{"id":168352,"date":"2026-02-25T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168352\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:19:14","slug":"carrico-addresses-big-favor-wording-amid-jea-controversy-says-there-is-no-quid-pro-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168352\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrico addresses \u2018big favor\u2019 wording amid JEA controversy; says there is \u2018no quid pro quo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville City Council President Kevin Carrico is calling for an independent, outside review of allegations involving leadership and workplace culture at JEA, while also responding directly to questions about the \u201cbig favor\u201d wording in text messages tied to a JEA board appointment.<br \/>\nCarrico spoke with News4JAX after a day of tense public meetings \u2014 first at JEA headquarters, then at City Hall \u2014 where the debate expanded from who should sit on the JEA board to whether there should be an external look at claims about management and employee morale.<br \/>\nReporter Chris Will has the latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Jacksonville City Council President Kevin Carrico is calling for an independent, outside review of allegations involving leadership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[832,1039,116,118,117,5896],"class_list":["post-168352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-council","tag-duval-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kevin-carrico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168352","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=168352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}