{"id":172649,"date":"2026-02-28T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:11:27","slug":"peluso-asks-carrico-to-step-down-temporarily-amid-text-controversy-carrico-calls-him-drama-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172649\/","title":{"rendered":"Peluso asks Carrico to step down temporarily amid text controversy; Carrico calls him \u2018Drama Queen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/top_stories\/\" title=\"View more stories about top stories\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"top stories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville City Council member Jimmy Peluso is calling on Council President Kevin Carrico to temporarily step aside from his leadership position while records are being reviewed following a subpoena tied to Carrico\u2019s communications about JEA.  In a letter to Carrico, Peluso said the request is about protecting public trust as the State Attorney\u2019s Office seeks a wide range of Carrico\u2019s records connected to the ongoing controversy surrounding a JEA board appointment and the \u201cbig favor\u201d text message exchange that sparked public scrutiny. In response, Carrico called Peluso the &#8220;biggest Drama Queen on City Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0February 26, 2026 at 10:08 PM Tags:\u00a0top stories Jacksonville City Council member Jimmy Peluso is calling on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,278],"class_list":["post-172649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172649","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=172649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}