A.G. Gancarski
Lenny Curry opened his Avondale campaign office Thursday, and everyone who was everyone in Curry World was there.
Behind-the-scenes guys, such as Peter Rummell and Michael Munz, and former adversaries, such as state Reps. Paul Renner and Jay Fant (who had a contentious GOP primary for the Avondale/Westside seat not too long ago) along with two former mayors with 16 years of executive branch experience who united to promulgate one message.
Alvin Brown isn’t getting it done.
John Peyton was never known for his stump speeches. Yet he was full of fire in that sauna of a room.
“I’ve been suspiciously quiet the last four years,” he said. “I pledged to the mayor that I wouldn’t be critical.”
However, Peyton said that Brown has been “one of the greatest disappointments” he’s seen in his career. And “four more years would set the city back for decades,” Peyton added. And Brown has demonstrated the “highest level of incompetence” by playing a photo-op driven “political game.”
“The circus has been in town long enough,” Peyton said.
Delaney wasn’t any nicer.
The “city finances are a wreck,” he said, and “we can’t even buy a river taxi.” The pension has “gone backwards,” Delaney added, and “I’ve spent more time on UF Health than the administration has.”
The Brown administration, contends Delaney, is “all talk and no action.”
The Curry campaign brought out the big guns in Avondale. One suspects they will deploy those assets a few more times during the rest of the campaign.
