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A.G. GancarskiFebruary 26, 2016

On a crisp Friday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry thrilled some onlookers and alarmed others when he took command of a excavator to begin the deconstruction of a blighted, 12-unit apartment complex on Payne Street. This creative destruction was for a good cause: a prelude to the development of Payne Avenue Walk, a 12-unit affordable single family home […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 26, 2016

Jacksonville Republicans who want to meet Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, a current U.S. Senate candidate, Monday night are in luck. Lopez-Cantera will have a “Grassroots meet and greet” on Monday evening on the Southside of Jacksonville. It will be a chance to “enjoy the company of fellow activists and neighbors in a unique opportunity to meet […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 26, 2016

Marco Rubio‘s Jacksonville campaign headquarters will have a kickoff event on March 3 at 7:00 p.m. The event is at the Rubio HQ at 3428 Beach Blvd. Marco’s brother Mario will be the special guest. As well, we are hearing from reliable sources that Rubio plans a campaign rally in Jacksonville the next afternoon. By […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

An active day for the Ron DeSantis press shop continued on Thursday evening, with the GOP Senate campaign trumpeting the endorsement of Dan Bongino. Bongino, who lost general elections in Maryland during the past two cycles, 2012 for Senate and 2014 for House, noted in a statement put out by the DeSantis team that he will “not […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

One of the most interesting primaries in Florida is the Congressional District 6 GOP scrum to replace Ron DeSantis. There are a few viable candidates in it, and one of them is Brandon Patty, a 34-year-old dynamo who has gone from success to success. Patty, an Operation Enduring Freedom veteran and a graduate of the London School […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

More details have come out on Monday’s tour of media markets from newly announced U.S. Senate candidate Carlos Beruff. Beruff, already slated to announce his candidacy at events in Miami and Sarasota, plans to add a 12:15 p.m. stop in Jacksonville and a 2:15 p.m. stop in Orlando to the mix. His entry into the race […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry hasn’t endorsed in any State House race yet in this cycle, but a scheduled meeting with HD 12 candidate Clay Yarborough on Thursday raised endorsement questions. However, the meeting ended up not happening. Marsha Oliver, Curry’s spokesperson, noted that Yarborough’s meeting was “rescheduled” and that Yarborough had “requested the meeting so we are unsure […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

On Friday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will lead a crew in a building demolition effort. But it’s for a good reason: the eradication of blight, and renewal. A release from the mayor’s office asserts that “a Jacksonville neighborhood, once ridden with crime, will soon experience a “groundbreaking” effort unlike any other.” “In preparation of the development of Payne […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

Jacksonville will host a National Preparedness for Response (PREP) exercise from March 14-17, coordinated by the Coast Guard, the Navy, NOAA, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. During this exercise, response personnel will be mobilized and deployed with appropriate equipment, under an incident command organization designed to test the coordination of these arms of […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016

By a healthy margin, more votes have been cast by Duval County Republicans than Democrats in the 2016 Presidential Preference Primary thus far. As of 9 a.m. Thursday, 3,413 votes have been received by the Duval County Supervisor of Elections. Just 1,300 of those have been cast by Democrats, the remaining 2,113 Republicans.

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Lenny Curry, demolition man

Carlos Lopez-Cantera to confab with Jax GOP grassroots Monday

Marco Rubio campaign Jax HQ “kickoff event” Thursday, rally on Friday?

Dan Bongino endorses Ron DeSantis for Senate

CD 6 candidate Brandon Patty says he’ll take “my marching orders from the district”

Carlos Beruff to tour 4 major media markets Monday

Clay Yarborough meeting with Lenny Curry “rescheduled”

Lenny Curry to lead demolition exercise Friday

Navy, Coast Guard plan simulated fuel spill exercise in Jax

GOP leads presidential voting so far in Duval County