GOP Tries To Use Gillum’s Hamilton Ticket Debacle As Battering Ram

TAMPA, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 21: Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum speaks during a CNN debate against his Republican opponent Ron DeSantis, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. (Photo by Chris O'M... TAMPA, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 21: Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum speaks during a CNN debate against his Republican opponent Ron DeSantis, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. (Photo by Chris O'Meara-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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On Tuesday, text messages were published that show that Democratic governor candidate Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum accepted tickets to see “Hamilton” on Broadway from an undercover FBI agent who was spearheading an investigation into the city’s economic development agency, according to a Tuesday Politico report.

Gillum says he believed that the tickets, obtained by FBI agent Adam Corey, were purchased by his brother.

“I didn’t take free trips from anybody,” Gillum said during a debate with Republican candidate Ron DeSantis. “I’m a hardworking person. I know that may not fit your description of what you think people like me do. But I’ve worked hard for everything that I’ve gotten in my life, and I don’t need anybody handing me anything for free.”

Republicans are trying to use the texts to paint Gillum as unethical.

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  1. Republicans are trying to use the texts to paint Gillum as unethical.

    Almost pitiful.

  2. Now this is a smack down…

    “I’m a hardworking person. I know that may not fit your description of what you think people like me do. But I’ve worked hard for everything that I’ve gotten in my life, and I don’t need anybody handing me anything for free.”

    Well done Mayor Gillum

  3. In other smears, the GOP attacked Beto O’Rourke for using a Canadian quarter, and offered CCTV footage proving that Heidi Heitkamp left a Chinese take-away with an unwarranted number of duck sauce packets.

  4. Avatar for jte jte says:

    Getting tickets to Hamilton now counts as an ethics scandal according to Republicans? Have they seen their goddamn President? So long as Trump is in office, Democrats should feel free to appear in public with dead girls, live boys, and any other gift, kickback or piece of swag they feel like.

    The word chutzpah has lost all meaning.

  5. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    NOW… if he had purchased 50 or 60 thousand dollars worth of tickets for his friends that would have been fine.

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