Tallahassee City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow\u2019s aide, Ryan Ray, created a political website in 2024 and is now using the site during his bosses\u2019 run for mayor of Tallahassee to criticize Matlow\u2019s opponents \u2013 Loranne Ausley and Daryl Parks \u2013 and to support candidates friendly to the progressive movement.<\/p>\n
Ray is paid approximately $90,000 annually by the city of Tallahassee and is also the head of the Leon County Democratic party.<\/p>\n
When recently asked about his connection to the site he denied any current involvement but added that there are a number of people running the site. However, sources have told TR Ray is the main force behind the site.<\/p>\n
Also, days after TR questioned Ray, he authored a story on the site critical of TR.<\/p>\n
The Florida New Signal Criticize Ausley, Parks<\/p>\n
The website, www, flnewsignal.com, was created by Ray in 2024 with the goal to be a \u201cnews site to cover the Sunshine State.\u201d However, a review of the site shows little content related to \u201cSunshine State\u201d cities other than Tallahassee.<\/p>\n
The home page shows tabs for Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Miami. However, a review of the site\u2019s 2026 content shows 12 stories related to Tallahassee politics, one story related to Gainesville, and no stories under the Miami tab.<\/p>\n
In addition, the Tallahassee stories are focused on supporting Matlow, PJ Perez and Dot Inman-Johnson and criticizing fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n
For example, a recent story criticized Matlow\u2019s opponents, Loranne Ausley and Daryl Parks, response to a question about LGBTQ rights. <\/p>\n
In another post, related to city commission seat 3, an article states that a Democrat candidate was \u201chonored by the Tallahassee Chamber several times\u201d and was \u201cChambered Up\u201d as a way to smear the candidate and support the progressive\u2019s preferred candidate, PJ Perez. <\/p>\n
Ryan Ray\u2019s Activities<\/p>\n
Over the years there has been a number of critical questions raised about the Ray\u2019s activities given his compensated duties with the city of Tallahassee and his role with the Leon County Democratic Party. His recent activities related to Matlow\u2019s run for mayor raises these questions once again.<\/p>\n
Is Ray\u2019s political activities funded by his $90,000 a year city of Tallahassee salary?<\/p>\n
Does his boss, Matlow approve of these activities?<\/p>\n
And as the head of the Leon Democratic Party, is his criticism of other Democratic candidates in favor of Matlow a violation of party rules?<\/p>\n
TR will continue to investigate this issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow\u2019s aide, Ryan Ray, created a political website in 2024 and is now using…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-334786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334786","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=334786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}