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A.G. GancarskiNovember 24, 2015

An interesting career move may be in the offing for Republican political operative Raymond Johnson, if a recent Facebook post is any indication. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for new community service officers, and Johnson has declared an intent to apply. “I’m applying for this CSO position to make a real steady life for myself,” […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 23, 2015

In an exclusive interview with FloridaPolitics.com on Monday morning, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry condemned as the “lowest forms of human behavior and bigotry” recent bomb threats and Klan flyers targeting the community conversations about potential expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance to LGBT people. Saying that “public safety is my top priority,” Curry noted the Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 22, 2015

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The Ku Klux Klan, arguably the first domestic terror group, has weighed in on Jacksonville’s community conversations on HRO expansion. Weighed in literally, according to reports, putting flyers from “the Loyal White Knights of the KKK” in bags and throwing them, mixed in with rice, in people’s yards. This is on the heels of a bomb threat just […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 20, 2015

If the HRO expansion passes, a turning point in the public discourse might have come from someone who tried to silence it. It’s ironic, really, that white male opponents of the expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance objected to locating the so-called community conversations in what they called “high-crime neighborhoods.” The worry was that those delicate […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 21, 2015

One of the more positive developments, in terms of the revived effort to expand the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance to LGBT members of the community, was the enlistment of Southern Strategy Group to lobby for the effort. As I wrote in my column for Folio Weekly, now on racks throughout Northeast Florida: I like a […]

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Raymond Johnson applying for Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office post

Lenny Curry condemns anti-HRO flyers, bomb threat as “lowest forms of human behavior”

The KKK flyers and the Jax HRO

Case for Jax HRO expansion has been made

Southern Strategy Group no longer lobbying for Jax HRO