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A.G. GancarskiJuly 11, 2017

If the Andrew Gillum campaign for Florida Governor were a ship, by now it would have taken in so much water that one could cue up the Celine Dion theme and the closing credits. Gillum’s fundraising, described as “anemic,” is no match for the resources of the other Democrats vying for the nomination: Philip Levine and Chris King have […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 12, 2016

A “hob nob” event, mostly involving African-American Democrats, takes place Friday evening at 6:30 at Jacksonville’s Salem Center, the usual meeting place for the Duval County Republican Executive Committee. The “JAX Political Hob Nob AND Straw Poll” will include U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown, Senate Candidate Tony Khoury, Congressional candidate Lake Ray, State Rep. Reggie Fullwood from House District 13, House District […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 7, 2016

The re-election campaign of Rep. Corrine Brown will face a new complication, as an indictment looms for her regarding the “One Door for Education“ charity. Documents, reports Action News Jax and other sources, will be served to Brown, with a news conference pending Friday on the matter. The head of One Door for Education, Carla Wiley, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 31, 2016

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Questions have emerged about Siottis Jackson, one of the campaign workers for U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown. Jackson has a troubled legal history with felony convictions related to financial transactions in 2011 while working at Ribault High School and in 2015 while working for a Clay County Realtor. Jackson says these are examples of “unfortunate lessons learned regarding […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 13, 2016

Florida Sen. Audrey Gibson raised no money for her District 6 re-election campaign in April. The Jacksonville Democrat likewise raised no money in February or March. Why has Gibson has stopped fundraising? In December and January, Gibson had been fundraising, bringing in over $14,000 in those two months. Since then, however, there has been nothing. Whether the […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 11, 2016

One would expect One Door for Education, the fraudulent charity associated with Rep. Corrine Brown, to factor heavily in the Democratic primary in the newly drawn Congressional District 5. One would be wrong, however. On Tuesday, the court granted “an indefinite continuance of the sentencing” of Carla Wiley, previously set for June 13. The prosecution advised […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 5, 2016

Is this the endgame for Mincy Pollock? Action News Jax reported Wednesday that the former City Council candidate-turned Corrine Brown employee is accused of money laundering and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Pollock is being accused of laundering money through a bogus charity closely tied to Brown. Those accusations are coming from Pollock’s former business […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 7, 2016

The talk in Jacksonville politics this week has been the subpoena served to Corrine Brown at the Bono’s on Norwood Avenue, a place that for African-American politicians in Jacksonville is as much a gathering place as Two Doors Down was in Riverside. Brown says that this is a “tangential investigation” that is driven by her political […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 4, 2015

In terms of Jacksonville politics, few have a résumé to match that of former Chief of Staff Chris Hand, who worked in the Alvin Brown administration for its entire four years, and before that was press secretary for then-Sen. Bob Graham and campaign manager for Alex Sink when she won as state CFO in 2006. Hand is working […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 3, 2015

In Jacksonville on Monday morning, in addition to addressing reporters’ questions about her district lines being redrawn, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown had another piece of business to attend to: launching a statewide petition drive for the November 2016 ballot to protect health care funding. The timing was not coincidental, since the news conference was called […]

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