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A.G. GancarskiMay 23, 2016

Jacksonville is on the fiscal brink. Everything from the “emergency audit” that Mayor Lenny Curry commissioned in 2015, to the pitch for the pension tax made this year, says so. Yet austerity isn’t the watchword everywhere in the city, even as rank-and-file city employees haven’t gotten raises this decade. **** In what some will see as […]

Melissa RossMay 23, 2016

Death penalty opponents in Jacksonville are rallying Thursday night at an event honoring the late Shelby Farah. Titled “Not In My Name,” the evening is billed as “bringing awareness about the death penalty and the trauma inflicted on victims and family members within the criminal justice system.” Farah was just 20 when she was murdered […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2016

You can’t put a price on the value of earned media. And in Northeast Florida, there is no surer way to score earned media than by taking aim at school bathroom policies, as 4th circuit state attorney candidate Wes White and Clay County superintendent of schools Charles Van Zant can tell you. On Tuesday, White […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 17, 2016

Another day, another story about public school bathrooms from Northeast Florida. On Monday, Duval County’s school superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, discussed the “fear factor” from some parents and students, relative to transgender students using the bathrooms of their choice, a policy supported and accommodated by Duval County Public Schools. On Tuesday, Vitti, along with the school district […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 16, 2016

On Monday, the New Florida Majority and allies, including a state senator, held a press conference in front of the Duval County Supervisor of Elections office to protest closed primaries in the 4th Judicial Circuit races for public defender and state attorney. The biggest name of those allies, Sen. Audrey Gibson, noted drily that “the [television] cameras […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 11, 2016

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State Attorney candidate Wes White would have seen his campaign account go red in April without a personal loan of some green. As it is, the 4th Circuit Republican is just barely in the black after a $4,000 personal loan that dwarfed the mere $825 in donations White brought in last month. Thus far in the […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 9, 2016

On Monday afternoon, Fourth Circuit State Attorney Angela Corey opened her campaign office, contrasting her commitment to “positive energy” with the “lies and misinformation” she expects from her opponents. “I plan to run this campaign with positive energy,” said Corey, and to “continue to rebut the lies and misinformation” from her political opponents. “I will not […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2016

The theater of the State Attorney’s race in the 4th Circuit pivoted toward farce Thursday as “Men Only” divorce lawyer Kenny Leigh of Fleming Island filed as a write-in. Leigh’s entry closes the Republican primary, restricting it to incumbent Angela Corey and her two challengers, Melissa Nelson and Wes White. Before Leigh’s entry, only Republican candidates had filed for the race, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2016

The State Attorney race in the 4th Circuit got more complicated Thursday, with Melissa Nelson opening a campaign account in Tallahassee. Nelson will run as a Republican against Wes White and incumbent Angela Corey. Is Corey worried? Sounded like it when FloridaPolitics.com spoke with her last month. She referred to the potential for negative campaigning from opponents more than once […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 3, 2016

Fourth Circuit State Attorney Angela Corey announced Tuesday that she qualified for her re-election ballot via petition. Corey’s campaign notes that she “heads into the final stretch of her campaign as the clear frontrunner. In addition to leading the field of candidates in total money raised and cash on hand, Corey has amassed over 500 individual contributors […]

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Angela Corey’s employees to get $354K in ‘retention raises’ and ‘salary adjustments’

Jax death penalty opponents to rally in honor of the late Shelby Farah

School restrooms, earned media, and Northeast Florida Politicians

Duval School Board sued over bathroom policy

Audrey Gibson, Jax activists protest closed GOP primaries in 4th circuit elections

Wes White stays out of red with campaign loan

Why did Angela Corey’s campaign manager file her write-in opponent’s campaign paperwork?

Fleming Island divorce lawyer Kenny Leigh enters 4th Circuit State Attorney’s race as write-in

Melissa Nelson in State Attorney race against Angela Corey

Angela Corey qualifies for re-election ballot by petition