A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2019
4min350
The Jacksonville Mayor and former Republican Party of Florida chair is running for re-election.
Tag: Denise Lee
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2019A.G. GancarskiOctober 18, 2018
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Former Jacksonville City Council member Doyle Carter resigned his seat earlier this year to run for Duval County Tax Collector. While he was eliminated in August, he didn’t have to wait very long for his next move in public service. Carter has taken a role with the city, as Parks Athletic Project Manager. The job, in […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 16, 2016
7min328
Those who have waited for opposition to Jacksonville’s proposed “pension tax” are finally seeing it manifest, just in time for early voting. With oppressive humidity in the air and a non-affiliated crackhead milling around the parking lot engaging with the media, the Duval Democrats made their stand against Jacksonville’s County Referendum 1 in a parking […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 15, 2016
13min482
“I’ve heard it loud and clear tonight. People don’t trust the government. People don’t trust City Council. I heard it tonight; a gentleman said he didn’t trust me.” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry has two weeks left to sell County Referendum 1, which would secure a dedicated revenue source (and an actuarial solution) for the $2.7 billion […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 2, 2016
3min300
In a press availability after her bravura performance in a Monday night forum in Jacksonville, Rep. Corrine Brown fielded questions from the local media. Among other insights, she vowed to release Quick Picks this month, but she did not say whether or not she would endorse the half-cent Jacksonville pension tax contained in County Referendum 1. […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 1, 2016
4min731
On Monday, Jacksonville’s Director of Blight Initiatives Denise Lee tendered her resignation from the Lenny Curry administration. However, she will be helping to market the pension tax referendum as part of “Yes for Jacksonville,” Lee told FloridaPolitics.com Monday. Lee, a Democrat on Jacksonville’s City Council until 2015 who notably counter-messaged advertising from Mayor Alvin Brown as “race baiting,” […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 26, 2016
3min239
On a crisp Friday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry thrilled some onlookers and alarmed others when he took command of a excavator to begin the deconstruction of a blighted, 12-unit apartment complex on Payne Street. This creative destruction was for a good cause: a prelude to the development of Payne Avenue Walk, a 12-unit affordable single family home […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 25, 2016
2min216
On Friday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will lead a crew in a building demolition effort. But it’s for a good reason: the eradication of blight, and renewal. A release from the mayor’s office asserts that “a Jacksonville neighborhood, once ridden with crime, will soon experience a “groundbreaking” effort unlike any other.” “In preparation of the development of Payne […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 18, 2016
5min255
Of late, Jacksonville media has been trying to reconcile what seemed to be a pro-HRO expansion position during the 2015 campaign with more muted support by candidates this time around. Councilwoman Katrina Brown was one candidate identified as pro-HRO expansion, according to comments she made to The Florida Times-Union last year, that were given a new […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 28, 20161min218
In a Tuesday letter to Lenny Curry the chairman of the Southwest Jax Citizens Planning Advisory Committee slammed Denise Lee, expressing “disturbing” concerns. The issue: When Lee “attended one meeting during the year she was quite disruptive.” Given two minutes to discuss blight, Lee said that “she couldn’t possibly discuss Blight” in two minutes. Chairwoman Kathy […]