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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2016

Wednesday afternoon, we ran a piece: Winners and Losers in the NE Florida primaries. The piece was intended to document who won and who lost on primary night, going beyond the results to look at whose bets paid off and whose calculations did not. For those listed as winners, the read was lauded … even as […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 1, 2016

Whether it’s the tropical weather or the fact that his boss and co-defendant is slated to have a hearing on her own situation with counsel, the hearing scheduled for Elias “Ronnie” Simmons (chief of staff for Rep. Corrine Brown) has been pushed back from Thursday to Sept. 7. Brown’s hearing, regarding her own lack of counsel and […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2016

The northeast Florida primaries have been in the books for almost 24 hours at this writing. A review of the winners — and the losers — goes beyond the election returns to look at what happened to create these outcomes that will, in historical retrospect, seem inevitable. Winners Lenny Curry — The chattering classes told him he couldn’t get […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2016

As Rep. Corrine Brown prepares for her life after elected office, a role she’s been in since 1982, she offered meditations in a blog post Wednesday. Brown, who lost her primary in the reconfigured 5th Congressional District by nine points, framed the electoral loss not as a “defeat,” but a “setback.” Brown was not able to completely […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2016

Not every candidate the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police endorsed won on Tuesday. Angela Corey lost by a more than a 2-to-1 margin in her race for re-election as 4th Circuit State Attorney. Donnie Horner, Dick Kravitz, and Terrance Freeman lost their races for the state House. It remains to be seen if Mark Hulsey won his race […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016

Despite five open seats and one seat with an indicted incumbent, the action in Northeast Florida State House races largely is wrapped up in time for the Labor Day weekend, thanks to the realities of gerrymandering making the primaries the real show. The only seat left with a competitive election: the one in HD 13 […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016

County Referendum 1 — which will authorize the extension of Jacksonville’s half-cent sales surtax and dedicate it to funding the $2.8 billion unfunded pension liability — was passed Tuesday by a resounding number. At the time of publication of this post, the referendum was up 65 to 35 percent, with all but two precincts reporting. Jacksonville Mayor […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016

Duval, Clay, and Nassau Counties will see a new state attorney and a new public defender in January, as two polarizing incumbents were swept out of office, with resounding defeats in contentious primaries. In the most expensive GOP primary race for state attorney ever in this region, challenger Melissa Nelson — with a war chest of […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016

The Corrine Brown era is over in Congressional District 5. Brown won two counties: Duval and Columbia. Lawson won everywhere else. Former State Sen. Al Lawson defeated the 12-term incumbent and L.J. Holloway on Tuesday, with a margin of 47 percent to 40 percent. This seemed to be a race that could go either way, with the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2016

Former Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford started the Congressional District 4 GOP primary as the establishment favorite, and on Tuesday night, with almost 39 percent of the vote, he defeated Hans Tanzler at 20 percent, Jacksonville State Rep. Lake Ray at 19 percent, and St. Johns County Commissioner Bill McClure with 10 percent. Rutherford, though outspent by […]

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Martin Luther King with civil rights leader leading march. Image via AP.

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Corrine Brown chief of staff’s hearing on his legal counsel pushed back to Sept. 7

A rundown of the winners and losers from northeast Florida’s primary elections

Corrine Brown after loss: ‘You know they’ve been after me for years’

Jax FOP: ‘future is bright’ after primary election results

Kim Daniels, Reggie Fullwood, Jason Fischer among NE Florida state House primary victors

County Referendum 1 passes big, allowing Jacksonville to resolve $2.8B unfunded liability

Melissa Nelson, Charles Cofer win primaries; the Angela Corey/Matt Shirk era ends

Al Lawson wins CD 5 primary; Corrine Brown’s era is over

John Rutherford wins CD 4 primary