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Melissa RossApril 21, 2015

One of the most heated Jacksonville City races heading into the May runoff is the testy matchup between former mayor Tommy Hazouri and business owner Geoff Youngblood. The two sparred repeatedly during a Monday night debate, one of four held in libraries across the city and sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 19, 2015

Absentee voting has already started in the Duval County runoff election, and Lenny Curry wants his voters to know it, if an email from the Curry mayoral campaign is any indication. “While the election is on May 19th, you don’t have to wait until then to vote,” the email says. “You can mail in your absentee […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 17, 2015

The monthly meeting of the Jacksonville Tiger Bay Club included an At Large Council candidate forum. Three races have runoffs, and five of the six candidates were on hand. Ju’Coby Pittman, of Group 5, was without her challenger, and therefore did not have much to say much. Both candidates in Groups 1 and 3 were on […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 16, 2015

Democrat Mincy Pollock finished third in the First Election against fellow Democrat Tommy Hazouri and Republican Geoff Youngblood. A Democrat in good standing, he was expected by those who have expectations in such matters to endorse Hazouri. But it doesn’t look imminent. “Election Night, I got a call from both campaigns, valuing what we accomplished,” Pollock said. “When […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 15, 2015

March fundraising numbers for Jacksonville campaigns show surprises in the mayoral race and PAC accounts. Though the most interesting narrative is that of Alvin Brown‘s fundraising, there are other strands worth mentioning. The big story for some observers, such as David Bauerlein with the The Florida Times-Union, was Shad Khan dropping $100K into Brown’s Taking Jacksonville […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 15, 2015

Former Jacksonville Mayor Tommy Hazouri isn’t in danger of losing votes to his Republican opponent, social conservative Geoff Youngblood, in the progressive Jacksonville enclave of Five Points. Hazouri, though, has to make a sale to those younger voters nonetheless, many of whom were pre-embryonic when Hazouri was mayor. An avuncular figure whose opponent in the First Election, Mincy […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 27, 2015

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With 16 Jacksonville City Council seats up for grabs on Tuesday (three candidates ran unopposed), there were obviously winners and losers to be found across the board. This post will evaluate the five At Large races, looking at who might have outperformed expectations and who didn’t achieve what seemed possible before the election. A separate […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 11, 2015

We’ve written before about Mincy Pollock calling out his opponent in the At Large City Council Group 3 race, Tommy Hazouri, for not voting to change the name of Nathan B. Forrest High School in 2008 when Hazouri was on the Duval County School Board. Hazouri has not wanted to address that controversy and Pollock does not want to […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 8, 2015

We’ve written before about Mincy Pollock‘s challenge to Tommy Hazouri in the At Large Group 3 Jacksonville City Council race. As we saw at the Tiger Bay forum some weeks back, when Pollock said that Hazouri was his “grandma’s favorite mayor”, the younger Democrat upstart clearly sees his road to victory as running through the venerable Hazouri, and today Pollock […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 5, 2015

As 5 p.m. rolled around on an unseasonably sultry March evening, those waiting to get into the Hob Nob straw poll hosted Thursday by conservative news station WOKV saw an interesting site sight: A couple of vans with the logo of the Rev. Kim Daniels, an incumbent At Large City Council member, rolled into the […]

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Sparks fly at Tommy Hazouri, Geoff Youngblood debate

Email insights: Lenny Curry makes play for absentee votes

Kim Daniels, HRO talk enliven Jax Tiger Bay council forum

Tommy Hazouri has a Mincy Pollock problem

March fundraising in Jacksonville campaigns reveals surprises

“Captain Chaos” Tommy Hazouri meets, greets in Five Points

Jax At Large council races: winners and losers

Mincy Pollock doubles down on criticism of Tommy Hazouri

Tommy Hazouri attacked for not voting for Forrest High name change in 2008

WOKV Hob Nob straw poll draws 900-plus to EverBank Field