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A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

St. Johns County Commissioner Jimmy Johns scored a significant endorsement Wednesday, from St. Johns Sheriff David Shoar, in the crowded GOP primary in Florida’s Sixth Congressional District. Shoar cited Johns’ “track record of supporting our public safety officers. He has done so on the St. Johns County Commission and will do so in Washington.” Shoar pivoted from […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

Alvin Brown was Jacksonville Mayor in 2012, when Jordan Davis was gunned down at a gas station on the Southside. In the years since, Brown has demonstrated support and friendship to Davis’ parents, and that support was reciprocated, via an official endorsement for Congress Wednesday. Ron Davis and Lucy McBath, offered a joint statement, one that […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

The money chase in the Jacksonville City Council at-large group 2 race continues to go Republican Ron Salem‘s way. February saw Salem clear $150,000 cash on hand between hard money and lucre in his “Moving Jacksonville Forward” political committee. Salem brought in $6,800 in new money to his campaign account in February, despite a $1,000 refund […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

Except for a brief period of time when Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry was discussed as a possible Chief Financial Officer appointment, there has been little doubt that he would run for re-election. The first inkling of that effort’s branding emerged Wednesday morning, via a new cover photo on his campaign Facebook page. The second, more definitive […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

Of all the journalists to work the Jacksonville market, none had a more enduring scope than recently departed Marvin Edwards. Edwards, who passed away at 96 years old and wrote bristling exposes of municipal boondoggles almost until the end, was a columnist, an essayist, and a quote machine. Consider these lines from a 2001 article in Florida […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2018

The internecine battles continue in the Republican Party of Duval County. The latest involves the county chair looking to purge the statewide chair of the Young Republicans. County chair Karyn Morton wrote Florida Federation of Young Republicans chair Robbie Foster March 3, informing him of a motion to vote him out March 19. The cause: “highly disruptive […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2018

Let the “four more years” chants begin for two first-term Jacksonville City Council members. On Tuesday, Democratic Councilwoman Katrina Brown launched her bid for re-election in District 8. Days before that, Republican Al Ferraro launched his re-election bid in District 2. Brown and Ferraro face different paths to re-election. Brown has issues other incumbents don’t. She has […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2018

State Rep. Kim Daniels, an iconoclastic Jacksonville Democrat, has the area’s political establishment behind her. Among her January donors: members of the Rummell family, the Jacksonville Association of Fire Fighters, and local dog track interests. Daniels has nearly $16,000 cash on hand; however, her NPA opponent, Darcy Richardson, believes that he can be competitive in the November […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2018

Of all candidates in the 2019 Jacksonville City Council races, veteran Republican politician Matt Carlucci has the most impressive fundraising: $221,150 raised, with over $208,000 on hand. Carlucci was alone on the ballot for At-Large Group 4; however, that changed with the filing of another person looking to return to City Council: Don Redman. Redman, a Republican who […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 1, 2018

Darren Mason, a former assistant to Jacksonville City Councilwoman Joyce Morgan, is the first Democrat to jump into the 2019 At Large Group 2 race for City Council. He said he would file on March 1; we interviewed him ahead of time. Unlike what is the case with some fields in Council races, Mason comes […]

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Milton damage. Image via City of Tampa.

St. Johns County Sheriff backs Jimmy Johns for Congress

Jordan Davis’ parents back Alvin Brown for Congress

Ron Salem clears $150K on hand in Jacksonville Council race

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry quietly launches re-election campaign

Jacksonville City Council to honor muckraker Marvin Edwards

Duval GOP to vote to expel statewide Young Republican chair from its executive committee

Jacksonville City Councilors Katrina Brown, Al Ferraro launch re-election bids

Kim Daniels’ NPA challenger touts fundraising in House race

Don Redman launches Jacksonville City Council run against Matt Carlucci

Darren Mason launches Jacksonville City Council run