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Zorro

(18,062 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 07:23 PM Oct 9

State investigators visit Largo man who sent postcard critical of Florida's CFO

The postcard read: “You lack values.”

Two armed men wearing bulletproof vests with the word “police” stenciled on them showed up Wednesday at the Largo home of Cathy O’Gara while she was getting her 11-year-old granddaughter ready for school.

Dogs were barking. There was a loud knock at the door. She greeted the men, who didn’t identify themselves or the agency they were with. They asked if her husband, James O’Gara, lived there and if they could speak to him about a postcard he’d sent to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia with the brief message: “You lack values.”

It was a scary “big red flag moment” for the O’Garas, a retired couple who are politically active supporters of progressive candidates, vocal critics of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, and who helped to organize a local No Kings anti-Trump demonstration in June.

“Anything is possible, if you can send a postcard and have this happen,” Cathy O’Gara said.

Days after the visit — with the help of the Largo Police Department — they learned that the officers were investigators with the criminal division of the state’s Department of Financial Services, which is overseen by Ingoglia.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/10/08/ingoglia-postcard-largo-investigators-political-violence-threat/
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State investigators visit Largo man who sent postcard critical of Florida's CFO (Original Post) Zorro Oct 9 OP
How long until they "investigate" DU posts? Midnight Writer Oct 9 #1
What makes you think they haven't? JoseBalow Oct 9 #2

JoseBalow

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2. What makes you think they haven't?
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 08:52 PM
Oct 9

And how would we know if they did? Would Admin let us know about it?

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