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A.G. GancarskiApril 3, 2015

When it comes to debates with Lenny Curry, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown is “one and done,” according to the Curry campaign. Brown agreed to debate Curry just once: 7 to 8 p.m. on May 13 on First Coast News. His campaign refused a May 12 debate that WJXT-TV wanted to air. “Rick Mullaney, director of Jacksonville University’s Public Policy […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 1, 2015

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown on Wednesday got his first major endorsement of the runoff election period, from U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Across from Jacksonville’s City Hall in Hemming Park on a Chamber of Commerce April afternoon, Nelson threw his support to Brown. The endorsement is expected to raise Brown’s standing with white moderate voters upon whom […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 31, 2015

On the steps of Jacksonville’s City Hall on Tuesday, Bill Bishop announced he won’t endorse either Alvin Brown or Lenny Curry in the runoff mayoral race this year. Instead, he said, Bishop plans to run for mayor in 2019. On a sweltering March afternoon, the moderate Republican stood at a makeshift lectern before a cadre of local supporters and […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2015

The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2015

The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2015

While waiting for Lenny Curry and his family to arrive at Southside United Methodist Church, Curry spokesman Brian Hughes asked me to get out a calculator, to demonstrate that the Democratic advantage in raw vote totals was indeed shrinking. I subtracted the raw Republican vote totals from those on the Democrat side, and the spread was 3,400, a net […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 14, 2015

Two weeks ago, we reported on a Lenny Curry ad that WJXT TV refused to run, on the grounds that it used quotes from its news personalities to support its claims about the Alvin Brown Campaign. With longtime anchor Tom Wills describing the station as “caught in the crossfire” of the “first attack ad from the Mayor’s race,” WJXT ran […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 3, 2015

Lenny Curry‘s Jacksonville mayoral campaign has drawn support throughout the community, but the most surprising support to some outside observers may be Curry’s support among female voters. Our poll last week had Curry up 7 points in a hypothetical head-to-head election against his Democratic opponent. Central to the appeal Lenny is making to female voters […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 3, 2015

Lenny Curry‘s Jacksonville mayoral campaign has drawn support throughout the community, but the most surprising support to some outside observers may be Curry’s support among female voters. Our poll last week had Curry up 7 points in a hypothetical head-to-head election against his Democratic opponent. Central to the appeal Lenny is making to female voters […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 22, 2015

Lenny Curry’s campaign was quick to get its message out about Alvin Brown’s first TV ad of his reelection campaign, telling us that the “He Cut His Own Pay” spot was “a blatantly dishonest commercial trying to hide the facts” regarding Brown having “raised taxes and fees” while his “his cuts to law enforcement have […]

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Crowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)

Alvin Brown appears “one and done” as far as debates

Bill Nelson endorses Alvin Brown in Hemming Park

Bill Bishop does not endorse, will run in 2019

Lenny Curry surges into May runoff on "GOP Night" in Jax

Lenny Curry surges into May runoff on “GOP Night” in Jax

Lenny Curry, family vote; Jax voter trend may be GOP

WJXT anchor Jennifer Waugh recoils against Lenny Curry ad

Lenny Curry campaign announces women's coalition fundraising Luncheon

Lenny Curry campaign announces women’s coalition fundraising Luncheon

Alvin Brown campaign refutes Lenny Curry ‘Biggest Lie’ claim