{"id":351235,"date":"2026-07-24T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351235\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:14:09","slug":"jeremy-matlows-campaign-manager-resigns-amid-controversy-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351235\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Matlow\u2019s Campaign Manager Resigns Amid Controversy \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Matlow-Kris.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n                                Matlow 02 26 &#8211; 1                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/07\/23\/jeremy-matlow-campaign-manager-tied-to-fake-facebook-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Following an exclusive story by Tallahassee Reports,<\/a> the campaign manager for Tallahassee mayoral candidate Jeremy Matlow, Kristellys Estanga, has resigned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estanga is also the campaign manager for PJ Perez, a candidate for city commisison seat 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TR published a story on Thursday implicating the Matlow campaign in a political operation that used a fake Facebook page to make it look like a Tallahassee conservative group was attacking Talietha Edwards, a black candidate running for city commission seat 3. Matlow is backing PJ Perez for the seat and viewed Edwards as competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement by Estanga, provided below, she admitted she was behind the fake Facebook page and said she act alone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, sources tell TR the operation was a \u201cteam effort\u201d and more people than Estanga were involved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TR is working on confirming Matlow\u2019s role in the controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estanga Statement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-at-11.05.16-AM.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-24-at-11.05.16-AM-762x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246045\" style=\"width:720px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>                        <img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784909649_755_a3a0aa1abb3a437c31d2fcb36e3daa871ab962337aec6126509e2dc7f6bf9bd1.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matlow 02 26 &#8211; 1 Following an exclusive story by Tallahassee Reports, the campaign manager for Tallahassee mayoral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-351235","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\/351235","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=351235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}