Staff ReportsSeptember 15, 2021
21min933
Jacksonville loses a favorite son.
Tag: Tony CummingsImage via Palatka Main Street.
Staff ReportsSeptember 15, 2021
A.G. GancarskiMarch 20, 2019
10min938
No Democrat ran against Curry.
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 18, 2019
6min402
Duval Democrats didn't advance a candidate for Jacksonville Mayor in 2019. Will that hurt them in other races?
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 12, 2019
2min296
Violent crime dominates Jacksonville headlines, but a new mailpiece from Sheriff Mike Williams' campaign tells a different story.
A.G. GancarskiJanuary 22, 2019
7min446
The first post-qualifying fundraising reports are in for downticket Jacksonville races in the March elections, and some trends are familiar while others are exciting and new. [Note: coverage of mayoral race fundraising is here.] The races for Sheriff and Property Appraiser see Republican incumbents Mike Williams and Jerry Holland with daunting leads over Democratic challengers. Williams has over […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 10, 2018
2min271
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, according to POLITICO, is on a list of nine potential Lieutenant Governor picks being considered by Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis. “The top cop in Duval County is the first and (so far) only sheriff to endorse DeSantis. If the campaign wants to emphasize law and order, the job might be for […]
A.G. GancarskiJune 7, 20181min285
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, a first-term Republican up for re-election in 2019, widened in May his cash lead over his sole challenger. The sheriff brought in $14,550 off 38 contributions last month. All of that money went into his campaign account, as he had no committee fundraising. All told, Williams has $192,000 in his political […]
A.G. GancarskiApril 9, 2018
2min218
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams is back to fundraising in earnest for his re-election bid, and both committee and hard money coffers are healthy after a strong March. Williams brought in $27,500 off 43 contributions to his campaign account, his strongest month since his launch last year. He has raised $179,450 for his campaign account thus far, […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 13, 2018
6min844
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. GancarskiFebruary 9, 2018
2min215
How to describe the January fundraising for political committees of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Sheriff Mike Williams? In a phrase: “Ho-hum.” Curry’s “Build Something That Lasts” brought in just $34,000, constituting the committee’s slowest month since May 2017. Except for $5,000 from Comcast, all of that money was local. The bulk of the $15,822 spent went to […]