A.G. GancarskiJanuary 18, 2023
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The court filing claims CEO Davis is double dipping.
Tag: Billie Tucker
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 18, 2023A.G. GancarskiJuly 5, 2018
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Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has been playing hardball with Toney Sleiman, a major GOP donor, regarding his company’s management of the Jacksonville Landing. Having already moved to evict Sleiman’s group from the Landing, the city now wants Sleiman’s group to seek permits for special events held at the Landing (breaking a 30-year tradition that Landing events have not […]
A.G. GancarskiDecember 30, 2015
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In Jacksonville politics in 2015, the game changed … perhaps for good. Big money went into campaigns: over $10 million, including soft money, in the mayoral race. Close to $2 million in the sheriff’s race. And even some City Council candidates who raised close to a quarter of a million dollars did so in vain. […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 26, 2015
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Along with a couple of thousand others, Duval GOP Chairman Lake Ray attended the Donald Trump rally at the Jacksonville Landing on Saturday. He and other local GOP luminaries briefly met the Republican front-runner at the event, Ray said. “It was great to see people come out,” Ray said, adding that Trump is “the first of […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 24, 2015
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Say what you will about GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, he knows how to draw a crowd. Even an hour before his rally was to start at the Jacksonville Landing, a hundred or so Trump fans lined up, looking less like a political movement and more like dinner rush queue at the Golden Corral buffet. […]
Mitch PerryJuly 23, 2015
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The California-based Tea Party Express, which bills itself as the nation’s largest Tea Party political action committee, is endorsing Jacksonville area U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis for U.S. Senate in Florida. “Complacency with the status quo is one of the most dangerous diseases in Washington, D.C., but it’s a disease the Tea Party activists throughout America […]
A.G. GancarskiJuly 15, 2015
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Billie Tucker is one of the leading forces in recent years in Jacksonville, Florida’s right wing. The founder of the First Coast Tea Party and impresario behind the Leaderboard Luncheon series that saw Alvin Brown appear and make a doomed play for the right, Tucker reached out to invite Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry to two upcoming events: Thursday’s […]
Mitch PerryJuly 13, 2015
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A Jacksonville-based conservative group named Grassroots For Victory USA led by former First Coast Tea Party founder Billie Tucker will soon begin a national tour touting conservative values before the upcoming election year. Among its members is former Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, who will be political and government affairs adviser for the group. Grassroots For Victory USA was […]
Mitch PerryMarch 17, 2015
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Debbie Dooley, a founding member of the national tea party and a leader of the Atlanta Tea Party, says she always looked up to Ralph Reed as a national icon — until she volunteered on his 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor in Georgia. So she says she’s not surprised that the Florida offshoot of the group that […]
Mitch PerryMarch 17, 20157min153
Debbie Dooley, a founding member of the national tea party and a leader of the Atlanta Tea Party, says she always looked up to Ralph Reed as a national icon — until she volunteered on his 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor in Georgia. So she says she’s not surprised that the Florida offshoot of the group that […]