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Melissa RossApril 24, 2015

Choosing the classic Avondale café The Fox to illustrate the point, Mayor Alvin Brown joined the restaurant’s owner Ian Chase for a news conference touting his support for an increase in the local minimum wage. Denying the move was an electioneering strategy, Brown told reporters he supports raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, saying it […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

District 8 Councilwoman Denise Lee is a loyal Democrat, but she has a message for Alvin Brown regarding his recent radio ad, heard exclusively on local black radio: It’s “race-baiting” and “should be pulled.” “It is race-baiting,” Lee said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon. “I understand that a campaign is war,” but these “race-baiting tactics” are […]

Melissa RossApril 23, 2015

As a conservative Democrat in GOP-leaning Duval County, Mayor Alvin Brown has always had to triangulate. It’s a skill most Florida political observers think he learned from his years Bill Clinton‘s orbit (arguably the most skilled Democrat in history at swimming upstream in the South). Perpetually walking a knife’s edge on taxes and spending, not to mention […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

[Updated at 11:30 a.m. Thursday with comment from Lenny Curry campaign.] In what the Alvin Brown campaign trumpets as a “major announcement,” and that the Curry campaign characterizes as somewhat less meaningful, Brown has ordered his Office of General Counsel to conduct a comparative study of federal, state, and local laws that combat discrimination. It “will ensure […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

One of the arguments the Lenny Curry campaign has made in recent weeks is the overt linkage of Alvin Brown to Hillary Clinton. In a mass email sent Thursday morning with three calls to action designed to drive donations to the Curry campaign, that case is again made explicitly that Alvin Brown is a “Clinton Crony.” “Hillary Clinton […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

The Lenny Curry and Alvin Brown campaigns have both made concerted plays for Jacksonville voters to cast votes by mail, and we are seeing a surge in votes from Republicans and Democrats alike. As of 8:30 Thursday morning, 4,799 absentee ballots were cast. The break is still toward the Republicans, but a more even split is emerging between […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

The always idiosyncratic voters at the Jacksonville Tiger Bay club voted in a straw poll for citywide candidates at this past Friday’s meeting, which we covered. The results are in and they are not party line. In the Mayoral Straw Poll, incumbent Democrat Alvin Brown bested Republican Lenny Curry 50 percent to 40 percent, with 10 percent leaving […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

On a sun-drenched Wednesday afternoon at the Southbank Riverwalk, former Jacksonville Mayor John Delaney, “here in his capacity as former mayor,” formally endorsed fellow Republican Lenny Curry for mayor. That ended a silence some had thought conspicuous and broke with his long-standing policy of not endorsing in Jacksonville mayoral races, as reported here Tuesday night. Before the event, […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

A new Alvin Brown radio spot is in heavy rotation on black-oriented radio stations in Jacksonville, in an ambitious, $5,000 a week ad buy designed to drive turnout in the black community. The spot contrasts “our Mayor” with “Republican party boss Lenny Curry,” a man who is running a “dirty campaign,” who wants to “turn back the […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 21, 2015

After a second poll since the First Election showed the campaigns of Alvin Brown and Lenny Curry in a very close contest on Tuesday, both campaigns had quick reaction. The Curry side, represented by Brian Hughes, optimistically predicted further gains with undecided voters, a position consistent with its contention that voters not in the mayor’s camp are […]

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Golf ball and golf club in bag on green grass

Alvin Brown calls for minimum wage increase

Denise Lee: Alvin Brown radio ad is “race-baiting,” should be pulled

LGBT issue forces Jax mayoral candidates to walk political tightrope

Alvin Brown orders review of discrimination policies

Email Insights: Lenny Curry team calls Alvin Brown a “Clinton Crony”

Vote by mail is picking up in Duval County

Alvin Brown, Mike Williams win Tiger Bay straw poll

John Delaney endorses Lenny Curry, cites “Jacksonville Values”

Alvin Brown radio spot: “Lenny Curry is running a dirty campaign”

Jacksonville campaigns react to latest poll