Tristan WoodFebruary 5, 2022
3min0
Calkins has received endorsements from Matt Gaetz and Anthony Sabatini.
Tag: Front Line Strategies
Tristan WoodFebruary 5, 2022
Jesse SchecknerJanuary 10, 2022
6min812
His net gain was just under $4,600 month-over-month, thanks to active spending.
Ryan NicolAugust 11, 2020
3min353
Fabricio is competing against Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Nelson Rodriguez for the GOP nod.
Drew WilsonSeptember 13, 2018
6min312
With her end-of-August campaign finance report, St. Petersburg Democrat Jennifer Webb has officially surpassed Madeira Beach Republican Ray Blacklidge in campaign fundraising. Webb and Blacklidge are vying for the House District 69 seat currently held by state Rep. Kathleen Peters, who is now the Republican nominee for a seat on the Pinellas County Commission. The […]
Peter SchorschNovember 27, 2017
8min377
Over the last decade, there have been few Florida GOP political consultants as successful as Brett Doster. Official campaign finance reports link him and his firm, Front Line Strategies, to more than a dozen winning statewide or legislative campaigns, including that of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. Even if state records […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 18, 2017
5min374
The highest profile election in America right now arguably is the Alabama Senate race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore. With multiple women emerging from decades ago to depict Moore as aggressively pursuing underaged women, to such a degree that Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall, Moore is in deep political trouble. Republicans have […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 25, 2016
2min310
The Aug. 30 primary effectively was the election for a few Northeast Florida Republican candidates for the state House. Democratic candidates were not fielded in safely Republican House Districts 11, 12, 15, and 16; the Republicans now opposed only by write-in candidates. Yet these all-but-elected Republicans keep raising money, as campaign finance reports for the period […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016
1min197
Like his fellow Jacksonville Republican Clay Yarborough in House District 12, Rep. Jay Fant of House District 15 faces no serious competition in November. His opponent is a write-in. Despite not having a real opponent, odds are good those on Jacksonville’s Westside will see a Fant spot on television before Election Day. Fant spent $9,750 with Front Line Strategies […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 31, 2016
15min282
The northeast Florida primaries have been in the books for almost 24 hours at this writing. A review of the winners — and the losers — goes beyond the election returns to look at what happened to create these outcomes that will, in historical retrospect, seem inevitable. Winners Lenny Curry — The chattering classes told him he couldn’t get […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2016
3min207
A leitmotif in the House District 11 race has been the past of Donnie Horner, who was until recently a Democrat. Horner’s Twitter history has already been excavated and put forth on several Florida political websites. And now, just in time for early voting, a greatest hits mail piece positions Horner, in the words of Beyonce, […]