Tag: Janet Adkins

A.G. GancarskiOctober 30, 2015
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Whodini posed the immortal question: “Friends – how many of us have them?” In the case of U.S. Representative Corrine Brown, she has plenty, including two groups of them: “Friends of Corrine Brown” and her new posse, “Friends of Congresswoman Corrine Brown.” And in a Friday afternoon email, the latter group warned about a “Republican dirty trick” […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 28, 2015
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[Updated 3:10 PM with Lenny Curry comments] In a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Jacksonville City Council Finance Committee Chair Bill Gulliford put the perpetually embattled Police and Fire Pension Fund on blast, in the wake of the long-awaited results of the forensic audit. Adding to the intrigue: former PFPF director John Keane had not seen the […]

Melissa RossOctober 21, 2015

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An emailed report from the National Immigration Justice Center (NIJC) claims widespread abuse of detained immigrants at the Baker County Detention Center. The report, “Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse” was released by the National Immigration Justice Center (NIJC) and Detention Watch Network (DWN). The report draws on information […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2015
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As James Rosica reported, Florida Judge Terry Lewis on Friday endorsed the Congressional Districts map drawn by League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause. That was a setback for U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, who issued a news release signalling her opposition to what she called an attempt to disenfranchise minority voters in CD 5. As she […]

Ryan RaySeptember 25, 2015
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Democratic state Senate candidate Andrew Korge came out swinging against Republican Rep. Janet Adkins on Thursday. Korge, son of major Democratic bundler Chris Korge, called Adkins’ private comments published in POLITICO Florida discussing how to defeat U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown by manipulating her district to include more black prison inmates “disgusting” in a statement Thursday evening. “Representative Adkins should be ashamed […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 24, 2015
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During Public Comment at the end of the Duval Delegation Meeting, Pastor Kenneth Adkins spoke on Janet Adkins‘s “inside ball game” comments about the redistricting of Corrine Brown’s CD 5, which were first reported in Politico. No, the two Adkinses are not related. This ensured that, despite the best efforts of the chairwoman’s agenda, the biggest political controversy […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 24, 2015
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In a Thursday morning statement, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown responded to Wednesday’s reports that State House Rep. Janet Adkins advocated packing Brown’s district with prisoners to complicate Brown’s path to re-election. Brown asserted, in a written statement, that “I have been saying from the outset” that the redrawn boundaries of District 5 make it a […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 24, 2015
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The Duval County Legislative Delegation meets Thursday at Jacksonville’s City Hall. Had Janet Adkins not made her now widely reported comments about the redrawn 5th Congressional District of Corrine Brown there might not have been so much attention on the meeting. Adkins had commented at a recent Republican Party meeting  that by “reducing the percentage […]


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