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enhanced_deficit
12-17-2016, 11:10 AM
Not sure if "Trump affect" caused this to become public but this funding was kept secret for a year:


Wikileaks: Clinton Camp Entertained Having Pitbull Produce a Hillary Song


Hillary Clinton’s Early Lead Attributed To Official Endorsement From Rapper Pitbull

It is predicted that Clinton will win by a landslide.

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Hillary-Pitbull.jpg

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/world-news/hillary-clintons-early-lead-attributed-to-official-endorsement-from-rapper-pitbull/





Visit Florida CEO agrees to resign, two other top executives leave jobs following news of Pitbull $1M deal

December 16, 2016

TALLAHASSEE – Visit Florida CEO Will Seccombe agreed to resign Friday and two other top executives with the tourism promotion group left their jobs in the wake of revelations the agency paid Miami rapper Pitbull $1 million to market tourism in the state.

Gov. Rick Scott called for Seccombe resignation and a series of transparency measures in a letter to Visit Florida board chairman William Talbert.
"I believe it would be best for the future efforts of Visit Florida for Will to step down and allow new leadership to come in at this critical time," Scott wrote.
Visit Florida’s chief operating officer Vangie Fields and chief marketing officer Paul Phipps resigned Friday. Seccombe "will be working with the Visit Florida Board of Directors on next steps," in the coming weeks, spokesman Tim DeClaire wrote in an email.
Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Christian Perez, posted his 2015 contract with the state on Twitter on Thursday, revealing he was paid $1 million in taxpayer dollars to promote Florida in social media posts, at his concerts and in a music video called “Sexy Beaches.”
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Caption Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs


The move came two days after House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’Lakes, filed suit in Leon Circuit Court against PDR Productions, Pitbull’s management company, to unveil contract details, which had been kept secret for more than a year.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-scott-visit-florida-resignation-story.html