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The daily rundown Between Sunday and Monday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 3,480 (nearly 0.2 percent), to 2,085,306; active hospitalizations increased by 123 (nearly 4.3 percent), to 2,988; deaths of Florida residents rose by 36 (0.1 percent), to 33,710; 6,357,049 Floridians have received at least one dose of a vaccine.
Come as you are Greetings from Okaloosa County, smack in the heart of Florida’s 1st Congressional District a seat held by Rep. Matt Gaetz.
In bloom On Monday, Gaetz and his allies continued to mount a counteroffensive to the federal investigation into whether the 38-year-old congressman violated federal human trafficking laws and had an improper relationship with a 17-year-old girl.
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The petition, which is being signed in-person during the pandemic, so far has a few hundred signatures, and organizers said they hope to get a thousand. Larry Hetu, a Gulf Breeze resident, is helping to get the petition around and said the cause could have important long-term implications for Santa Rosa County.
“We think this can establish ourselves as being the destination for conservative persons and patriots,” Hetu said.
Newly installed Commissioner James Calkins so far is the only board member to enthusiastically support the renaming, calling it a “great idea.”
“There are lots of things named around the country after presidents, and this area, Santa Rosa County, voted for Donald Trump very strongly,” Calkins told the News Journal on Monday. “I think it’s a fantastic idea and it would be good for our county. After this was brought up, I talked to multiple business owners, multiple people, and I’m getting enthusiastic support for it.”