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A.G. GancarskiJanuary 11, 2019

Last year, Democrat Ju’Coby Pittman was the less controversial of the two appointees selected to fill in for Jacksonville City Council members suspended pending fraud charges. Pittman, appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to fill in for Katrina Brown in District 8, launched a campaign for the office late last year, amid what was and is a crowded field. December […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 12, 2018

With Jacksonville’s leading Republican officeholders all in for the Ron DeSantis campaign, October fundraising for their 2019 campaigns was on the back burner. And why not? Though Jacksonville has a Democratic plurality, and statewide candidates Bill Nelson, Andrew Gillum, and Nikki Fried all won here, local Republicans have no reason to doubt their ability to hold serve based on […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 16, 2018

Jacksonville political veteran Matt Carlucci, a Republican running for City Council in At Large Group 4, was the first candidate in the 2019 cycle to clear $250,000 raised. He did that by the end of March, a signal that Carlucci — a former Mayoral candidate, a previous member of the Council, and most recently, the head of […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 14, 2018

Note: A previous version of this article indicated that a Council colleague of Brown’s, who had been pulled over by police, was arrested. He was merely interrogated. We regret the confusion. Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown has drawn no fewer than seven challengers for her District 8 seat. Six of them were from her own Democratic […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 16, 2018

Jacksonville City Council fundraising is picking up, less than a year before the March election. Below are ten insights (in no hierarchical order) into trends we are seeing in local races. —- Ron Salem holds serve: In the now-three-way race between Republicans Ron Salem and Bill Bishop and recently-filed Democrat Darren Mason in At Large […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2018

Let the “four more years” chants begin for two first-term Jacksonville City Council members. On Tuesday, Democratic Councilwoman Katrina Brown launched her bid for re-election in District 8. Days before that, Republican Al Ferraro launched his re-election bid in District 2. Brown and Ferraro face different paths to re-election. Brown has issues other incumbents don’t. She has […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 13, 2018

Local Jacksonville candidates continue fundraising for the 2019 elections, and a leit motif is the relative uncompetitiveness of cash dashes thus far. The carnage starts in the race for Sheriff, where new entry Tony Cummings sputtered in his first campaign finance report, bringing in an anemic $525. That’s a car payment, but not nearly enough to […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 22, 2018

How vulnerable is Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown? Fourteen months out from the first election, Brown (who hasn’t yet filed for re-election) already has six people lined up to replace her. Community activist Tameka Gaines Holly filed this month. A Leadership Jacksonville graduate with an aversion to taking strong positions on issues, she will attempt […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 10, 2018

Embattled and often controversial Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown will draw a new challenger on Wednesday: Tameka Gaines Holly. Holly is a community activist who went to school in District 8 (Ribault), has worked and lived there all her life, and will — with the backing of community stakeholders — be able to make a […]

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