Staff ReportsAugust 13, 2020
29min549
Duval County — the swingiest region in the swingiest of swing states.
Tag: Leslie DougherStock image via Adobe.
Staff ReportsAugust 13, 2020Staff ReportsAugust 6, 2020
28min505
It's political crunch time, and tensions are high.
Staff ReportsJuly 30, 2020
29min493
Unsurprisingly, this has been an atypical campaign season.
Jacob OglesSeptember 30, 2019
8min697
His focus is on moving forward — not on controversies of the past.
A.G. GancarskiDecember 6, 2018
2min478
Gov. Rick Scott rewards loyalty, and yet another example of that surfaced Thursday, when he appointed former Republican Party of Florida Chair Leslie Dougher to the St. Johns River College Board of Directors. Dougher, 55, of Green Cove Springs, is a realtor with Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty. The board appointment culminates an interesting few years for her. Dougher, a […]
Drew WilsonJune 27, 2018
5min510
Agriculture Commissioner candidate Denise Grimsley added a trio of endorsements Tuesday from past chairs of the Republican Party of Florida. Lining up behind the Sebring Senator were former Chairman Al Cardenas, Chairwomen Carole Jean Jordan and Leslie Dougher, as well as Wendy Bitner Rodin, wife of deceased former Chairman Dave Bitner. “Denise knows agriculture better […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 20182min252
Former Republican Party of Florida Chair Leslie Dougher has reinvented herself as a gadfly for Sen. Bill Nelson’s re-election campaign in recent months, including protesting at his events. Dougher, Gov. Rick Scott‘s choice for RPOF chair years back, has also not been averse to filing elections complaints against Scott’s opponent. January saw a Senate Ethics Complaint filed against Nelson, […]
A.G. GancarskiMay 4, 2018
2min366
The race for Senate continues to heat up between Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Bill Nelson, with the Democratic incumbent being dinged with an Ethics Complaint this week that Nelson’s team is calling a “political stunt.” Former Republican Party of Florida Chair Leslie Dougher, a Scott ally, charged that during an Apr. 3 event, Nelson used governmental funds […]
Darryl PaulsonMay 4, 2017
8min274
Florida’s Republican Party has governed Florida for less than a third of the past 150 years. After the Civil War, a coalition of newly enfranchised blacks, a small number of native white Republicans and northern carpetbaggers dominated Florida politics from 1865 to around 1885. After the blacks were stripped of their voting rights at the […]
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 27, 2017
4min340
Friday was judgment day for former State Rep. Charles Van Zant and his wife, Katherine Van Zant, via a hearing of the state ethics commission. The ethics complaints against the former state representative and his wife involve failure to disclose ownership of a condo in Orange Park. The income and co-ownership of the condo with Mrs. […]