Tallahassee has been ablaze with reports, social media posts and public statements regarding behind-the-scenes negotiations on the Florida State University\/Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare partnership.<\/p>\n
Outlets like the Tallahassee Democrat have reported on Grow Tallahassee\u2019s Bugra Demirel of conducting polls<\/a> some say are being used to influence public opinion. Emerging political blogs<\/a> have published articles criticizing other political blog\u2019s coverage<\/a> of prominent officials. Rumors that a special tax district to fund part of it arose that had political figures including State Rep. Allison Tant criticizing online<\/a>, accusing Grow Tallahassee of doing behind-the-scenes tactics including the push-poll. The conversation about that potential tax district<\/a> was quickly snuffed out in a joint statement from Florida State University and TMH.<\/p>\n WFSU\u2019s Tristan Wood spoke to both Rep. Tant<\/a> and Demirel<\/a> to get their perspectives on what has been going on, as well as what direction they think the TMH\/FSU partnership should go in. The conversations were edited down for brevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee has been ablaze with reports, social media posts and public statements regarding behind-the-scenes negotiations on the Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-45651","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\/45651","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=45651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}