The Issues by Mayoral Candidate Alvin Brown

[FayeforCure]

What is the thing that I dislike most about local politics?  Many of us are simply too content with one political party having a monopoly on power.  The governing party has the numbers and the money and has no real incentive to listen to the people.  With voter turnout dropping in our local elections, there is even less reason for the Good Old Boys to pay attention.  If we blindly hand the election to the same clique, I do not believe that we will have any real solutions for our city's problems.
As for those who question Alvin Brown's experience, they seem to have a double standard on what it takes to be a mayor.  Prior to running for mayor, John Peyton had a skimpy background in public administration.  Jacksonville gave Peyton a pass.  Today, we are cynically looking for excuses not to vote for a man who has worked with a $4 billion budget, who has helped rebuild a hurricane-devastated city and who has worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce.  Not only this, Alvin Brown is not some carpetbagger who just dropped in from out of nowhere.  He is indeed someone who grew up here and pulled himself up to become the man that he is now.  

What's more:

In actual fact Alvin Brown has an MBA from our very own: Jacksonville University!!!!

Rather than a BA in monkey business: a BA in zoology from FSU

[Anti redneck]

I just wish he'd stop screaming jesus every ten minutes.

So help us Jesus if Mike Hogan become elected!

[Captain Zissou]

Hogan sounds like the old drunk guy at the bar rambling about what he'd do if he was king.  

If Hogan was running for a seat in Congress, I'd probably vote for him.  

Okaaay.

I should have qualified my second comment by saying I was assuming he'd be running against someone similar to Corrine Brown.  What I mostly meant by that is that Hogan's mayoral platform is more party aligned and focused on national and constitutional issues.  I do not believe that those are issues that have any place in local politics.  Any person that is running for mayor based on gun rights and free speech is in the wrong game.  I have said a number of times that I believe Hogan is focusing on the wrong things and that is what worries me about his campaign for mayor.  He seems like a nice guy, and on constitutional issues I agree with him.  This is not a presidential election, so I think his platform for mayor is completely off base and lacking in any real substance on issues that matter to this city.

Clever research and posting of out of context quotes, but if you paid attention to the points I was trying to make I think my message becomes more clear.  Just in case, I'll break it down for you one more time.   I think Mike Hogan is a decent man and his views on national issues are aligned with my own.  That being said, his platform for the mayoral race fails to address any of the issues that have caused our city's current problems.  He does even less to propose solutions for these problems.  I think his focus is misguided and that makes me very concerned that he would be a poor choice for mayor.  For that reason, I am voting for Alvin Brown.

Perhaps you should consider writing for the TU.  You have a similar research style to many of their writers.

[L.P. Hovercraft]

Ok, comparing the two candidates, this guy is sharp and should be the next mayor of Jacksonville.
I'm with Alvin.
Or to paraphrase Captain Zissou, I'm down with Brown.

[vicupstate]

The pervasive mentioning of Christianity by Brown, is possibly a pre-emptive strike to prevent the GOP from alleging that he is Muslim and/or supports subtituting our legal system with Sharia Law.

In that vein, he might want to voluntarily make his birth certificate public.  

[FayeforCure]

The pervasive mentioning of Christianity by Brown, is possibly a pre-emptive strike to prevent the GOP from alleging that he is Muslim and/or supports subtituting our legal system with Sharia Law.

In that vein, he might want to voluntarily make his birth certificate public.  

That is hysterical!!

[copperfiend]

And hopefully he hasn't been pallin' around with domestic terrorists.

[Jaxson]

Only one candidate for mayor has a proven record of lowering unemployent from 24 percent to 8 percent in an economically depressed area such as Harlem.  He was able to create an economic Empowerment Zone to create jobs and revive and urban area in need of new life. 
These kind of results are part of a solid record of someone who can help our city to the same...

[Wacca Pilatka]

I feel the same way as Capt. Zissou, not that my vote counts since I live in Virginia.  I'm a conservative, but Hogan's platform for a mayoral election is outright insulting.  He comes off as pandering to broad, national-level politically conservative points of view with barely a hint of local-level politics and not the slightest vision for the city.  I believe in Jacksonville's potential and uniqueness.  I've grown frustrated with its continuous waste of opportunity and resources, and failure to recognize its geographical advantages and historical significance.  I want someone with a vision to guide it forward.  Delaney had that; Godbold had that.  I'm certain Audrey had it.  And now I am seeing it with Alvin Brown.  There is more substance in the first five seconds of reading his platform than there is in all of Hogan's.  He correctly identifies problems and offers logical solutions, while Hogan is pandering to things I could agree with from a Congressional candidate, and what little he has to say about improving the city consists of broad, buzzword-driven platitudes.  And nothing I've seen from Mr. Hogan's campaign, starting with his avoiding interviews and debates, gives me any hope that he intends to seek input or interface with the public.  He seems content to strive to be a caretaker.  Mr. Brown seems to be striving to be a visionary.  Maybe there is more substance to Mr. Hogan than I'm seeing, and I don't doubt his sincerity or his resume.  But from reading these platforms and following the campaign so far, the choice between the two doesn't appear to be a close one.  It surely overwhelms my usual party loyalties and I hope that goes for a lot of other people who actually live in Jacksonville and can vote.

[FayeforCure]

I feel the same way as Capt. Zissou, not that my vote counts since I live in Virginia.  I'm a conservative, but Hogan's platform for a mayoral election is outright insulting.  He comes off as pandering to broad, national-level politically conservative points of view with barely a hint of local-level politics and not the slightest vision for the city............ (just) buzzword-driven platitudes. ...........  It surely overwhelms my usual party loyalties and I hope that goes for a lot of other people who actually live in Jacksonville and can vote.

Thanks Wacca Pilatka, my only fear is that "national issues" worked for Rick Scott..........his anti-Obama rhetoric seemed to pay off.
Yet Rick's only local state buzzwords "777" quickly turned to "666". So much so that nobody (except for hardcore Tea Partiers) want to admit they even voted for him.

Let's get the word out on Alvin Brown.

I'm outta here...........putting out signs.

[jaxlore]

" Hogan sounds like the old drunk guy at the bar rambling about what he'd do if he was king.  "

I like that. Please let us keep Hogan off the throne.

[PeeJayEss]

Hogan sounds like the old drunk guy at the bar rambling about what he'd do if he was king.

Wait a minute. I didn't know there was a drunk rambling candidate option. I hereby rescind my support of Brown.

[FayeforCure]

Hogan sounds like the old drunk guy at the bar rambling about what he'd do if he was king.

Wait a minute. I didn't know there was a drunk rambling candidate option. I hereby rescind my support of Brown.

Yeah, we can so identify with that drunk rambling candidate..............it's like going fishing with your favorite buddy  And that should be the basis of our vote!

Disclaimer.........I have never gone fishing, I am a vegetarian 

[Ocklawaha]

Sorry my atheist friends, but based on the voting pattern for the A-Typical Jaxson, Alvin is going to need all the JESUS he can get to pull this off.

OCKLAWAHA

[Timkin]

Well hes getting my vote.. and your Vegetarian disclaimer is noted, Faye