{"id":352963,"date":"2026-07-26T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352963\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:20:09","slug":"sentinel-text-to-orlando-mayor-buddy-dyer-on-historic-grant-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352963\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel Text to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer on Historic Grant Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Orlando Sentinel text message to Mayor Buddy Dyer on historic grant funding was obtained and the newspaper actually asked for his permission to share with the news department.<\/p>\n

When the City of Orlando decided to benefit developers over historic preservation, the state of Florida warned it could lose millions of dollars in historic grant funding.<\/p>\n

The local newspaper, which has long covered for Mayor Dyer\u2019s spin, showed how gently they treat the Democratic elected official even on important matters like possibly destroying downtown historic preservation rules and jeopardizing state funding. The Orlando City Council voted for a three-year moratorium to temporarily allow developers to bypass certain historic preservation rules in the downtown area per Dyer\u2019s desire.<\/p>\n

West Orlando News requested all of Dyer\u2019s text mesaages to Sentinel during the time period, and any responses he received. The City of Orlando provided the text thread.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSorry to bug you on a Saturday,\u201d the Orlando Sentinel text to Mayor Dyer started, before adding \u201cYikes\u201d about a letter from the state on historic grant funding due to Dyer\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

Yes, so sorry that the Orlando Mayor is expected to work and be available even on a Saturday.<\/p>\n

Buddy Dyer did respond to the Orlando Sentinel, but even after putting his response in writing, the Sentinel asked his permission to share it with the news department. Why would the Orlando Sentinel need the Mayor\u2019s permission to share a written response sent to them with their own news department? Very odd behavior for a supposed news organization who should have the community\u2019s interest and transparency as a higher priority than protecting the Mayor\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for getting back to me!!\u201d the Sentinel response stated. \u201cDo you mind if I share your text with the news department?\u201d<\/p>\n

It shows the influence and power Mayor Dyer has over the Orlando Sentinel and it indicates the local newspaper fears Dyer and wants to stay on his \u201cgood side\u201d even if there is a story to report to the community. First, they must receive his permission apparently. Residents should consider that when reading anything reported by the Orlando Sentinel on the city and Mayor Dyer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of course, the rubber stamp City Council voted with Mayor Dyer to approve easing downtown historic preservation rules in favor of developers, which will take effect in August. Commissioner Patty Sheehan, who is typically a strong Dyer ally, actually voted against his proposal but despite her efforts, what Buddy Dyer wants, Buddy Dyer gets with the current local elected commissioners \u2013 and apparently with the Orlando Sentinel as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orlando Sentinel text message to Mayor Buddy Dyer on historic grant funding was obtained and the newspaper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8132,44843,14851,30531,1375,47044,139,141,140,16741,6329,5516],"class_list":["post-352963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-buddy-dyer","tag-democratic","tag-funding","tag-historic","tag-mayor","tag-newspaper","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-sentinel","tag-preservation","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352963","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=352963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}