The New York Times has dropped a bombshell story on Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum. The tone of the piece will be familiar to anyone who followed the Times’s campaign of innuendo against Hillary Clinton, but the big takeaway is a dud even by Times standards: Extra, extra, read all about it … Andrew Gillum is ambitious! Imagine that, a man running for Florida governor at the age of 39 (or any age) is ambitious.
Gillum wished to give a public speech when he was sworn in as mayor. Gillum ran for Tallahassee city commission at 23, and won. Gillum was the vice president of the student body in high school, and he always had the agenda for meetings. I mean! This is devastating stuff!
Gillum is also close to lobbyists, in some cases people who were college friends. Two trips with one such college friend-turned-lobbyist are subjects of an ethics investigation as the friend had introduced Gillum to what turns out to have been undercover FBI agents investigating possible corruption in Tallahassee’s community redevelopment agency, but there’s no indication in the article that Gillum did anything particularly corrupt—and it’s clear that any such indication would be fully aired, since we are provided the damning information that Gillum, as one of five votes on the city commission, voted to extend the contract of a city lobbyist who has a subcontractor who is a Gillum friend and campaign adviser. Got that?
Andrew Gillum: he’s ambitious and smart and, as it turns out, when your college friends are all also political people you wind up with some lobbyist friends. This story and the added dose of insinuation brought to you by the New York Times, the same folks who laundered every Steve Bannon-backed hit job on Hillary Clinton into “respectable news.”
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