Location: City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida Excerpt: Formal demand served on Fort Lauderdale City Attorney Shari L. McCartney identifying the facial inconsistency between the City’s heritage event portfolio — St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Las Olas Greek Festival, Caribbean-American Heritage events, Juneteenth programming, and ethnicity-referenced official proclamations — and § 166.04971. Demands a compliance review, written guidance to City …
Title: He Made DeSantis Rewrite the Book Ban Law. Now He’s Coming for Your Black and Tans. Location: City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida Excerpt: Press release announcing the Fort Lauderdale demand letter and 8-custodian omnibus PRR targeting the City’s support for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Las Olas Greek Festival, and Juneteenth programming. Frames the local angle for …
Title: He Made DeSantis Rewrite the Book Ban Law: Now He’s Coming for Calle Ocho. Location: City of Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida Excerpt: Press release announcing the Miami demand letter and 9-custodian PRR as the fourth action in 72 hours. Leads with the core irony: the Cuban-American community built Calle Ocho in 1978; their legislators voted for the law banning …
Fourth demand letter in the statewide campaign, served on Miami City Attorney George K. Wysong III, targeting the City’s structural entanglement with Calle Ocho Music Festival — the largest Hispanic street festival in the United States, organized by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana. Identifies three statutory prongs: official action (Mayor Suarez’s 2020 cancellation authority; February 2026 Calle Ocho BID resolution), public funding (police, fire, sanitation, permitting), and municipal promotion (City social media, tourism platforms, press materials). Accompanied by a 9-custodian omnibus Chapter 119 PRR covering the City Clerk, City Attorney, Special Events, Parks, Budget, Communications, MPD, Fire-Rescue/Public Works, and Economic Development.
Press release announcing the Pensacola demand letter as the third action in a coordinated statewide campaign, following demand letters to Broward County and City of Fort Lauderdale. Frames the Fiesta of Five Flags as a textbook SB 1134 trigger — the organizer’s own mission statement supplies the ethnic reference verbatim. Quotes Stevens on the “Malicious Compliance Express” and the political geometry of the Legislature banning the things it loves.
Formal demand served on Pensacola City Attorney Adam Cobb targeting the City’s decades-long municipal support for the Fiesta of Five Flags / Fiesta Pensacola — one of the oldest heritage festivals in Florida. The demand identifies three independent statutory triggers under § 166.04971: official action (the Mayor’s annual “Surrender of the City” ceremony), public funding (Downtown Pensacola Improvement Board payments, City service costs), and municipal promotion (Visit Pensacola). Demands a written compliance review, corrective action guidance, and production of public records within 30 days.