Posts about the “bikini” mailer, a failed coup at the county and the lack of fact-checking at the News Journal attracted our readers attention this past week.
1. Daily Outtakes: Ashley H. gets dose of her political medicine
District 4 voters have received a mailer from a political action committee blasting Commissioner Ashley Hofberger as “unqualified, unserious & already corrupt.”
Floridians for a Better Florida sent the mailer that attacks Hofberger, who won the GOP primary and Gov. DeSantis appointed to serve until the election, for “taking over $100,000 from Escambia taxpayers for a part-time job.” It says that she is “backed by corrupt politicians ripping us off.” The mailer was very similar to the “blackface” mailer a PAC tied to Hofberger sent out during the GOP primary. Read more.
2. Daily Outtakes: Axios of Evil fails
The Pensacola News Journal, County Clerk Pam Childers, Andrew McKay, Escambia Citizens Watch and the ethically-challenged couple, Doug Underhill and Jonathan Owens, failed to defeat incumbent District 5 Commissioner Steven Barry. No NPA candidate has ever won a partisan race in the modern history of Escambia County politics. Childers’ hand-picked Joshua Roberson only received 38% of the vote against Barry, despite the clerk making a robocall and waving at the polls. Kim Kline came in a distant third in her attempt to unseat Alex Andrade, falling short of 7% of the votes in Escambia and Santa Rosa. Read more.
3. What’s on Mayor Reeves’ To Do List
At his weekly presser, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discussed the new 10-year strategic plan that Anna Muessig of Gehl will present to the Pensacola City Council during its agenda review on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
The eight main goals in the final report are:
- Attainable housing for all income levels
- Safe streets for all mobilities
- Support for youth experiences
- Resilient waterfronts and neighborhoods
- More walkable, mixed-use districts
- Public spaces that connect communities
- Thriving innovation and business
- Neighborhoods that celebrate culture and honor legacy
Mayor Reeves continued, “I’m excited to see the response and feedback from the community and these guiding principles that should help us with every decision.” Read more.
4. Fact-check: UWF Haas Center did analysis for DPZ, too
It is apparent that PNJ columnist Theresa Blackwell didn’t read the recent University of West Florida study regarding just 46 acres of OLF-8 before she wrote her column attacking the economists. Blackwell didn’t understand the analysis and mischaracterized it as a “either-or fallacy.” Read more.
5. We will get an new USPS downtown location
Following a 30-day period inviting community feedback and U.S. Postal Service review of all public feedback, the Postal Service has made a final decision to relocate retail services from 101 Palafox Place to a new, yet-to-be determined location, as close as reasonably possible to the existing Post Office location. Read more.
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