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Ryan RayJune 9, 2016

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Jeff Moran has hit the airwaves in a hotly contested GOP primary in the 2nd Congressional District race to replace U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham. In the Ft. White businessman’s first ad — a one-minute spot entitled “Hands On” — Moran seeks to grasp the mantle of consummate outsider in a 2016 election cycle where polished, traditional politicians are out […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Is Todd Wilcox too honest for the 2016 United States Senate race? His speech Thursday to the Republican Women’s Club of Duval Federated suggested that may be the case. In a room full of career politicians, Wilcox began his remarks by discussing a “movement underway … fueled by disgust with career politicians.” Wilcox described himself […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced his “bipartisan finance team” for his “Yes for Jacksonville” political committee, designed to market the pension-tax referendum. “This group of community and business leaders come from both political parties and bring an incredible depth of experience,” said Curry. “Their dedication to the city’s future and commitment to a victory for this reform ensures […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

State Rep. Reggie Fullwood filed a motion recently saying he could not be charged with defrauding the Division of Elections in his 14-count federal trial for 10 counts of wire fraud and four counts of failure to file federal tax returns. This week, federal prosecutors disagreed. “Defendant’s motion is misguided. It is premature, it is an incorrect statement […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

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A 90-minute Wednesday public notice meeting in the Jacksonville City Council offices addressed the perilous future of Friends of Hemming Park. This tradition is almost as old as Jacksonville itself. **** The nonprofit Friends of Hemming Park, designed to run the park, has enough funds to last until early August, after a $100,000 appropriation during […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi is in the news this week for soliciting a donation from Donald Trump concurrent with a considered, then scuttled, 2013 investigation of Trump University. Next week, she will be in the news for soliciting donations in a different context — the re-election campaign of Angela Corey, the incumbent Republican State Attorney in Florida’s 4th […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

State Rep. Travis Cummings, who represents northern Clay County, and Jay Fant, who represents much of Jacksonville’s Westside, have some things in common. Both are Republican incumbents. Neither faces a primary challenge. Both raised little money in May. And both got $500 checks from the “Duke Energy Corporation Florida” PAC. **** Cummings raised just $1,800, […]

Scott PowersJune 8, 2016

Democrat Val Demings has won the endorsement of Teamsters Local 385 in her quest to be elected in Florida’s 10th Congressional District. Demings, a former Orlando police chief, received the backing in part because of her long career at the police department. “As a former union member during her days with the Orlando Police Department, […]

Peter SchorschJune 8, 2016

Democrat Maria Sachs will not run for another term in the Florida Senate, Sachs confirmed Wednesday after Florida Politics reported that multiple sources, including two of her Senate colleagues, said she had told them she wasn’t running. Sachs told John Kennedy of the Palm Beach Post that she has formed a nonprofit organization called the Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 8, 2016

The Florida Commission on Ethics this month determined “probable cause” in three incidents related to 4th Circuit Public Defender Matt Shirk, whose hiring of three women from a now-defunct bar called “Whiskey River,” and subsequent entertaining of the women in his office, were matters of media interest a couple of years back. Two other incidents, meanwhile, didn’t meet […]

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Jeff Moran flaunts outsider cred in first CD 2 campaign ad

Todd Wilcox talks career pols, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump

Tommy Hazouri among ‘bipartisan finance team’ for Jax pension-tax referendum sales pitch

Feds: Reggie Fullwood motion that Division of Elections was not defrauded is ‘misguided’

Jax mulls future of Hemming Park … again

Pam Bondi to fundraise for Angela Corey next week

Slow fundraising for Travis Cummings, Jay Fant in May

Teamsters Local 385 endorses Val Demings in CD 10 contest

Maria Sachs confirms she is not running for re-election

Matt Shirk takes hits from state Ethics Commission