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A.G. GancarskiApril 3, 2015

Clearly, Republican Executive Committee member Jimmy Holderfield and the Republican Party of Duval County differ on the value of a loyalty oath. A day after Holderfield’s cross-party endorsement of Democrat Ken Jefferson for sheriff, Duval GOP Chair Robin Lumb issued a statement on Friday decrying Holderfield breaking the party’s loyalty oath. “We are profoundly disappointed with Republican Jimmy Holderfield’s decision to […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 2, 2015

The worlds of law enforcement and of party politics are both predicated on loyalty. On a muggy Thursday night at his campaign headquarters in Jacksonville’s San Marco neighborhood, Mike Williams scored endorsements from two fellow Republicans he defeated — Jay Farhat and Lonnie McDonald — to make it into the runoff. The story, though, was the Republican […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 27, 2015

The binary Duval County SOE race between Republican Mike Hogan and Democrat Tracie Davis went Hogan’s way by about a 9-point margin. Despite Hogan besting Davis, who ran her first campaign after 13 years working in the Supervisor of Elections office, including four as deputy supervisor under Republican Jerry Holland, it’s hard to say there were any losers in […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 25, 2015

The tortuous twists and turns of the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund deal continued in Wednesday night’s Jacksonville City Council meeting, as the latest iteration of the Pension Deal (one that was approved, before a series of revisions from the PFPF and Council, by a 16-3 vote in December) failed to pass. Rejected on […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2015

The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 24, 2015

The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2015

The Duval County Supervisor of Elections race between Republican Mike Hogan and Democrat Tracie Davis (current Deputy SOE) that has been free from negative campaigning changed Friday. A press release issued by Robin Lumb, chairman of the Duval GOP, posed the provocative question: “Is Tracie Davis Someone Voters Can Trust?” “Democrat Tracie Davis needs to answer questions […]

Kevin MeerschaertMarch 17, 2015

The Jacksonville City Council Rules Committee on Tuesday rejected the latest version of a bill to reform the city’s police and firefighter pension plan. Still at issue is whether the council waits three years or 10 before it makes any changes to pension plans for current employees. After amending the deal to include the three-year […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 21, 2015

A couple of news items came out of the Duval County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner. One major endorsement: The National Rifle Association formally endorsed Lenny Curry earlier in the day, as the Jacksonville Mayoral candidate announced during a speech at the event. And one non-endorsement: when I asked Senator Ted Cruz if he would […]

Melissa RossJanuary 20, 2015

Monday night’s Duval County Republican Party gathering ended with the endorsement of Jacksonville mayoral candidate Lenny Curry (albeit with some complications). But the meeting had another unexpected bit of drama when 26-year-old Jesse Wilson, a former Republican City Council candidate, writer for Void Magazine, and supporter of Republican mayoral candidate Bill Bishop, was kicked out of […]

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Duval GOP hammers Jimmy Holderfield again on breaking loyalty oath

Mike Williams gets former foes’ endorsements, but Jimmy Holderfield still a big story

In Duval Supervisor of Elections race, there were no losers

Bill Bishop, the spiked Jacksonville PFPF deal, and election year politics

Lenny Curry surges into May runoff on “GOP Night” in Jax

Lenny Curry surges into May runoff on "GOP Night" in Jax

Allegations fly in Duval Supervisor of Elections race

Jacksonville City Council panel rejects pension reform bill

Ted Cruz speech highlights Duval GOP Lincoln Day dinner

Young Jax Republican tossed from meeting bemoans ‘divisiveness’ of local, national GOP

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