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A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2016

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A surprisingly common thread in coverage of Wednesday’s Donald Trump rally in Jacksonville media was the disconnect between his description of Jacksonville’s post-industrial economic devastation and the message put forth by local politicians and the business community. Among Trump’s assertions: “This area has been devastated by the loss of industrial jobs …. As you stand here thinking […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 4, 2016

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has been rolling out his leadership teams around the state this week, and Thursday was the Jacksonville/Gainesville markets’ turn. Ahead of an Aug. 30 challenge from Manatee homebuilder Carlos Beruff, Rubio’s team is intending to flash all of the institutional support a popular incumbent typically would have. Prominent names include Congressmen Ron DeSantis and Ander […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2016

Wednesday evening, GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump made his first post-nomination visit to Jacksonville, where there were some changes from his previous visit. Unlike in October, when support from the establishment wing of the party was light, three rows of VIPS were assembled behind him. And also unlike in October, the sauna conditions of the Jacksonville Landing […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2016

Running the risk of courting controversy with the local press, and perhaps some friction with Democrats and independents ahead of the Aug. 30 pension tax referendum, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry served as master of ceremonies at the Donald Trump rally Wednesday in front of a crowd of roughly 8,000 Trump supporters, which filled out further after his portion […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2016

Along the lines of its commercials, currently airing on Jacksonville television in heavy rotation, “Yes for Jacksonville” pushed out a long-form web video this week as part of its closing argument for why the half-cent sales tax should be extended to re-amortize and retire the $2.7 billion unfunded actuarial liability faced by Jacksonville’s public pensions. […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 2, 2016

For the first time since an October rally at the Jacksonville Landing, GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump will be in Jacksonville, this time at 7 p.m. at the Veterans’ Memorial Arena. Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will be there, his office confirms. However, when FloridaPolitics.com asked Curry’s office questions related to Trump’s contretemps with Khizr Khan and […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 1, 2016

On Monday, Jacksonville’s Director of Blight Initiatives Denise Lee tendered her resignation from the Lenny Curry administration. However, she will be helping to market the pension tax referendum as part of “Yes for Jacksonville,” Lee told FloridaPolitics.com Monday. Lee, a Democrat on Jacksonville’s City Council until 2015 who notably counter-messaged advertising from Mayor Alvin Brown as “race baiting,” […]

Guest AuthorJuly 29, 2016

Imagine that, for the next 30 years, you had to forfeit a quarter of every post-tax dollar you earn. And imagine you get nothing in return; rather, all those quarters just corrode at the bottom of a wishing well. Doesn’t sound appealing, does it? That’s basically what we’re doing as a city. Nearly 25 percent […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2016

The 2015 mayoral election between incumbent Alvin Brown and challenger Lenny Curry was decided by numerous factors. But one that shouldn’t be forgotten was Brown’s frayed relationship with the Jacksonville beach communities of Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach, and Neptune Beach. Brown, described as a “nonexistent” leader by beaches politicians, went to Jacksonville Beach last spring […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2016

On Monday, an emphatic Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry pushed back against the untimely release of a draft version of a sheriff’s task force report saying County Referendum 1 — extending the current half-cent sales tax to address pension costs — wasn’t going far enough without a millage hike accompanying it. The genesis of the Monday morning presser […]

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Jax leaders demur in addressing Donald Trump’s description of local economic devastation

Marco Rubio’s Northeast Florida leadership team shows institutional strength

Donald Trump hits Duval County, contradicts local establishment job messaging

Lenny Curry serves as master of ceremonies on the Trump Train

‘Yes for Jacksonville’ releases longform web video pushing pension tax

Tommy Hazouri talks Lenny Curry, Donald Trump, and pension tax push to Dems

Denise Lee takes leave from Lenny Curry administration to work for ‘Yes for Jacksonville’

Matt Brockelman: Why we must vote yes on Lenny Curry’s Jax pension tax referendum

Lenny Curry, Bill Gulliford pitch Beaches skeptics on shared sacrifice of pension tax

Lenny Curry describes leak of task force draft report panning pension tax as ‘purely political’