{"id":421485,"date":"2026-10-07T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421485\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:46:17","slug":"politically-motivated-why-florida-cant-remove-an-accused-sex-abuser-from-the-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421485\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICALLY MOTIVATED: Why Florida can&#8217;t remove an accused sex abuser from the November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf hdgIwY yVqjv\">On this week&#8217;s episode of Politically Motivated: A controversial political mailer is raising questions about Florida Republicans and former Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso \u2014 who remains on the November ballot despite allegations of child sexual abuse.<br \/>\nThe hosts explain the limitations of Florida law, why a candidate simply be removed from the ballot and everything voters should know if they want another option.<\/p>\n<p>PLUS, a breakdown on what changed on Byron Donalds\u2019 campaign website that has some wondering if there&#8217;s tension between he and the President and finally, as Orange County voters are being asked to renew the one-mill property tax that generates roughly $255 million a year for public schools, one major group is saying NO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM On this week&#8217;s episode of Politically Motivated: A controversial political mailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,166366],"class_list":["post-421485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-politically-motivated-why-florida-cant-remove-an-accused-sex-abuser-from-the-november-ballot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421485","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=421485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}