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A.G. GancarskiJuly 1, 2016

A new ad from 4th Circuit State Attorney Angela Corey includes footage from inside the State Attorney’s office. And now a representative of another campaign wants equal time. Brian Hughes of the Melissa Nelson campaign emailed Jackelyn Barnard, Corey’s spokesperson, Friday. His intent: to film an ad in the State Attorney’s office, along the lines of Corey’s, which Barnard said […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 28, 2016

St. Johns County Commissioner Bill McClure may be a long shot in the race for the Republican nomination in Florida’s 4th Congressional District, which contains Nassau County and parts of Duval and St. Johns counties. But he seems to be predicating his campaign strategy on opposition to the signature issue of Jacksonville’s political establishment: the Aug. […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 27, 2016

A new survey in the 4th Circuit State Attorney race reveals incumbent Angela Corey is in deep trouble and Melissa Nelson is poised to capitalize. The survey from St. Pete Polls, conducted on Saturday and Sunday by the data shop which got the Jacksonville mayor’s race right last year, sampled 590 likely Republican voters who had voted in either the 2014 […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 26, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is expected to address the City Council Tuesday evening, and the subject will be 2016-300, the ordinance setting an August referendum for the pension tax. Council won’t be a hard sell. The entire Council co-sponsored the resolution authorizing Curry to explore the referendum ahead of the 2016 legislative session, and the referendum […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 21, 2016

Kim McDougal is no stranger to Tallahassee. She’s spent years in the capital city, working for governors, the Legislature and the Department of Education. She’s been described as a policy wonk fiercely loyal to Gov. Rick Scott. And, after nearly 30 years in state government, she can add chief of staff to her long list […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 31, 2016

It’s getting chippy among the Florida Senate campaigns. Ron DeSantis, in a Sunday news release, trumpeted his fundraising numbers. David Jolly fired back. DeSantis asserts that his operation raised “nearly twice as much ($772K) as the Senate campaigns of Republicans David Jolly ($130K) and [Carlos] Lopez-Cantera ($318K) in the fourth quarter of 2015. The DeSantis for Florida […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 27, 2016

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis represents Ponte Vedra in Congress, and his wife Casey is a television chat show host. Carlos Lopez-Cantera has a campaign manager, Brian Swensen, who fulfilled a similar task for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. Yet it’s Todd Wilcox, the seeming dark horse of the Florida GOP U.S. Senate derby, who is best positioned (perhaps) to […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 25, 2016

Todd Wilcox may have the lowest name recognition of the four major Republicans running for U.S. Senate this year, but he’s just picked three high-profile Republicans for his leadership team: Brian Hughes as campaign manager, Eric Isaac as communications director, and Chris LaCivita as general consultant. “As momentum continues to build for our campaign, I […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 30, 2015

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. GancarskiSeptember 9, 2015

The eagle eye of Nate Monroe of the Florida Times-Union caught this one yesterday. A few months back, the Build Something That Lasts Political Action Committee was formed, very quietly. The Chairman, Eric Robinson, is based in Venice and Tallahassee, and is the registered agent for a couple of dozen PACs statewide. The group thus far has […]

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Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Image via Visit Florida.

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Lenny Curry to address Jax City Council Tuesday on pension tax referendum

Capitol veteran Kim McDougal selected as Rick Scott’s next chief of staff

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