The Impact of Christian Elected Leaders In Tallahassee’s Local Government
“Honest intentions dread not a public cognizance.” – Matthew Henry Recent information on City Director of Strategic Innovation Thomas Whitley surfaced. The information shook not just the local government but also our Christian neighbors. Since publishing our original post on this topic, we are hearing from many of our Christian neighbors. Many speaking to a […]
On Tour, On Taxpayer Money
*Information discovered in this story is vulgar in nature, some may find offense so please protect your peace. Taxpayers fund Thomas Whitley’s adulterous endeavors far and wide. Whitley redefines “strategic innovation” in 2023 when he listed his tour dates in his Feeld account. Feeld is an app in which adults can meet up with similar […]
“No One Can Compete With Us”
Tallahassee leaders gathered at City Hall for a regularly scheduled commission meeting. Congratulations in handling the storm were exchanged and City Manager Reese Goad proudly stated “no one can compete with us.” Two major historic hurricanes made landfall in a couple of weeks. Linemen across the state, and even country, began working tirelessly to restore […]
When School Executives Receive Large Raises, What Is The Impact?
When Rocky Hanna gives raises, he gives big. At least to School executives. The average percent increase for a non-union American was 3.8% last year. According to the Pay Type 9 document, that our neighbor Joe Burgess published, one employees received a 32% raise in one year in the same position. The next year she […]
The Impact of Central Staff Reclassification
Leon County Schools superintendent, Rocky Hanna, defended the increase in central staff spending at the last School Board meeting. He states that the increase in number and in spending is due to reclassification of employees. This defense is a result of a Public Records Request that Superintendent candidate, Joe Burgess, published earlier this week. The […]
Why “Ghost” Candidate In Our Local Elections Matter
Before we began FloridaCapitalTea, our team had varying degrees of interest in local politics. Some of us knew nothing and followed nothing. So when we first started to hear about “ghost” candidates from Valerie Crowder one of our team members asked, “So why does this matter?” On the surface, this appears to be a colossal […]
Text Messages Reveal Entanglement of Grow Tallahassee and City Commissioners
The Origin of Grow Tallahassee We discovered text messages between Curtis Richardson’s Aide and Bugra Demirel. We discovered that Richardson and his aide were confidants and possibly collaborators in the founding of Grow Tallahassee. They have been in correspondence with each other since the founding of Grow Tallahassee back to May 2020. Due to who […]
Taking A Closer Look At The Magistrate’s Ruling
FloridaCapitalTea takes a closer look at the Magistrate’s ruling. We respect the ruling of the magistrate, although his report raises some questions for us. While we don’t know his all his thoughts on this ruling, we will try to understand the best we can. The Subjective Material In The Magistrate’s Ruling The beginning of this […]
Our Relationship With The Florida League of Cities
The City of Tallahassee is a Proud member of Florida League of Cities (FLC). Mayor Dailey, Diane Williams-Cox, and Reese Goad received a “Home Rule” Award from this organization. After the award was presented, FloridaCapitalTea wanted to know more about this organization we are associated with. According to their website https://www.flcities.com/about-pages/about they have been a […]
Our Firefighter’s 175 Money: Why The City Wants It
This past weekend the City Scheduled two impromptu meetings for our firefighter’s three year contract. The meetings were added to the calendar on Monday, a holiday. This brings up the question: Did the city provide enough public notice of this meeting? During both these meetings the City stated they wanted the firefighters to sign over […]
A Summary of The Firefighters One Year Contract
We are awaiting a ruling from the special magistrate in the Arbitration case between our Firefighters and The City of Tallahassee for the firefighters one year contract. Since March of 2024 our Firefighters have been in prolonged negotiations In the past year our firefighters have had 22 meetings with the City. Near the end of […]
A New Generation, A New School Structure
FloridaCapitalTea wanted to know if our current school structure works for our Tallahassee families. We reached out to you with a survey a few weeks ago and compiled the responses. We ran this survey for about one week and received 76 responses. Prior to Covid, there were cracks in the foundation of our school system. […]
A Hard Decision Needs To Be Made Quickly: LCS
Leon County Schools was faced with a hard decision at the end of this week. Close the Schools for a Florida storm or remain open. The last time the Schools closed for a storm, the storm was minor. Parents were angry that the schools closed for seemingly no reason. However, the opposite occurred on Friday […]
Dorothy “Dot” Inman-Johnson For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Dorothy “Dot” Inman-Johnson. Looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference, we explored her campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled her name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your own research […]
Curtis Richardson For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Curtis Richardson. Looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference, we explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your own research on […]
Bernard Stevens Jr For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Bernard Stevens Jr. We are looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference. We explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your […]
Rocky Hanna For School Superintendent
We set out to research who Rocky Hanna is by looking at various sources on the internet and compiling into one spot for our ability to quicky reference. We explored his campaign page, Social Media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your […]
Joseph “Joe” Burgess For School Superintendent
We set out to research who Joe Burgess is by looking at various sources on the internet and compiling into one spot for our ability to quicky reference. We explored his campaign page, Social Media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your […]
Genleah “Star” Swain For School Superintendent
We set out to research who Genleah “Star” Swain is by looking at various sources on the internet and compiling into one spot for our ability to quicky reference. We explored her campaign page, Social Media sites, and finally we Googled her name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do […]
The OPE: Three City Employees Simultaneously Receive Salary And Pension
After playing the game long enough, a small select few within The City of Tallahassee have discovered the cheat code category OPE. OPE category is short for Other Personnel Expenses. A category so hidden that when 850CapitlTea searched for a description on the City of Tallahassee webpage, we were directed to the 2024 adopted budget. […]
