Audrey Moran: Why I Want To Be Mayor

[stjr]

Audrey, I am thinking of supporting you for mayor.  However, I do want to caution you that there are varying opinions on MJ and throughout our community regarding how to address mass transit.  I, for one, am very supportive of making it a priority over roads (but not education) and agree with Ock and others about the need to advance commuter rail, streetcars, and an improved bus system.  Where I differ, is about the Skyway.  I ask you or one of your policy members to read the many threads on here about other points of view regarding the Skyway (see the Transportation forum and sort by views.  Many of the top threads are about the Skyway.).  The Skyway has a long history of disappointing this community and there are many here who have given up on it or see it as a boondoggle for which we need to cut our losses and reinvest in far better and more cost effective solutions.

Thanks for checking this out and looking forward to hearing your response.  It will be telling to me and others as to how insightful you will be in probing the issues of our community and not settling for superficial solutions that sound good but don't end up serving us well.  That change in thinking is what many are looking for, even if, in the end, we may disagree on some issues (an inevitability no doubt).

[arb]

A characteristic of a good mayor is one who listens to the public, whether or not they agree, and I commend Mrs. Moran for that!

[urbaknight]

Answers yet Audrey? At least give us a like or dislike for the following... we can always fill you in on the facts surrounding each. Hell's bells, I don't even care if you, once armed with the facts and figures, decide we can't do it... at least tell us if you like the idea?

SKYWAY, EXTENSION TO ATLANTIC IN SAN MARCO?

SKYWAY, EXTENSION TO BLUE CROSS/BROOKLYN?

SKYWAY, EXTENSION TO EVERBANK FIELD?

STREETCAR, HYATT DOWNTOWN TO PARK AND KING?

STREETCAR, TO SHAND'S/SPRINGFIELD?

STREETCAR, TO STADIUM (ROUTE DIFFERENT THAN SKYWAY)?

STREETCAR LOOP DOWNTOWN/DURKEEVILLE?

COMMUTER RAIL TO AVENUES?

COMMUTER RAIL TO COLLINS-WELLS ROAD?

COMMUTER RAIL TO AIRPORT ROAD/MAIN STREET (includes rebuilding a 3 mile freight-passenger connection)

COMMUTER RAIL TO BALDWIN?

MOVING AMTRAK BACK DOWNTOWN?

MOVING THE CONVENTION CENTER INTO DOWNTOWN?

BUILDING THE JRTC (JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL)?

LOBBY FOR MORE AMTRAK SERVICE AND REGIONAL RAIL SERVICE (Gainesville-Jax etc)?


OCKLAWAHA

Well oak, I couldn't've asked it any better than you did! Let's go with your verson of the question.

[north miami]

 
Can you share with us who is on your Transportation and Logistics Policy Group?

This excellent recent question bears repeating

[urbaknight]

What is the issue with turnout during local elections? We had 50% turnout for the 2010 national election, but barely mustered 20% during the 2007 mayoral election.  The 2003 election fared slightly better and the run-off better still, but having 20-30% of the population determining our future is disappointing, to say the LEAST.

And the ones doing the voting are the statice quo loving, sprawling, redneck, racists, classist, anti urban, arts rejecting, public transit minimizing, cronyistic idiots! We need to find a way to reach out to the majority, to those that doesn't feel their vote can make a difference. If we can muster all of those people, I'm sure we can get the change that JAX so desperately needs and deserves.

[urbaknight]

Please do Ock. I am 24 years old with a progressive blindness and have a driver's license revoked from DMV due to the vision loss. I am at the mercy of JTA Connexion and their absurd service in timing and consistency. Not limiting to JTA Connexion, but I do use JTA and its city buses too.

I will do anything to help out and push for effort in making this transportation as the number one issue in this city. Please, its not that I am biased to one and only issue, but the transportation issue is a very simple issue that brings the complexity. It also brings more solutions to other issues that the city have. It is kinda of the metaphor, "If you build it, all will come."

-Josh

I too am visually impared and must rely on JTA. Count me in on any public transit issue. I'm come from NJ and know a little about how mass transit is supposed to work.

[urbaknight]

Urbaknight, she answered the question.  They are still looking at the issue.  She invited Ock to drop off a full presentation.

My bad, I guess I should read the entire thread first. I just get excited to put my two cents as soon as something catches my eye.

[CS Foltz]

Well since Ock seems to have caught her with her drawers astray, I am sure Ock will be more than happy to show up with a wheelbarrow full of information for her! Granted, she could not be cognizant of mass transit possibilities or the variations there off, but one can hope she is smart enough to take advantage of a free informational source! Go Ock...........here is your chance!

[tufsu1]

I can assure folks that some members of Audrey's transportation/logistics policy committee are very familiar with this site and the various transit discussions....furthermore, the same can be said for her downtown policy group.

[fieldafm]

Isn't Marty Lanahan part of Mrs Moran's transportation policy group?

[tufsu1]

no....Marty is the chair of the Florida Transportation Commission....it is a state-appointed group that detrmines broad policy for FDOT and recommends at least 3 names to the Governor for FDOT Secretary

[fieldafm]

so... she's not with Moran's campaign team any longer?

[tufsu1]

I do not know...she very well may be supporting Audrey and involved on the campaign....but I do not believe she was a member of the transportation/logistics policy committee

[north miami]

I can assure folks that some members of Audrey's transportation/logistics policy committee are very familiar with this site and the various transit discussions....furthermore, the same can be said for her downtown policy group.

   *****We are patiently awaiting a freely provided list of Transportation/Logistics committee members*****

[north miami]

I can assure folks that some members of Audrey's transportation/logistics policy committee are very familiar with this site and the various transit discussions....furthermore, the same can be said for her downtown policy group.

  *****We are patiently awaiting a freely provided list of Transportation/Logistics committee members*****

which is her choice to provide of course.  It is a campaign, after all, not a public body.  I'm sure every member of the committee is proud to serve, but they are entitled to have a choice in the matter as to whether their names are bandied about.

When a candidate promotes drawing on policy groups I would think it is a given to expect inquiry as to the member profile.I would say don't mention policy groups in a promotional vein without allowing further transparency.No wonder we are where we are at politically.Makes the MJ discourse a bit fluffy.
Today's Littlepage editorial admonishes the public to "listen' to the candidates.A key insight on any candidate is not solely what is 'said' but who is supporting,and keenly involved.

Stephen,you are correct.
Simply await formal campaign policy position-dragging for group participant particulars may not be feasible or reasonable or prudent.Too sensitive,and properly propriatary.(Even references to a Carlucci dinner party bring up images of Joe Carlucci and sordid episodes when Joe was forced in to representing Clay County "over my dead body'" due to redistrict and Joe made amends to Clay by promoting Brannon/Chaffee (**Beltway**) and all that entailed with area State Farm persons and their close speculative chums such as Pittman and Official Record Book & Page(s).........................well,you get the picture)
I just sense the same politic River "advocates" faced in the early Delaney days and prophetic warnings that things would not go from bad to good so easily yet most were gullible with no sense of ability for predictive capability.