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A.G. GancarskiJanuary 14, 2016

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The big money story in the House District 19 GOP race in December is Katherine Van Zant widening her fundraising lead. There was $21,907 of December money for Van Zant, wife of Charles Van Zant, the incumbent who’s one of the more powerful Republicans in the lower house. It brings her total to $109,910, against […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 14, 2016

In November, 4th District State Attorney candidate Wes White dropped off petitions at Supervisor of Elections offices at the Duval, Nassau, and Clay County SOE offices. At the time, White said that “response of the voters, while we were out gathering these signatures, was overwhelmingly positive,” and that just four voters refused to sign petitions, including the […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

Congressional District 6 Republican candidate Sandy Adams withdrew from the race for the GOP nomination Wednesday. She said she needs to recover from surgery after a “serious health issue.” “As I withdraw from public life, I am both grateful for the opportunity to serve and apprehensive about the future. Our community and our nation faces […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

On Tuesday night, Jacksonville’s City Council’s public comment was wall to wall HRO for over three hours. On Wednesday afternoon, the co-sponsor (with Republican Aaron Bowman) of an ordinance expanding the HRO to the LGBT community, Tommy Hazouri, spoke to a Democratic women’s group about the urgency of the effort. Speaking to the Democratic Women’s Information Network, Councilman […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has as much local political momentum for his pension tax plan as he could want. Everyone on City Council co-sponsored a resolution of support, which passed Tuesday night. However, Senate co-sponsor Rob Bradley is the first to say that getting it through both chambers in Tallahassee is a “heavy lift.” To that end, […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

One of the big stories of last legislative session: Rick Scott was not on the “Bean Team,” with budget vetoes that shocked Aaron Bean, as Tia Mitchell wrote. Since then, Bean has attempted to mend fences. Steve Bousquet documented Bean’s awkward sounding attempt to rebuild a relationship last year. And now, Bean has kissed Scott’s ring anew, signing on in support of […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

Before the holidays, a great deal of talk revolved around David Santiago launching a run in CD 6. Now, we are hearing that Santiago has thrown his hat into the ring, joining four other Republicans in the race to succeed Ron DeSantis. “Our nation is at a crossroads. We need real leaders with the courage and proven […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 13, 2016

The big news coming out of Tuesday’s Jacksonville City Council public comment marathon on expanding the Human Right Ordinance: Confessions of a child molester, advanced to negate the case for HRO expansion. Westsider Roy Bay, a 56-year-old Caucasian, said that when he was “10 or 12 years old,” he was “sexually assaulted by the homosexual community,” […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 12, 2016

““Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams “If we’d had a referendum in 1965, I’d still be on the back of the bus.” — Denise Hunt A light legislative agenda on Jacksonville’s City Council was offset by dozens of […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 12, 2016

Tuesday’s JEA Agreement meeting, at least on the agenda, was dominated by two meaningful issues. The first: pension issues, in light of both the General Counsel ruling that Council, and not JEA, was the appropriative body for pay negotiations. This ruling overruled the previous General Counsel’s take on the matter earlier in the decade. As well, […]

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Katherine Van Zant expands fundraising advantage in HD 19

Wes White describes petition predicament as printing error

Sandy Adams withdraws from CD 6 race, cites health issue

Tommy Hazouri talks Jax HRO with Dem women’s group

Lenny Curry again scheduled to hilt in Tallahassee

Aaron Bean courts Rick Scott, backs Enterprise Florida

David Santiago files in CD 6

Who is Roy Bay? And why does it matter?

HRO expansion talk roils Jax City Council

Pension, contribution issues dominate JEA Agreement meeting