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A.G. GancarskiFebruary 13, 2018
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Local Jacksonville candidates continue fundraising for the 2019 elections, and a leit motif is the relative uncompetitiveness of cash dashes thus far. The carnage starts in the race for Sheriff, where new entry Tony Cummings sputtered in his first campaign finance report, bringing in an anemic $525. That’s a car payment, but not nearly enough to […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 15, 2017
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Though it’s still early in the fundraising race for 2019 Jacksonville candidates, City Council hopeful Matt Carlucci continued setting the pace in August. Carlucci brought in $28,051 in new money last month, spending $4,489; all told, the former Councilman and State Ethics Commission chair has roughly $125,000 on hand. The Republican candidate will need that and […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 13, 2017
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Embattled Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown has a challenger in her expected 2019 re-election bid: Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks. Seabrooks (generally referred to, and referred to herein, as “Diallo Sekou“), is a legit community activist  who operates an urban farm, is pivotal in the activist group The Kemetic Empire, and who also operates summer camps for youth, […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 9, 2016
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4min390
What happens when a group gets thrown out of a Donald Trump rally for no apparent reason? If it’s the Kemetic Empire, they threaten to sue the city of Jacksonville, whose political leaders were on hand at that rally. The Kemetic Empire, an activist group dedicated to “human upliftment,” informed Jacksonville’s Mayor and Sheriff via letter it  intends to […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 1, 2016
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During his campaign for mayor in 2015, Lenny Curry‘s push from being slightly behind in the polls to winning the election coincided with concerted outreach to areas of Jacksonville for which the promise of consolidation was never fully delivered. Curry, last spring, made forays to Grand Park and other struggling neighborhoods to meet voters who were […]


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