A.G. Gancarski
Much of the attention in the Democratic primary in Florida’s 5th Congressional District is on incumbent Corrine Brown’s fighting 22 counts related to the One Door for Education charity. And, more recently, to challenger Al Lawson and his campaign taking money from traditional GOP sources.
However, there is a third candidate in the race: the underfunded Lashonda Jewell Holloway, who has just $1,175 on hand.
In Holloway’s Florida Times-Union questionnaire, she claimed she’d never been sued, arrested, or had declared bankruptcy.
While that technically may be true, Holloway has experienced financial issues in recent years that are now in the public record.
Those financial issues relate to a foreclosure and to delinquent property taxes from 2015.
Holloway had a foreclosure that was closed last month, resulting in a final judgement and a $90,000 bank account garnishment.
Also, Holloway has a rental home in Sherwood Forest, but owes $3,357 in delinquent 2015 property taxes on her Duval County homestead.
We reached out to Holloway Sunday to get her perspective on these issues, talking to someone in her campaign office Sunday morning, with the hope of getting an interview to clarify these matters Sunday evening, after the candidate had finished visiting churches in Tallahassee.
Regrettably, the interview was not scheduled on Holloway’s end.
After reaching out to Holloway’s personal number Monday morning, Holloway informed FloridaPolitics.com that “this is not the time to call,” advising us to call her campaign office — as had been done 20 hours before — to schedule an interview.
Holloway has worked in the city government in Washington, D.C. — serving as director of documents for a year in the mayor’s office — and that approach to phone calls is familiar to anyone who ever dealt with governmental agencies in the nation’s capital.
That said, it brings readers no closer to understanding the issues behind Holloway’s back taxes and foreclosure judgement.
Holloway has run her campaign, which started last October, on a shoestring.
While the candidate has not self-funded at all, worth noting is that Helen Holloway, undersigned as a pro se third-party defendant in the foreclosure judgement of July 25, has donated $2,700 (or almost a fifth of the $16,097 raised by the Holloway campaign since October 2015) to the candidate.
2 comments
L.J. Holloway
August 24, 2016 at 10:23 am
Funny, you have known about my Candidacy since October 2015 and never requested an interview, but with days until the election while Campaigning you call my Campaign office on a Sunday. However, I am responding to inform VOTERS. For the record, you should know a BRAIN TUMOR was the reason I requested a Forbearance that became a Foreclosure on the Lot (not a home); however, the Bank Bailout is what allowed the bank to get, the land, proceeds from the sale and a $90k SATISFIED JUDGMENT. I choose truth in communication, hence, my run for Congress and refusal to accept Campaign Contributions from BiG Business or Special Interest. See, my CANDIDATE PLEDGE http://www.LjHOLLOWAYforCONGRESS.com or You can buy my book “What to Do when a Life hands you a Devastating Diagnosis” to see why Americans in a Country as rich as ours should not die or go broke trying to live in our sick care system. For a better day, VOTE L.J. HOLLOWAY.
The Volunteer Voice @ LJ Holloway for Congress District 5
August 24, 2016 at 11:33 am
I am “The Volunteer Voice” you spoke with Sunday morning answering the Campaign phones. I graciously asked if I could take a message for you because Ms. Holloway was out of office. However, you immediately said that you knew how to reach her – that she must be attending the Souls to the Polls in Tallahassee. You opted to forge your own way but noted in your article as if you were delayed by her people; I’m saddened by the way you’ve described our encounter.
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