle 1000
Gladyvette Benarroch 1000
Mary Blanco 1000
Juan Fernandez-Barquin 1000
Dana Trabulsy 1000
Michael Redondo 500
Total 15000

 

RPOF

RPOF House Majority 15008
RPOF 25000
Total 40008
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