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A.G. GancarskiMarch 2, 2017

U.S. Representative John Rutherford learned during his time running the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office how to do more with less discretionary spending. And it appears he has brought that skill set to the Congress, where he looks to do some cost cutting at the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 1294, the Reducing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acquisition […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 1, 2017

Jacksonville’s two-man Congressional delegation, Reps. Al Lawson and John Rutherford, messaged to their respective bases in the wake of Tuesday night’s Presidential address to Congress. Democrat Lawson excoriated President Donald Trump as a “leader who is alienating Americans instead of bringing people together” and someone who delivers a “bunch of broken promises.” “Forty days after his inauguration, we […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 27, 2017

Former Jacksonville Sheriff and current U.S. Rep. John Rutherford was appointed on Monday to the newly-created Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States. The task force, a subset of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will begin studying gaps on how terrorists in March and present findings to the larger committee. Congressman Rutherford said, “As […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 24, 2017

This is a pivotal time in Jacksonville’s city hall. With complete turnover in the city’s delegation to Washington and opportunities created by the new President, majority turnover in the city’s representation in Tallahassee, a revolutionary pension deal currently being approved by the city’s unions, and the imperiled fate of Enterprise Florida, this is a make […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 23, 2017

Thursday afternoon saw a “constituent town hall” outside the Jacksonville district office of Rep. John Rutherford. The event, which drew roughly 200 people at its peak, was organized days ago: a reaction to the congressman choosing to forego the kinds of town hall events seen in other GOP districts during this congressional recess, events where […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 22, 2017

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. John Rutherford addressed a group of young Catholic professionals at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Jacksonville. Though the speech was about faith, there were some intersections with the political world — including Rutherford discussing his ongoing recovery from a January medical episode (he collapsed in the cloakroom of the House of Representatives), and […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 21, 2017

U.S. Rep. John Rutherford has no plans for an official town hall while in his Jacksonville-centered district this week. Yet those interested in catching the first-term Republican have an opportunity Tuesday evening, when Rutherford addresses the Young Catholic Professionals at St. Joseph’s Church in Mandarin. The event, which will be held at the “Cody Family Enrichment Center” on […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 3, 2017

Congressman Francis Rooney is calling on Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration, with a letter to the president saying that Everglades restoration “has far-ranging impacts to the entire state of Florida and the rest of the country.” Signed by the entire Florida delegation, the two-page letter was dated Friday. The letter asks that Trump prepares his fiscal […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 1, 2017

There is something comfortingly familiar about a protest in Jacksonville, and Tuesday afternoon’s anti-Donald Trump protest was no exception. The chants heard at the Duval County Courthouse were, at least many of them, heard before. At this point, “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” has been workshopped repeatedly in the Jacksonville DMA, and may have […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 30, 2017

While the twists and turns of U.S. President Donald Trump‘s executive order instilling a ban on refugees and nationals of seven majority Muslim countries coming into the United States continue, one Northeast Florida lawmaker supports what Trump is doing. Meanwhile, another opposes the Trump position. Rep. John Rutherford supports increased vetting of people from certain nations, even […]

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