Familiar tactics: Yep, the FBI did f*ck Andrew Gillum

The breaking news out of the Capital City is that a federal grand jury has indicted city Commissioner Scott Maddox on public corruption charges, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

Also indicted was Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority Executive Director Paige Carter-Smith.

Carter-Smith allegedly helped Maddox in an ongoing scheme to solicit bribes from companies seeking to do business with the city of Tallahassee.

Not indicted — at least not as of this morning — is former Mayor Andrew Gillum.

But isn’t that what Gillum has said all along? That the federal investigation of the City of Tallahassee was not about him.

But that investigation — and the whispers that Gillum could be indicted before his inauguration as Governor — haunted Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign, especially in the general election.

More than a quarter of the $26 million Republicans spent on TV ahead of the general directly attacked Gillum by invoking the investigation.

There is little doubt that one of the main reasons Gillum lost was because of the looming shadow of the federal investigation.

His opponent, now-Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, continued hammering Gillum throughout the campaign over his connection to the investigation, which included trips to New York and Costa Rica and meetings with undercover FBI agents. DeSantis called him “Crooked Mayor Gillum.”

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