{"id":130224,"date":"2025-08-08T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:01:12","slug":"jacksonville-councilmember-accuses-mayor-deegan-of-misusing-funds-united-way-mayor-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130224\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville councilmember accuses Mayor Deegan of misusing funds; United Way, mayor respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A Jacksonville city councilmember accused Mayor Donna Deegan of attempting to improperly route city funds through a local nonprofit for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) purposes \u2014 an allegation the mayor and United Way both strongly deny.<br \/>\nDistrict 13 Councilman Rory Diamond, a Republican, raised the allegation Thursday morning on his personal Facebook page. In the post, he accused Mayor Deegan of trying to \u201claunder\u201d $237,000 in DEI funds through the United Way of Northeast Florida.<br \/>\nThe post came about an hour before Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia appeared at Jacksonville City Hall to speak about DEI programs in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A Jacksonville city councilmember accused Mayor Donna Deegan of attempting to improperly route city funds through a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,5310,3188,723,7310,48344,10177,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-130224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-mayor-donna-deegan","14":"tag-rory-diamond","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}