{"id":163458,"date":"2026-02-21T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:27:08","slug":"how-big-favor-texts-sparked-a-jea-board-shakeup-and-allegations-about-utility-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163458\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018big favor\u2019 texts sparked a JEA board shakeup and allegations about utility leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">What started as a dispute over a JEA board appointment and text messages referencing a \u201cbig favor\u201d has now widened into a broader fight over leadership at Jacksonville\u2019s publicly owned utility and who is trying to influence it.<br \/>\nThe latest twist came Friday, when Mayor Donna Deegan, JEA Board Chair Joe DiSalvo, and JEA CEO Vickie Cavey appeared together at a press conference to push back on allegations and what they described as outside pressure targeting Cavey and JEA\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS What started as a dispute over a JEA board appointment and text messages referencing a \u201cbig favor\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[832,116,118,117,501,5896,15853],"class_list":{"0":"post-163458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-jea","13":"tag-kevin-carrico","14":"tag-mayor-donna-deegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}