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A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2016

Much of the attention in the Democratic primary in Florida’s 5th Congressional District is on incumbent Corrine Brown’s fighting 22 counts related to the One Door for Education charity. And, more recently, to challenger Al Lawson and his campaign taking money from traditional GOP sources. However, there is a third candidate in the race: the underfunded Lashonda […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2016

With a week left in early voting, Congressional District 4 Republican John Rutherford is working to ensure he has the money to compete against the better-funded Hans Tanzler, with some personal loans and donations over the last week totaling $18,000. All of these contributions came in after the pre-primary report on Aug. 10. Aug. 16 saw Rutherford give […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2016

2012 — the previous presidential year — saw Duval County with a 20.7 percent turnout among both parties. With a week left in early voting, the GOP turnout looks likely to exceed that number; as of the end of Sunday, 10.46 percent of all Republican registrants had voted. The real point of interest is what is driving […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 20, 2016

Tuesday at 2 p.m. sees yet another procedural hearing in the Corrine Brown federal case, regarding the motion to withdraw from her latest attorneys, Mark NeJame and David Haas. On Thursday, Corrine Brown’s lawyers in her federal case regarding One Door for Education — a charity she was associated with that functioned more as a slush fund, according to prosecutors — […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 20, 2016

On Saturday morning, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown attended a breakfast fundraiser for her re-election campaign headlined by Martin Luther King III. Unfortunately, not everyone who expected to be at the event was there. Virgie Coleman, a 99-year-old woman Brown met during a visit to the Lane Wiley Senior Center where Coleman volunteers three times a week, was […]

Peter SchorschAugust 19, 2016

Congressional candidates Al Lawson and Annette Taddeo out-raised and outspent their Democratic Primary opponents over the last two months, according to newly filed campaign finance reports. Lawson is running against longtime Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown in Florida’s 5th Congressional District, which was redrawn to run from Gadsden County in the west to Jacksonville in the […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 19, 2016

After a debate Thursday night that focused on Corrine Brown and her legal issues, Congressional District 5 Democrat Al Lawson had to address issues of his own in the post-debate presser. Specifically, $14,000 in money from political committees since July 1 — many of which, such as U.S. Sugar, Associated Builders and Contractors, and I-PAC Jax … line up almost exclusively behind […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2016

“What if I said I thought you was a pedophile? You’d think something was wrong with me.” Those words, voiced on the debate stage Thursday night at Jacksonville University by incumbent 5th District Rep. Corrine Brown, recurred during a post debate presser where FloridaPolitics.com and other outlets asked Brown about her legal troubles, her financial troubles, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2016

There are rough weeks. And then there’s whatever Corrine Brown is experiencing this week, as she girds herself for a fourth change of counsel in her federal case and a re-election campaign where she entered the last three weeks with $25,000 in the bank … a number more appropriate for a school board seat than a run for […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 18, 2016

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A congressional candidate’s “pre-primary filing” is a good indication of how he or she will close, and compared to incumbent Rep. Corrine Brown (who has an anemic $25,000) as of Aug. 10, challenger Al Lawson reports $120,000 cash-on-hand ahead of the Aug. 30 primary. From July 1 to Aug. 10, Lawson raised $49,888, with $1,000 from Brian Ballard standing […]

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