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A.G. GancarskiJanuary 27, 2016

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis represents Ponte Vedra in Congress, and his wife Casey is a television chat show host. Carlos Lopez-Cantera has a campaign manager, Brian Swensen, who fulfilled a similar task for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. Yet it’s Todd Wilcox, the seeming dark horse of the Florida GOP U.S. Senate derby, who is best positioned (perhaps) to […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 25, 2015

The most telling moment during Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown‘s “employee appreciation event,” which served as a de facto farewell address was during the print gaggle afterward, when David Bauerlein asked the outgoing mayor about how he was coping with the loss. “I was surprised,” Brown said about the night of the election. “I thought I had it.” […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 20, 2015

With the Mayor’s Office, the Sheriff’s Office, and eight city council seats up for grabs on Tuesday evening, there’s no shortage of winners and losers emerging from Jacksonville’s elections. In some cases, they’re pretty obvious; in other cases, they bear explanation. Winners Robin Lumb — The Duval GOP chairman, who took over the local party […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2015

In an event that was half policy and half retail politics, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was joined by Audrey Gibson and Mia Jones and other African-American Democrats on Monday morning. Their shared purpose: to lambaste the governor for failing to secure federal funding for local hospitals. As well, there was more than a little bit of electioneering going at […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 18, 2015

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The slogan on billboards across Jacksonville during even-numbered years is Corrine Delivers! If Mayor Alvin Brown wins re-election on Tuesday, he can probably thank U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown for helping to push him over the hump, especially if the Selma Sunday GOTV rally is any indication. Not every rally leading up to this election has been […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 21, 2015

UPDATE: 12:48 p.m. Governor Mitt Romney has announced his endorsement of Lenny Curry, as an email from the campaign attests, with slightly different language than that in the email we obtained.. “I have traveled our country working to advance conservative principles, and here in Florida I’ve had a partner in Lenny Curry. Lenny is committed […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 17, 2015

The Alvin Brown campaign sent a statement to us this evening on the “endorsement” email that came from the Bill Bishop for Mayor email account this afternoon, two hours before it was retracted. The email account was controlled by Rob and Jill Storey. The RLS Group, which was managing Bishop’s campaign through the First Election, recently moved over to […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 13, 2015

A great deal of speculation among Duval County conservatives has revolved around how “ready for Hillary” Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown is. The Lenny Curry campaign, in fact, sent out an email speculating that Brown was “dreaming” of his next “Clinton D.C. job.” Despite former President Bill Clinton already having had made a trip to Jacksonville to rally the troops […]

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Mitt Romney endorses Lenny Curry, helms PVB fundraiser

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