A.G. GancarskiSen. Aaron Bean had a quiet month of fundraising, as the Fernandina Beach Republican runs unopposed in Senate District 4, yet one donation stood out in his $1,600 April haul.
Tools for a Time, the company of Geoff Youngblood, a defeated candidate for Jacksonville’s City Council in 2015, gave $500 to Bean.
Bean was the Senate sponsor of the Pastor Protection Act last session. Youngblood’s father, of course, is a pastor with a political bent.
With just days left in Youngblood’s campaign last May, his father’s church scored some earned media by posting a provocative message on its sign out front of the church: “Homosexuals must repent or go to Hell.”
Youngblood went on to lose his race by a double-digit margin to Tommy Hazouri, a former Democratic mayor of Jacksonville, who campaigned vowing to expand the Human Rights Ordinance to the LGBT community in Jacksonville.
Since then, Youngblood and his father were among local supporters of the Ted Cruz presidential campaign.
Thus far in his campaign, Bean has raised $138,300, and has over $77,000 on hand.
