Glenna Milberg
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TV Journalist in the best news town on the planet🌎 Host of "This Week in South Florida" Sundays 11:30. AM=Coffee, PM=Red Wine🍷& game for anything in between
WPLG Local10 News
Joined February 2010
Thanks to 80-year old Maria, who discovered her political party switched from Democrat to Republican without her consent, we get our first look at the voter registration worker who knocked at her door. So we went to *her* door …. Our report tonight @WPLGLocal10 ⏩
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👀 October surprise 👀.Whoa - Former Republican Party of Florida Chair Al Cardenas is endorsing Democrat Annette Taddeo in the race for Miami-Dade Congress D27. one of the most watched in the nation. He announced it at this gathering👇🏼 ⏩. @WPLGLocal10 ⏩
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#Florida Cong. Matt Gaetz is now tied to shill candidate in a state senate election. This thread shows how *that* ghost candidate is directly connected to two So Fla shills we busted last Nov. It’s in the money trail that led to Frank Artiles arrest. Here we go:.@WPLGLocal10
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Last Nov, Florida Republican voter registration surpassed Democrats by @ 4,000 votes. Included in that- >5,000 Miami Dade Democrats recorded as “switched”. Now more senior voters are telling us- they didn’t know their party affiliations changed. Our report tonight @WPLGLocal10.⏩
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Crazy pre-show at @thebbtcenter . packed house of President Trump ‘s energized base support for “homecoming rally”.Part pep rally, part #political machine.@WPLGLocal10 #TrumpRally #Sunrise #Florida
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🚨Breaking: search warrant raid right now at home of resigned #Florida Sen. Frank Artiles re shill candidate he planted, Alex Rodriguez. re: scheme to dupe voters/manipulate a Nov 2020 FL senate election. Much to come. @WPLGLocal10 .Background⏩
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Standing room only for Andrew Yang rally in #DesMoines #Iowa . We met some young caucus goers who say they switched their support from Bernie Sanders after meeting Yang “looking for humanity”.@WPLGLocal10 .#CampaignTrail #iowacaucus
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I just looked this up to respond to a viewer email… .And it appears Rush Limbaugh does not qualify for a flag lowering honor under #Florida state protocols:.
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Of course Cuomo should resign. So should anyone, Democrat or Republican, who treats employees that way. Sexual harassment is not a political issue.
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4 yrs ago this month, we noticed something odd about 2 FL senate candidates, and dug in…. Today, former FL Sen Frank Artiles was sentenced for his role in paying a shill to be a fake candidate, dupe voters & steal the election. Our wrap tonight @WPLGLocal10▶️
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🚨🚨Coming for arrest right now🚨🚨. Ex-#Florida Sen. Frank Artiles (in lawyer’s car) for planting & funding a fake candidate, manipulating Nov2020 elections.*illegal campaign $$$.*conspiring to do it.*False swearing-in.First stop: #Miami Dade Co. jail.More coming @WPLGLocal10.
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Hello from South Dade Landfill, where $millions in brand-new medical ventilators were dumped & destroyed. infuriating some who know the need for the most serious #covid19 patients. It’s here On video (*salty language alert*). Also, threading what we’ve learned.@WPLGLocal10⏩
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Another happy ending for Robert Kraft :.
Florida prosecutors announced Thursday that they are dropping a misdemeanor charge against Patriots owner Robert Kraft after a court blocked their use of video that allegedly shows him paying for sex at a Jupiter spa in early 2019.
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Happening now….Brutal Miami summer hot & humid as crowds wait to get into former Prez Donald Trump‘s rally in Doral .@WPLGLocal10
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Back to #Florida Cong. Matt Gaetz, whom NYT connects to D9 shill candidate Jestine Iannotti. Shill “schemes” are not illegal in #Florida; illegal campaign funding is. That’s how #Miami SAO charged Artiles & Rodriguez. No indication Central FL SAOs are on the case. @WPLGLocal10.
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All 3 filed as no-party-affiliation, did no campaigning, no fundraising, nothing. And yet they were backed by two Political Action Committees: “Our Florida” and “The Truth”. Both PACS were created the same day, Oct. 2nd - a month before the election. And that’s just the start.
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The three shill candidates planted in three #Florida state senate races last November are:.Celso Alfonso (in D39 #MiamiDade), Alex Rodriguez (in D37 #Miami Dade), Jestine Iannotti (D9 Central FL - no pic) . @WPLGLocal10
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Here are the flyers they printed: identical in graphics but for the shill candidates’ names. They were mailed to the respective districts’ voters to make the shills appeal to Democrats, to siphon votes from the real Dems in the race (all of whom lost). @WPLGLocal10
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Evidence coming out in boxes from Frank Artiles ‘s house. The warrant includes computer(s), his cell phone, a safe inside the house. They are looking for evidence of communications & financing of plant candidate Alex Rodriguez. @WPLGLocal10
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Both PACs have only 1 contribution & only 1 expenditure. And they’re identical. The only contributor (10/3, a day after opening): “Proclivity”, which suddenly changed in Florida campaign records to “Grow United”. Both are untraceable co’s registered in Delaware. @WPLGLocal10
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🚨Breaking.Evidence the voter ID switches we’ve been reporting in Miami-Dade are Florida -wide, per @Annette_Taddeo. The pattern holds: lifelong Democrats claim their political party IDs were flipped to Republican after visits by paid canvassers. Background👇🏼@WPLGLocal10.
Thanks to 80-year old Maria, who discovered her political party switched from Democrat to Republican without her consent, we get our first look at the voter registration worker who knocked at her door. So we went to *her* door …. Our report tonight @WPLGLocal10 ⏩
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Two days later, 10/5, both PACs made what would be their only expenditure - all the money, $550K - to the same Clermont, FL printing company “Advance Impressions”. It’s owners are from Miami: the mom & stepdad of a GOP strategist tied to both PACs. The product?. :. @WPLGLocal10.
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. Notice $370,000 went to “Our Florida” PAC, supporting the two South Florida shill candidates, Rodriguez & Alfonso. $180,000 went to “The Truth” PAC, supporting one Central Florida shill candidate, Iannotti. @WPLGLocal10.
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". you either tune in to watch @seanspicer defend the indefensible or to watch media bias in action” @AlexConant via
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Meet “Shake” – the hero who saved two elderly men being robbed at the Wells Fargo in Northwest Dade. Plus, he got the bad guy. Amazing story he tells! Listen:.@WPLGLocal10
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Charlie Crist has always been the kinder, gentler candidate. So when he answered my question about Gov. Ron DeSantis supporters like this👇🏼, he telegraphed something different ahead in the race for Florida Governor ⏩. @WPLGLocal10
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“The state has crossed the line… to censoring speech…”. A Florida federal judge has blocked state agencies from ordering @WPLGLocal10 & other television stations to take down abortion rights Amendment 4 ads. Here’s background on the specific ad targeted by the state ▶️
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A former Florida voter registration worker says she watched colleagues change unwitting Florida voters’ party affiliations from Democrat to Republican. She’s taking her allegations to prosecutors this week. Listen to her account in our wrap tonight @WPLGLocal10 .⏩
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Sworn statement from the (just resigned) General Counsel for Florida Dept of Health: Gov DeSantis attorneys directed him to sign & send already-drafted letters to censor & threaten tv stations about removing Yes on 4 ads; and instead of doing more, he resigned. @WPLGLocal10
“The state has crossed the line… to censoring speech…”. A Florida federal judge has blocked state agencies from ordering @WPLGLocal10 & other television stations to take down abortion rights Amendment 4 ads. Here’s background on the specific ad targeted by the state ▶️
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From now-fired Florida DEP cartographer who admits being whistleblower on “secret, fast-tracked plans” to develop in 9 state parks, as told in his GoFundMe:. @WPLGLocal10
This person says he was fired from @FLDEPNews Office of Park Planning “after alerting the public (to) a secret, fast-tracked plan to build golf courses,…hotels, disc golf courts, and pickleball courts…across 9 of our Florida State Parks.”
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Shift change … search & rescue teams coming off a 12hr shift from the mountain of debris & remains at the Surfside building collapse. The toll shows on their faces…. They tell families today, infrared cameras show “voids” large enough to possibly hold survivors.@WPLGLocal10
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His car drive right past the jail entrance when he saw our camera. But eventually, they had to U-turn and come back. Here’s the seriously quick right through @WPLGLocal10 :.
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In our live report, you can see residents’ exposed belongings & furniture in apartments suddenly torn apart As the building collapsed. Just after, I received this message👇🏼💔
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“…grandmother is a registered Democrat; we did not understand how her political registration was changed. ”. The new voter ID card👇🏼 arrived as a shock to the 84-yo Miami voter, a lifelong Democrat. Who changed her party affiliation? .Our report @WPLGLocal10
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Just in - .Re - US Dept of Justice plans to monitor a list of polling places, including Miami Dade, Broward & Palm Beach Co’s: .This response from Florida state election law team👇🏼. @WPLGLocal10
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2/ The stamp on the crate shows the ventilator manufacturer is a 35yr old company in Beijing: Aerospace Changfeng Ltd. The shipment likely came through US Customs last May. @WPLGLocal10
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4/ A Doral-based customs broker shepherded the shipment of ventilators through US Customs in #Miami . The same company brought the shipment to the dump last afternoon on April 14th. The VP there says he isn’t authorized to make the importer’s information public. @WPLGLocal10
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7/ Medical equipment ie ventilators without approval - emergency use or otherwise - are not legal to use. Options: .1) take them out of the country . 2) trash them.Guess which is far less costly to do . Anyone with info on the importer? DMs are open!. @WPLGLocal10.
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3/The model number, ACM812A, indicates it’s an anesthesia ventilator. We found this broker’s listing👇🏼selling it for $26,000 US last spring, when ventilators were in shortt supply for an exploding number of #covid19 patients. @WPLGLocal10
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From Alex Rodriguez‘s attorney. arrest warrant shows he (the shill candidate) has been spilling the beans on Frank Artiles since the day police brought him in for questioning. @WPLGLocal10
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#Trump advisor, former #DIA director Gen. Michael Flynn : #Trump is honest & #media is not.#Debates2016 @WPLGLocal10
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6/ This is the FDA’s list of ventilators approved for emergency authorized use. There are 86 models. The Beijing Aerospace ChangFeng Ltd ACM812A is not listed among them:. @WPLGLocal10
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5/ A year ago March, as the nationwide scramble for ventilators ramped up, the FDA gave Emergency Use Authorization that allowed certain ventilator models to be repurposed for #covid19 patients . @WPLGLocal10
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Right now, at the Surfside condo collapse…. Hug the people you love tonight . @WPLGLocal10
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The rest of the story….The hand gesture👇🏼that got a #Miami police officer relieved of duty & an internal investigation into whether he flashed “white power”. Our wrap tonight @WPLGLocal10 #OneAndOnly ⏩
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South #Florida #covid infections ⬆️500% in the last month. Hospitalizations ⬆️300%.Who are the patients in the beds?.Eye-opening response from Dr. Robert Goldszer, Chief Medical Officer at Mount Sinai Medical Center on “This Week in South Florida” ⏩. #TWISF #ICYMI @WPLGLocal10
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Here’s the indictment, signed last Thu 4/15. outlines a charge that Superintendent Robert Runcie lied to the Florida Grand Jury about safety measures planned & funded in the wake of MSD murders. School Board atty Barbara Myrick also charged with disclosing .GJ info.@WPLGLocal10
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#Crescent #Moon & #Venus make quite the couple tonight.#iphonography + #Telescope .#Western #Sky #MiamiBeach
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On removing/replacing potential local officials (aka Broward Sheriff Scott Israel) ⏩
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In Nov ‘20, we found/revealed Alex Rodriguez, plant candidate who duped voters in a Florida senate race. Today he in a Miami courtroom testifying, star witness vs former senator Frank Artiles, accused mastermind financier (tho the scheme runs deep in GOP circles). @WPLGLocal10
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Heads up! … already signs that voters should be wary of fake/planted candidates on the ballot.… .More on “Moe” and Joe in the race for FL House 106 Miami Beach district▶️.@WPLGLocal10
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But wait! There’s more! Senate candidate Alex Rodriguez not only lied on his candidate filings, he lied to us! Thanks to a tip tonight, we learn the guy in our report who claimed to be a business partner is, yes . Alex Rodriguez!. Update @WPLGLocal10 11pm
. and. the rest of the story: .⏩. “Race for #Florida state Senate seat leads to questions about mysterious third candidate”.@WPLGLocal10.
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🚨Another twist to the money trail for the shill #Florida senate candidates:.Mystery company “Proclivity”, sole donor to 2 PACS funding the shills, vanished from campaign-finance records. Now “Grow United, Inc” is the contributor. (Good thing we kept screen shots).@WPLGLocal10 .
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Hello from the #COVID19 testing line in Sunny Isles Beach, where I had an 11:30 appt. & I am now on the 2nd line of the process. And thinking - why…. A thread 👇🏼.@WPLGLocal10
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Watching video of today’s waterspout tornado off Aventura gets to next-level here, with someone’s Jewish grandparents doing play-by-play ⏩. @WPLGLocal10 🌪😂
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Happening now .A statewide student walk-out becomes a walk-in at the Florida Capitol … high school students protesting the Parents Rights in Education Bill aka “Don’t Say Gay” . (Status: passed the House, Senate likely next week). @WPLGLocal10 #Tallahassee
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At this teachers conf, a Florida Dept of Education rep for the first time attempts to - explain? defend? clarify? - new African American History lessons that say enslaved people could “benefit” from skills. We were there by chance. No one has responded to our calls. @WPLGLocal10
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Updating here: We’ve been able to uncover some of the people, connections & money behind the apparent shill candidates in South #Florida state senate races (& a 3rd in central fl) . Our broadcast tonight ⏩ @WPLGLocal10.
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🚨 Breaking - we are with striking Port Miami workers as they learn their 3-day International Longshoremans Association strike is over. Details coming @WPLGLocal10 @PortMiami @PortEverglades @ILAUnion
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🚨#Florida Education Commish just sent Broward School Board Chr & Superintendent THE letter👇🏼.-opens “investigation of noncompliance” because of mask mandate.-demands response by end of day Friday that documents compliance or .-expect financial sanctions. @WPLGLocal10
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Preview of our 6pm report @WPLGLocal10 : .#Florida senate candidates in #Miami Dade who did no campaigning, no fundraising - who have dark money connections. Were they planted? to syphon votes from Democratic candidates?. A sample⏩
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Now - Gov. DeSantis 10:15 covid press conference is stalled - as aides face off with community members there. Ben Frazier - head of Northside Coalition of Jacksonville - taken into custody for trespassing ⏩. @WPLGLocal10
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Grateful to @washingtonpost for amplifying this info to every voter possible 👉🏼 @WPLGLocal10.
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Wall of the Missing.created by a friend of some unaccounted for in the Surfside condo collapse, outside the search & rescue task force tent. @WPLGLocal10
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🚨Nantucket alerted to possible Florida-sponsored migrant flight there Tuesday. Airport flagged a scheduled flight as having "many similarities" to the surprise flight that brought Venezuelans to Martha's Vineyard last month. The town posted this public notice👇🏼.@WPLGLocal10
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So this happened! - 🙏🏼🙏🏼Thankful to win an Emmy for our series of reports on the #Florida Shill Candidate Scheme 🎊🎉. @WPLGLocal10 with @nataliedevarona
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This is the first time we see what others have described ….👇🏼.Minutes before 1/2 of Champlain Towers South collapsed, Surfside vacationers recorded this - water & debris coming down in the garage. They didn’t understand why, & had no way to know. @WPLGLocal10
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President Trump takes the stage tossing #MAGA t-shirts . crowd is wild. Here we go . @thebbtcenter #homecoming .@WPLGLocal10 #TrumpRally #Sunrise #Florida
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We have so much more today on the (apparent) shill candidate that (apparently) skewed Florida Senate race D37. Alex Rodriguez (who lied to us here👇🏼) has lied before, has an arrest record, doesn’t even live in the district, is mired in debt. More - @WPLGLocal10 6pm
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The Marjory Stoneman Douglas parents running for Broward School Board are already game changers. This is Vanessa👇🏼who tells me she became a US citizen after 20 yrs here, just to vote for @rpetty & @lorialhadeff .@WPLGLocal10 .⏩
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Friends, we are beyond sad to share this news of a friend and colleague so full of life and love . so smart, talented and fun. This is one tough day . “Todd Tongen, beloved member of Local 10 family since 1989, dead at 56 “.
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Listen to Shabre Dansby, who said the increased police presence in Liberty Square is the only reason she’s outside with 3yo son Khalid today.@WPLGLocal10 #Miami
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Phone calls from @FLGovScott about Liberty Square mass shooting tonight listed below👇🏼.@MiamiMayor @FrancisSuarez tells me Gov offered assistance from state, no specifics. Mayor says he’ll get with @MiamiPD Chief to plan the ask.@WPLGLocal10
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Frank Artiles: Guilty. though the shill candidate scheme in Florida 2020 Senate race goes so much deeper: 3 shills, a roster of GOP operatives, Byzantine funding & PACs, FL electricity monopoly (remember FP&L‘s CEO resigned for some reason) & Artiles, a tool… . @WPLGLocal10
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The Gov had said the Combating Public Disorder (aka anti-riot) Law passed to prevent the kind of violence that happened *elsewhere* during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Yet here we are. And its 1st test are his supporters in Miami breaking it. Our wrap @WPLGLocal10⏩
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Shot to death this morning. A 3 year old girl. *THIS* is the kind of gun violence we have been reporting about for my. whole. career. Where is the outrage? Will it get attention now?? .@WPLGLocal10 #TWISF.
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🚨Breaking: North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo arrested … charges involve voting from an address where he did not live. Developing … @WPLGLocal10
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Re- Miami Dade voters claiming voter IDs changed from Democrat to Republican without their knowledge: 3 requests for investigations -.@MayorDaniella to the State Atty.@NikkiFriedFL to the DOJ.& first, >our @WPLGLocal10 report in Dec, @Annette_Taddeo to Florida Sec of State👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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What’s going on here, besides the made-for-cameras Miami arrest of Chicken Man… ?.A thread🧵, with more questions than answers at the moment, & video courtesy of @billycorben. @WPLGLocal10 1/
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People! I am newly eligible today🙌🏼 and headed to Overtown. I had this #covid19 #vaccine in my arm 12 minutes after I parked. Thanks to everyone at the Overtown walk-up for being awesome!. @WPLGLocal10 #Miami
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Sign of the times for Israelis - #Jerusalem is lined with these banners, in advance of the US Embassy move here. @WPLGLocal10
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👀Just now .A Fort Lauderdale federal jury finds Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo violated 1st Amendment rights of 2 city business owners, inc Bill Fuller of @BallAndChainBar .Damages exceed $60 million . Developing @WPLGLocal10 .
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“It’s to call bullsh**t…” .Hours before the Florida permit-less carry bill heads to the Senate floor, @senpizzo plays chess & files an amendment to allow firearms into lawmakers meetings at the Capitol . He said he’d considered an “open carry” amendment ▶️. @WPLGLocal10
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Huh? What does “woke” have to do with Florida insurance?🤷🏻♀️.Patronis came up with this dis👇🏼when Farmers became the latest to stop writing policies. because of market risk. (+ other co’s left FL, too).(+ Farmers cut back in wokey California, so there’s that). @WPLGLocal10.
We did what it took to help stabilize Florida’s insurance market. If they pull out of the Florida market but are still embracing ESG and DEI, we’re going to call them out on it.
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. and. the rest of the story: .⏩. “Race for #Florida state Senate seat leads to questions about mysterious third candidate”.@WPLGLocal10.
Preview of our 6pm report @WPLGLocal10 : .#Florida senate candidates in #Miami Dade who did no campaigning, no fundraising - who have dark money connections. Were they planted? to syphon votes from Democratic candidates?. A sample⏩
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Here’s the moment the crowd at the Ron DeSantis election party learned networks are calling the race for his reelection (plus the Tampa ballroom pic is on the air)⏩️. @WPLGLocal10
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Hello new Senator @IleanaGarciaUSA - I’ve left several phone messages, emailed, contacted your colleagues & your treasurer and also DM’d you here. Any chance at a call back or conversation? .Many Thanks, Glenna.
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They said they would & today they did - .Equality Florida ++ files the first lawsuit against the newly-signed Parents Rights in Education law .(aka by opponents as Don’t Say Gay). Read it @WPLGLocal10 👉🏼
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Video just in ▶️.How North Miami Beach City Attorney Hans Ottinot responded to questions about his job on the line, & stalling that & all the other business of the city … . He ran out .(during a commission meeting again w/o a quorum). @WPLGLocal10 NMB
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Required reading: @JaredEMoskowitz ‘s resignation letter to @GovRonDeSantis is a beautiful blueprint . “If only more people could put aside policy differences for the benefit of Americans we would be better off as a country. ”. @WPLGLocal10 #Florida
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Univ of Florida in full backpedal mode, now giving “outside pay” as reason it barred 3 profs from being expert witnesses in a lawsuit vs new state voting law. But that’s not the reason handed to professors👇🏼. @UF medical hire is now also FL’s paid Surgeon General. @WPLGLocal10
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The tradition continues… roll out of bed & onto the beach for the first sunrise of 2024. Wishing everyone love, light & beautiful new beginnings! 🫶🏼😘✨
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