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A.G. GancarskiNovember 2, 2015

The one-day “Jeb Can Fix It” Florida tour Tuesday made its third and final stop in Jacksonville with the Bush campaign’s attempt to reverse flagging poll numbers and waning insider buy-in. His event in Tampa saw him compare himself to Abraham Lincoln, saying, “If Lincoln was alive today, imagine the foolishness he’d have to suffer” […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 22, 2015

In late 1968, a book that would eventually called A Quiet Revolution was published. The first edition by Richard Martin, “Consolidation: Jacksonville-Duval County,” discussed the early days of consolidation and what led up to it. In 1993, a substantial update was made, providing the history of the quarter-century since the first book. From Hans Tanzler climbing the […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 24, 2015

Surveying the crowd before his Wednesday evening speech about Jeb Bush at the Main Library in Downtown Jacksonville, Matthew Corrigan surveyed the crowd of 20 or so political junkies and brought up former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew. When Askew got to New Hampshire to give the first speech of his doomed presidential bid in 1984, there […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2015

Political scientist Matthew T. Corrigan Ph.D., who is one of the country’s leading commentators on Jeb Bush, is coming to the Main Library in Jacksonville on Wednesday evening to discuss his latest book, Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida. This is an especially timely book, given Bush’s position as a top-tier presidential candidate, one who seems […]

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Can Jeb Bush “fix it”? A shaky Jacksonville appearance raises doubts.

“A Quiet Revolution” in Jacksonville once more?

Matt Corrigan talks “Conservative Hurricane,” Jeb Bush 2016

Matt Corrigan discusses the Jeb Bush campaign launch