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A.G. GancarskiApril 28, 2015

The Westside Republican Club meeting, held at a jampacked church on Old Middleburg Road on Monday night, was devoted entirely to the upcoming election. Though a lot of the media focus has been on where voters in the urban core might go in the May 19 election, turnout in Republican strongholds like the Westside is […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 28, 2015

In a new television ad, the first he has had since the First Election in March, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown asks, “Who’s on your side?” Spoiler alert: According to the 30-second spot, it is not his opponent in the May 19 runoff, Lenny Curry. The ad, which is infused with a “fighting liberal” ethos that was absent from […]

Melissa RossApril 27, 2015

Calls from the Jacksonville faith community to impose a 9 p.m. curfew in the city’s high-crime areas are getting pushback from activists on the ground in the Northwest quadrant. “In studies of dozens of U.S. cities, our research shows overall, youth curfews have had ‘no effect’ … in other words they just don’t work!” writes […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 27, 2015

It’s been interesting to watch the evolution and the dissemination of memes in the Jacksonville mayoral race. Just days after Mayor Alvin Brown made rhetorical overtures to his party’s left flank on issues such as discrimination legislation, a minimum wage hike, and the necessity of funding our local Safety Net hospital, UF Health, the Republican […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 25, 2015

On Friday, we reported on an internal poll from Lenny Curry’s consulting firm that shows the Republican ahead of Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville Mayoral Race for the first time. The poll showed Curry ahead of the Democrat by 4 points, and spotlighted some trends that would seemingly worry the Brown camp, such as a “dangerously low” re-elect number and […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

Lenny Curry has pulled ahead of incumbent Alvin Brown in the Jacksonville mayoral race, a poll by Curry’s consulting firm indicates. As Melissa Ross reported Friday afternoon, “a polling document” provided to FloridaPolitics.com by Curry’s consultant Data Targeting Research contends that the Republican’s “positive name recognition continues to steadily increase and for the first time – in our […]

Melissa RossApril 24, 2015

Choosing the classic Avondale café The Fox to illustrate the point, Mayor Alvin Brown joined the restaurant’s owner Ian Chase for a news conference touting his support for an increase in the local minimum wage. Denying the move was an electioneering strategy, Brown told reporters he supports raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, saying it […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

District 8 Councilwoman Denise Lee is a loyal Democrat, but she has a message for Alvin Brown regarding his recent radio ad, heard exclusively on local black radio: It’s “race-baiting” and “should be pulled.” “It is race-baiting,” Lee said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon. “I understand that a campaign is war,” but these “race-baiting tactics” are […]

Melissa RossApril 23, 2015

As a conservative Democrat in GOP-leaning Duval County, Mayor Alvin Brown has always had to triangulate. It’s a skill most Florida political observers think he learned from his years Bill Clinton‘s orbit (arguably the most skilled Democrat in history at swimming upstream in the South). Perpetually walking a knife’s edge on taxes and spending, not to mention […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 23, 2015

A mailer from the Republican Party of Florida touts Lenny Curry as a “unifying conservative with a plan to fix Jacksonville,” and its centerpiece is a message from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who wants Republicans to vote by mail for the Jacksonville Republican for mayor. Citing his frequent travels to Jacksonville, which Bush describes as a “special […]

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Lenny Curry, Mike Williams pitch to Westside Republicans

Alvin Brown asks “Who’s on your side?” in new TV attack ad

Curfew controversy latest flap in Jax public safety concerns

RPOF: “We can’t afford liberal Mayor Alvin Brown”

Alvin Brown campaign on Lenny Curry internal poll: “an act of desperation”

Poll: Lenny Curry ahead in Jax mayoral race

Alvin Brown calls for minimum wage increase

Denise Lee: Alvin Brown radio ad is “race-baiting,” should be pulled

LGBT issue forces Jax mayoral candidates to walk political tightrope

Jeb Bush urges Republicans to vote by mail for Lenny Curry