CITRUS CRUSADER

By John Labriola - The Citrus, Lake and Osceola County School Boards faced angry parents demanding answers last week about a recent settlement between the State of Florida and the LGBTQ group Equality Florida that will weaken the Parental Rights in Education Act. Although the settlement leaves the act in place, it provides a roadmap for activist teachers to violate the original intent of the law, including by allowing LGBTQ-promoting "safe space" stickers, student cross-dressing, and even discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, as long as they are not part of formal "instruction." In Citrus County, parents urged school board members not to allow rainbow flags, stickers or other ideological displays that distract from a healthy learning environment. "I would encourage the board as they consider how to implement the settlement into this district, that they would look at not allowing personal ideologies – the flags, the safe spa

By John Labriola - You may have heard that the Citrus County Chronicle is stopping home delivery as of April 1 and cutting back publication to just five days a week. When the Chronicle announced the news last month, Executive Editor Jim Gouvellis tried to put a happy face on this major downsizing by framing it as a "strategic move" to embrace "adaptability" in "meeting our audience where they are."  No wonder the Chronicle has been nicknamed the "Comical." The truth is that the Chronicle is hemorrhaging subscribers and can't afford to keep delivering its questionable product to the dwindling number of readers who are willing to continue paying more and more to receive their news through a highly biased liberal lens. But instead of offering a mea culpa for failing to reflect or even respect the values of its overwhelmingly conservative market, the Chronicle – in typical dishonest fashion – is spinning its move to drastically scale back operati

By John Labriola - Citrus County is one of the most Republican counties in Florida. According to the Citrus County Supervisor of Elections website, registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the county by a nearly 3-1 margin. That makes it essentially impossible to get elected as a Democrat here, which is why virtually all Citrus County candidates – including far-left LGBT activists like County Commissioner Holly Davis – run as Republicans, even if they don’t govern that way. Ken Walters, president of the Crystal Oaks Republican Club and a member of the Citrus County Republican Executive Committee (REC), says the party has a "Rodney Dangerfield" problem because it doesn’t get any respect from Citrus County politicians who use the “Republican” label to get elected and then abandon their voters.   At the REC’s monthly meeting in February, Walters sponsored a resolution condemning the multiple politically motivated prosecutions and civil trials against Donald Trump orchestrat

Once again, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all those who've continued to donate to my  GiveSendGo fundraising page to help me take back my stolen domain.  Between your online donations and personal checks, I've raised nearly $3,000 so far toward my legal fight to take back the Citrus Crusader website name!  Read more about it HERE . (Since only online donations show up on the donations progress bar, I reduced the original goal amount by the total check donations.)

By John Labriola -  I wanted to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the many generous supporters who have donated on GiveSendGo following my Feb. 6 request for financial help in our fight to take back our stolen domain. As the liberal Citrus County Chronicle gleefully reported last month, a local Democrat activist stole the Citrus Crusader domain name to start a website which she's using to sell T-shirts promoting the LGBT agenda, abortion, and the Biden campaign – basically everything we're against.  I've been speaking with a local attorney about taking our case to an arbitrator to stop this woman from fraudulently using the Citrus Crusader domain and name to enrich herself while pushing her leftist agenda. The great news is that in the less than two weeks since launching our GiveSendGo fundraising page , we've already raised over $1,300 toward our $7,500 goal! That goes a long way toward getting the process started, so thank you again to everyone w

The Citrus County Commission will meet this Tuesday at 5 p.m. to discuss Hampton Hills LLC’s request for a zoning change in Lecanto that would bring more residential development to the area.                                                     Hampton Hills wants to modify the zoning on 24 acres off Scarboro Avenue from medium density with mobile homes to a planned unit development with single-family homes. The change would allow for construction of up to eight single-family homes per acre. A county staff analysis states that the project is higher in density than an adjacent development, where lots average five acres in size, but the memo concludes the proposed development is compatible with the surrounding area because of a nearby subdivision that features smaller lot sizes. Local residents disagree and are mobilizing against the project, saying it will bring overdevelpment to their neighborhood. The county’s Planning and Development Commission approved the rezoning request by a 4-3 vo

.  By John Labriola -  As you may have heard, a local liberal Democrat activist has stolen the Citrus Crusader domain name in order to enrich herself and sabotage our mission to take Citrus County back from the liberal elites. Last week, the Citrus County Chronicle gave free front-page publicity to this woman's new website, which illicitly uses the Citrus Crusader name to sell T-shirts attacking me and promoting the LGBT agenda, abortion, and the Biden campaign – the opposite of everything we stand for.  Besides fraudulently cashing in on the Citrus Crusader name, this woman's mission is to steer Internet traffic away from the real Citrus Crusader blog, which I launched over two years ago to keep Citrus County conservative residents informed and mobilized in the fight to preserve our county's small-town conservative Christian character.  This latest attack is no surprise. The liberal powers that be who are now backing this woman have been taking shots at the Citrus Crusader