Fishback hearing: Threats, insults, and admission of D.C. voting, property

By: Liv Caputo

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: July 21, 2026

Words: 922

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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During a Leon County hearing to decide whether gubernatorial candidate James Fishback should be booted from the ballot, Fishback threatened to imprison the lieutenant governor’s senior adviser, one of his supporters challenged the staffer to a courthouse fight, and Fishback acknowledged voting and buying a home in Washington, D.C.

It was a theatrical, nearly eight-hour hearing before Circuit Judge David Frank to decide first whether Fishback had maintained a primary residence outside Florida during the …

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