# Jason Garcia Florida's leading corporate-accountability reporter and the writer of **Seeking Rents**, a one-person Substack newsletter and podcast on how businesses shape public policy in Florida, from city halls to the Capitol. Before going independent he reported for the *Orlando Sentinel*, including "Big Profits, Tiny Taxes" on corporate tax avoidance and a 2021 series on dark money behind ghost candidates in state Senate races. The newsletter lives at jasongarcia.substack.com. **seekingrents.com is a parked domain** (checked 2026-10-03). ## Why the vault tracks him Garcia covers the state-level machinery the national press tends to skip: budget earmarks, bill vote sheets, and which donors lobbied for which line items. For the [[Trump Airport Licensing Deal]] he found the $2.75M budget line, tracked every committee vote, and reported that [[Ron DeSantis]] signed the bill behind closed doors. His recurring "DeSantis decisions" series logs each signing and veto against its lobbyists and donors. He fits the same one-person-newsletter pattern as [[Judd Legum]] (Popular Information): primary-source filings over press releases. > [!note] Stub > Expand with his Alligator Alcatraz contract reporting (2025) and the data-center donor series (2026).