"Gillum withdraws from politics after link to suspected drug overdose". Politico PRO. Retrieved March 17, 2020. ^ Jeff Burlew (March 13, 2020). "Andrew Gillum linked to meth overdose incident in Miami hotel, police reports state".
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Gillum is in favor of a 2018 ballot proposition, Amendment 4, to restore the voting rights of most individuals who have completed felony convictions. Gillum said, "Floridians who have paid their debts deserve a second chance and they should have a voice in our state’s future.
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Official website. Andrew Demese Gillum (born July 26, 1979) is an American former politician who served as the 126th mayor of Tallahassee. He served as a Tallahassee city commissioner from 2003 until 2014, first elected at the age of 23. In 2018, Gillum was the nominee of the Florida Democratic Party for Governor of Florida.
Gillum graduated from Florida A&M University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.
The couple have three children. In March 2020, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that Gillum was one of three men, one of whom was suffering from a drug overdose, who were found with "plastic baggies of suspected crystal meth" in a hotel room in Miami Beach; however, no arrests were made.
Gillum was elected mayor of Tallahassee in 2014.
On the heels of the Summit on Children, Gillum launched four community-led task forces as part of his Family First Agenda; these task forces, which Gillum introduced at the Summit, examine: Improved Quality and Affordable Child Care, Family Friendly Workplaces and Culture, Greater Community Investments in Children and Families, and Resources and Training for Parents and Families. Gillum stressed that investments in early childhood education have been proven to return six dollars for every one dollar invested; this is due to lowering community costs on those children as they grow older.
Gillum served as president of the FAMU Student Government Association from 2001–2002 and was the first student member of the FAMU Board of Trustees. He was recognized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation as "emerging leader for 2003". Gillum was also a board member of the Black Youth Vote Coalition, a program of the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation in Washington, D.C. Gillum was elected to the Tallahassee City Commission prior to the completion of his college studies.
In February 2017, Gillum apologized after the Tallahassee Democrat reported that his government office had been used to send emails through web-based software purchased by NGP VAN, a company that provides technology to Democratic and progressive campaigns. An investigation into the emails started after Paul Henry, a retired state trooper from Monticello, wrote State Attorney Jack Campbell in March to allege Gillum committed grand theft and official misconduct by paying for the software with city funds when he believed they served no public purpose. A Leon County grand jury cleared Gillum of any wrongdoing.
Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum has suspended his campaign for governor of Florida.
Andrew Gillum announced he would be temporarily leaving the campaign trail and returning to Tallahassee in the wake of a shooting at a yoga studio in that city.
On 2 November 2018, a man opened fire at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, killing two people and injuring five others before fatally shooting himself. The gunman was later identifies as Scott Paul Beierle, 40, of Deltona, Florida.
A good-looking, well-liked Black Southerner, the 41-year-old Gillum had risen steadily from city commissioner to statewide candidate and celebrated resistance darling with a seemingly unlimited future. Even after he lost the governor’s race, his name was among the handful frequently floated as a potential vice presidential pick. Then it all came crashing down.
After college, Andrew spent months failing to become more than a friend: He got her number from a mutual acquaintance, but she never called him back; he gave her his number after running into her at the mall, but she never called.
How Andrew Gillum’s Marriage Survived a Night of Scandal. The rising Democratic star was found in a Miami Beach hotel with a male sex worker and suspected drugs. To keep their marriage together, he and his wife, R. Jai, had to embrace a new dynamic of “radical honesty” in their relationship. This story is part of GQ’s Modern Lovers issue.
She was a gubernatorial fellow with the state health department, so Andrew showed up at her job, approaching her at an event at the governor’s mansion to plead for a chance to talk. Before long they were back together for good, and it was time for Andrew to reveal something important about himself.
The Gillums said they began having a series of difficult conversations—he answered any and all questions she had about Miami; she confided that she’d started moving money into a separate account to prepare for a divorce.
Lynne Sladky/AP/Shutterstock. Though his political fortunes were rising in Florida, Andrew Gillum hadn’t planned to run for governor. He had spent the better part of 2016 campaigning for Hillary Clinton and thought there could be a potential role in her administration for him.
According to the document, an incapacitated Gillum had been found by police in a Miami Beach hotel room with a male sex worker, baggies that the cops suspected contained crystal meth and other narcotics, and a third man, who had called 911.