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A.G. GancarskiJuly 30, 2018

As of July 20, the last date for which campaign finance data is available, House District 14 incumbent Rep. Kim Daniels is still well ahead of Democratic challenger Paula Wright. In the money chase ahead of the open Democratic primary, Daniels raised $7,642, and spent $13,420, between July 7 and July 20. She has just over $21,500 […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2018

State Rep. Kim Daniels, a first-term Democrat in Northwest Jacksonville’s House District 14, has been fined for filing a campaign finance report late earlier this summer. Daniels missed the deadline for the June 29 report, per the Division of Elections, with the report eventually filed on July 7, resulting in a fine of $450.96. That report […]

Drew WilsonJuly 23, 2018

The political arm of the state’s largest professional trade association, Florida Realtors, has announced endorsements for another 16 candidates running for state legislative seats in the fall. The new endorsements follow the group’s bulk endorsement two weeks ago that saw 87 legislative candidates get the nod alongside the Florida Realtor’s top-of-ticket recommendations, which included Adam Putnam […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 22, 2018

Arguably, the most iconoclastic Democrat in the Florida Legislature, Rep. Kim Daniels appeared poised to sail to re-election. Now, she will have a primary challenge from Duval County School Board Chair Paula Wright. Wright qualified just before the noon Friday deadline and told Florida Politics that education issues are motivating her run. When asked to appraise Daniels’ […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 29, 2018

State Rep. Kim Daniels is going to face an electoral challenge this year after all — and it will come from an unexpected NPA candidate, Darcy Richardson. “I’m running to win,” Richardson says, spitting in the face of the long, if not prohibitive, odds faced by almost every independent candidates. Richardson, an author of multiple books on […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 10, 2017

State Rep. Kim Daniels, an iconoclastic Jacksonville Democrat representing House District 14 in Northwest Jacksonville, filed for re-election last week. Daniels’ filing means that every member of the Duval Delegation has filed for some 2018 office, as Rep. Jay Fant filed to replace termed-out Pam Bondi as Attorney General last week also. Daniels’ major legislative […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 11, 2016

A Republican lawyer with an interest in Second Amendment rights. A GOP UPS HR manager who, when president of the Jacksonville City Council, led a quixotic effort to remove a nude photograph from the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. And who fought against the appointment of a university professor to the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission. […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 25, 2016

In Jacksonville’s House District 14 Democratic Primary, one candidate (Leslie Jean-Bart) is a trial lawyer. And the other, Kim Daniels, careens from legal woe to legal woe. Daniels, who has already qualified for the HD 14 ballot, is fortunate to have that much behind her … especially given that her divorce from fellow minister Ardell Daniels, which […]

Tag: HD 14

GOP money keeps playing a role for incumbent Kim Daniels in open HD 14 Dem primary

Kim Daniels dinged for late campaign finance report

Florida Realtors announce second wave of legislative endorsements

Paula Wright to challenge Kim Daniels in HD 14 Dem primary

NPA spoiler Darcy Richardson seeks to topple Kim Daniels in HD 14

Kim Daniels files for re-election to Florida House

Election turnover brings real change to Duval Delegation

Nasty divorce, foreclosure woes still dog HD 14 Dem Kim Daniels