A.G. Gancarski
On Friday, we reported on an internal poll from Lenny Curry’s consulting firm that shows the Republican ahead of Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville Mayoral Race for the first time. The poll showed Curry ahead of the Democrat by 4 points, and spotlighted some trends that would seemingly worry the Brown camp, such as a “dangerously low” re-elect number and a catastrophically low number of undecideds who believe Brown should be re-elected.
The Brown campaign is not worried, however, framing the release of the poll as an “act of desperation” and yet another in a series of “campaign tricks,” as a statement we received late on Friday suggests.
“When a candidate releases an internal poll from his own partisan consultant, it’s clearly an act of desperation. Party boss Lenny Curry is trying his best to respond to Mayor Brown’s momentum, but it won’t work,” said Yianni Varonis, spokesman for the Brown campaign,
“To be clear: every reputable, public poll has shown Mayor Brown leading, along with our internal polls. [Friday] is a good reason why. While Mayor Brown has spent his day in the community fighting for higher wages and preventing the shutdown of UF Health, Party Boss Lenny Curry has done nothing but use campaign tricks to continue playing partisan politics,” Varonis adds.
The Curry campaign’s spokesman, Brian Hughes, had a biting response, even later on Friday evening.
“They must be joking. Their candidate has flipped positions more than a pancake gets flipped at Beach Diner. In 25 days we will see that Jacksonville families have chosen Lenny Curry’s positive vision for the city over crass political pandering from a failing career politician,” Hughes said.
