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A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2017

The big news out of Tuesday’s meeting of Jacksonville’s JEA Board wasn’t on the agenda. Board member Tom Petway — one of the earliest supporters of the candidacy of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry — announced his intention to leave the board Dec. 31. And he revived a major conceptual proposal on his way out. Petway suggested that perhaps […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2017

Steps away from Sen. Marco Rubio‘s Jacksonville office, a group of Jacksonville preachers thundered against the “immoral” tax bill in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The clergymen, brought together under the aegis of the “Faith in Public Life” group, called for Rubio and Sen. Bill Nelson to vote against the tax bill based on “religious” values. Nelson has objected […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2017

Rep. Paul Renner, a Republican representing Palm Coast, will speak in Jacksonville Wednesday afternoon at the Southside Business Men’s Club. Renner, a Jacksonville lawyer, is in line to become House Speaker in 2022 — a long-awaited return to power in Tallahassee for the Jacksonville political class, which still yearns for the days of Jim King and John Thrasher. […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2017

Gubernatorial hopeful Adam Putnam is serving up the BBQ and the equally slow-roasted Florida exceptionalism stump speech Thursday in Jacksonville. The meet-and-greet — not “meat and greet” — event with the Agriculture Commissioner kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and promises Putnam will “discuss his vision for Florida’s future and how he’ll always put Florida First.” Putnam has […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 27, 2017

Will U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis run for re-election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District? That question is still unanswered — word for some time has been that DeSantis will run statewide in 2018, and he currently plans to make an announcement early next year. Those watching this district may experience a sense of déjà vu; recall that […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 27, 2017

A settlement has been reached between state Rep. Kim Daniels and the Florida Elections Commission on disputed campaign spending from Daniels’ failed 2015 re-election bid to the Jacksonville City Council. Daniels will be compelled to pay $1,500, per a consent order signed in October. The deal will be finalized at an FEC meeting Tuesday. As Jacksonville’s Folio Weekly reported […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 27, 2017

Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Gaffney has had an interesting two years in office. There was a traffic stop confrontation with Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office members, who stopped him because he was driving around on a license tag he reported stolen. There also was the matter of Gaffney “double-dipping” on homestead exemptions, as the Florida Times-Union first reported. Despite these […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 27, 2017

Earlier this month, state Sen. Audrey Gibson — the next Caucus leader for Senate Democrats — resigned as chair of the Duval County Democratic Party. A new chair will be chosen Dec. 4, a week from today. Until then, Darren Mason is in the interim role. “I plan to continue to recruit and mobilize our party as we prepare […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 26, 2017

The holiday season can test even the best of relationships, and offered the impetus for severance of ties between a barrister and a state legislator. Citing “irreconcilable differences,” attorney Vladimir St. Louis motioned Nov. 21 to withdraw from a foreclosure case involving Spoken Word Ministries, the theological concern of Rep. Kim Daniels, a Jacksonville Democrat. The motion […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2017

A bill that would shield the personal information of voters and preregistered minor voter registration applicants has been filed in both houses of the Legislature as of Monday. Rep. Cyndi Stevenson is carrying the House version (HB 761), while Sen. Tom Lee is carrying the Senate iteration (SB 532). The bill would exempt the “legal residential address, date of […]

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Exiting JEA Board, Tom Petway renews push to privatize Jax public utility

Jax preachers call Senate tax plan ‘economic genocide’

Paul Renner to speak in Jacksonville Wednesday

Adam Putnam BBQ bash in Jacksonville Thursday

With or without Ron DeSantis, race for Florida’s Sixth Congressional District will heat up

Settlement reached in Kim Daniels campaign finance kerfuffle

Reggie Gaffney raises $10K for Jax City Council re-election bid

Lisa King, Hazel Gillis to square off for chair of Duval Democrats

‘Irreconcilable differences’ between lawyer, lawmaker in foreclosure case

Bill to protect voter info filed in both houses