A3 + PLUS >> 10 big issues to watch this legislative session, See 2A UF HOOPS CHS HOOPS Gators visit Tigers host S. Carolina Gainesville See Page 1B See Page 1B WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM O’BRIEN REPUBLICAN STAR AT FGC More charges for man in Huckabee extortion is music to scheme Trafficking in stolen property, trespassing. GOP’s ears By CARL MCKINNEY
[email protected] Wows crowd with humor, humility Less than a month after getting arrested over a — and hot licks on his bass guitar. failed blackmail scheme that invoked the Ku Klux Klan and By MICHAEL PHILIPS up the Republican Party or a political a Mexican
[email protected] candidate; I wanted it to be about lifting up our country,” she said. “I cartel, an In early fall of last year, when wanted it to be about lifting up God O’Brien Kimi Roberts, the event chairperson Almighty.” man land- for Columbia County’s Republican It wouldn’t be long before the per- ed behind Executive Committee, starting planning fect person become obvious: Former bars again, for the organization’s first event of 2020, Arkansas Governor and two-time presi- this time for she made a list of people who might dential candidate Mike Huckabee. And Madrid trespassing come speak in North Florida. When the the theme soon became obvious as well: onto an ex’s vetting of the list became difficult, she “God and Country.” Photos by CAMERON VINING/Special to LCR property and stealing an ATV, took to prayer.