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A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

The first thing you would have seen walking into the Salem Center for the Monday Duval County Republican Executive Committee meeting would have been Raymond Johnson. You couldn’t have missed him. He stood directly across from the glass doors, with a poster board and a petition opposing Jack Webb, a candidate for GOP chair,. Objecting […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 23, 2015

Events this summer have brought the long-simmering debate over the Confederate flag to a hard boil, and the predictable backlash from the hard right, especially but not exclusively in the Southeast, is in full swing. We saw it days ago, when an Inverness gun store owner declared his shop a “Muslim-free zone.“ And we almost […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 20, 2015

The always interesting race for the Duval County Republican Party Chair took a couple of turns in recent days. The campaign against Jack Webb started in earnest this past weekend, with a prominent member of the Jacksonville Christian right going in hard on the former Councilman. Breaking news, meanwhile: in the Duval GOP, not everybody […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 4, 2015

On Monday morning, the United Christians of Florida announced its endorsements in the 2015 Duval County, Jacksonville city elections. Missing from that docket: recommendations in the mayoral race and in At Large Group 1. The group endorsed Mike Williams for sheriff, Geoff Youngblood and Sam Newby for At Large Groups 3 and 5, and Mike Anania, Al Ferraro, Reggie Gaffney, and Pat Lockett-Felder in […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 9, 2015

A few weeks back, for my column in Folio Weekly, I interviewed Raymond Johnson of Biblical Concepts Ministries. Johnson, a local political consultant, had put together the Biblical Concepts Ministries 2015 Duval County Candidates Christian Voter Guide Survey, which aimed “to educate Christians in our local churches on where candidates stand on these moral, biblical and cultural […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 9, 2015

A few weeks back, for my column in Folio Weekly, I interviewed Raymond Johnson of Biblical Concepts Ministries. Johnson, a local political consultant, had put together the Biblical Concepts Ministries 2015 Duval County Candidates Christian Voter Guide Survey, which aimed “to educate Christians in our local churches on where candidates stand on these moral, biblical and cultural […]

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Mike Johnson. Image via AP.

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Biblical Concepts Ministries releases "Christian voters' guide" for Jax voters