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A.G. GancarskiDecember 30, 2015

There’s no doubt 2015 was an amazing year in Jacksonville politics. A new mayor, 11 new members of City Council, and intrigue in Corrine Brown’s redistricting saga were among a few top-level highlights. While we have a reasonable sense of what happened in Jacksonville politics in 2015, the next question is what happens in 2016. Hence, a […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 3, 2015

Someone in the Mayor’s Office likes sequels. Roger Gannam doesn’t live in Jacksonville anymore. He moved to the Orlando area to work for the Liberty Counsel, defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group. In that capacity, he represented serial divorcee and Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis when she faced legal issues for not honoring […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 3, 2015

World AIDS Day was on Tuesday this year, and most people understood the significance of it, including in Jacksonville. However, there was one notable exception, one given a national forum by The New York Times. One who has been among the leading voices against the expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance to address the needs […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 30, 2015

In the wake of last week’s piece about Republican 4th Circuit State Attorney candidate Wes White hiring two folks on opposite sides of the debate on Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance Expansion to collect petitions, White wants to set the record straight. Regarding one petition collector, Raymond Johnson, who enthusiastically advocates against codifying protections for LGBT people into […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 24, 2015

An interesting career move may be in the offing for Republican political operative Raymond Johnson, if a recent Facebook post is any indication. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for new community service officers, and Johnson has declared an intent to apply. “I’m applying for this CSO position to make a real steady life for myself,” […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 19, 2015

Raymond Johnson, an ardent anti-HRO activist and Confederate flag enthusiast, might not seem to have much in common with Reverend R.L. Gundy, who very recently flipped on the Human Rights Ordinance after doing consulting work for the Human Rights Campaign. The two men may disagree about adding six words to the Human Rights Ordinance. But […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

The campaign between Alvin Brown and Lenny Curry saw the current mayor routinely slandered and libeled by people on his putative left, with labels such as “party boss” and worse thrown his way. A little more than three months after his inauguration, Curry is feeling slings and arrows from a different direction: the right … […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 16, 2015

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Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, meet the culture warriors on your right. Last week, FloridaPolitics.com reported on the Rev. Gene Youngblood and his attempts to undermine the upcoming “community conversations” that start 6 p.m. Tuesday at the FSCJ Downtown Campus Advanced Technology Center, 401 W. State St., on expanding the Human Rights Ordinance to LGBT people. Contending […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 25, 2015

The never ending saga of Raymond Johnson, a Jacksonville Republican operative who has made news most recently for planning a celebration of the Confederate flag, continues to devolve in a remarkably public fashion. Johnson, a self-described political consultant, likely will be plying his trade outside of the constraints of the Republican Party of Duval County […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 24, 2015

Duval County Republican political consultant Raymond Johnson has been turning heads with recent activities, such as his planning of a “history of the Confederate flag”-themed meeting of the Westside Republican Club on Monday, which was intended to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the “Muslim-free” gun shop in Inverness. Additionally, Johnson has made news via his attempted fatwa […]

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A.G. Gancarski’s 12 predictions in 2016 for Jacksonville politics

Liberty Counsel’s Roger Gannam back from Orlando for 2nd Jax HRO “community conversation”

HRO opponent Raymond Johnson victim blames on World AIDS Day

Wes White: “Raymond Johnson was hired to collect petitions”

Raymond Johnson applying for Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office post

In Wes White campaign, politics make strange bedfellows

Ahead of HRO meeting, Lenny Curry and Jax Council attacked from right

Ahead of first HRO “community conversation,” Raymond Johnson seeks to frame debate

Raymond Johnson compares Duval GOP “establishment” to Nazis

Duval GOP having internal discussions about Raymond Johnson