Challengers in the 2015 Council Races

[Stephen]

Lets just make sure we get Jim Love out of District 14 and vote someone in who cares about every citizen in the district

[Stephen]

James Eddy
Will you vote in favor of a Human Rights Ordinance so Jacksonville can join the 21st Century?

[ChriswUfGator]

James Eddy
Will you vote in favor of a Human Rights Ordinance so Jacksonville can join the 21st Century?

Curious to hear this answer myself...as well as his stance on the general anti-business caterwauling that's been going on around Riverside.

[tufsu1]

I'm pretty sure Mr. Eddy got in the race partially because of the HRO debacle

[James Eddy]

Sorry not been on busy weekend. To answer you question about the HRO change. This is very close to my heart. I am currently part of the Jacksonville Committee for Equality that is a team working on bring this back up in front of Council in 2015. When I win and am honored  enough to serve the voters of Dist 7 and the rest of Jacksonville. I will get this bill on the floor and get it passed.With the help of everyone that believes in Equality. I am want to get other that are running on board as a mission to make this happen. Orlando Robles running for at large group 1 is one of them. Also to bring many faces and back grounds to the council. I believe in Equality for all not Equality for some. I believe in bringing my brother and sisters from all ethnic back grounds, religious, and sexual orientations together. If we work together as a city it can be an example to others not just a city to drive through to get to Tampa, Orlando or Miami. To answer about the question on the businesses need you to clarify the question. I want to answer it. I will be truthful I know I don't have all the answers but I know if we put the pieces together like a safer city, a cultured city , a growing downtown, a city for the future but also remembering our good past Jacksonville can be the city people want to Live, play and work in.   

[Stephen]

That is great news James...I wish we could get someone of your calibre to run in District 14..Jim Love needs to go..

[ChriswUfGator]

To clarify about the business issues, there is a small but extremely vocal minority of riverside residents who feel the solution to pretty much every perceived problem is to enact parking restrictions, zoning moratoriums, call code on noise complaints, oppose outdoor restaraunt seating variances, and pretty much whatever they have to do in order to stifle commercial growth. The alleged reasons for this have been as varied as they are stupid, apparently somebody peed on somebody's orange tree, and primarily the homeowners of some of the bungalows who have 3 cars for a 1 car garage have taken to feeling that the public street parking in front of their house belongs to them, rather than the public. The solution to this, according to this faction, has been stifling business growth. Jim Love in fact enacted a moratorium on new restaurants. What is your stance on this issue?

[Stephen]

A moratorium on new restaraunts? We should welcome any new business we can get our hands on..Jobs, money and a better quality of life..That is exactly why Jim Love needs to go..who will run against him and if he doesn't run how do we make sure we don't get another clone of him?

[James Eddy]

I am very pro business but do have to put the citizens in the mix. I understand why home owner feel the way they do but community change and grow. At one time downtown was the place to shop now its not. Before the Mathews bridge Arlington was nothing. When I moved here 15 years ago there was nothing after the regency mall going down Atlantic to the beach now there is. The south side near tinsel town had nothing. Now look at the town center. Two years ago river city market place was the airport Wall mart now its exploding. Things change some times for the good some times for the bad. It is hard to decide who right but to have jobs you have to have business and Jacksonville needs a strong economic base.

[Cheshire Cat]

This is one of those I am going to laugh instead of cry moments.  Look at what just happened to the fella who is challenging Kimberly Daniels for her at large seat on City Council.  lmao  This should be scary but consider this truth, Johnny Gaffney was busted for defrauding Medicare to the tune of 130k and was elected twice.  Lord help us Jacksonville.



http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=540755

Robles-Santana
City Council candidate arrested for insurance fraud
Friday, October 11, 11:20 AM EDT
by David Chapman, Staff Writer

A City Council candidate filed to run for At-Large Group 1 was arrested Wednesday on charges of filing a false insurance claim.
Orlando Robles-Santana, of 6169 Faulkner Circle, was arrested by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office after an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services.

The arrest was announced by Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater on Thursday through a news release, which said Robles-Santana reported his 2004 Jaguar sedan stolen after a carjacking by two men. He then filed a theft report and insurance claim for reimbursement of full value of the vehicle.

Officers found the vehicle a year later during a routine inspection of a local salvage yard. The business owner explained he knew Robles-Santana and had been asked to watch the vehicle while he was out of the country, according to the release.

"We will not stand by and let individuals like this steal the hard-earned money of honest Floridians," Atwater said in the release.

Robles-Santana was booked in Duval County Jail on Wednesday and posted bond Thursday. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.

He could not be reached for comment Thursday or Friday.

Robles-Santana filed to run against council member Kimberly Daniels in the 2015 elections. He has raised no money as of today

[mtraininjax]

A moratorium on new restaurants? We should welcome any new business we can get our hands on..Jobs, money and a better quality of life..That is exactly why Jim Love needs to go..who will run against him and if he doesn't run how do we make sure we don't get another clone of him?

You seem to be consistent in bashing Jim Love. You should throw your hat in the ring and offer up an alternative! The easy part for every city council person is getting elected, its governing that is the challenge.

[mtraininjax]

By Steve Patterson Thu, Jan 2, 2014 @ 7:33 pm

As 2014 starts, three former Jacksonville City Council members are already looking ahead to next year's city elections and their bids to return to office. Terry Fields, Glorious Johnson and Pat Lockett-Felder each left after serving the two back-to-back terms local law allows.

After some time on the political sidelines, they've decided to try again.

"I love politics. I love government and I love working with people. ... I guess it's a real passion," said Fields, a longshoreman who left the council in 1999, served eight years in the Florida House and ran unsuccessfully for a state Senate seat.

Not many people are worked up yet about the 2015 elections, but getting in the race now might have strategic value, said a longtime observer of local politics.

"We're still a long way away. I think maybe the veterans that are running are sending a message," Matt Corrigan, a University of North Florida political scientist, said recently. "I think it's hard to run a campaign this far away. ... It's probably hard to raise money right now, but you open an account and you see what happens."

Fields and Lockett-Felder are both seeking the council's District Eight seat, representing an area from Main Street at the Trout River to the Nassau County line. They're among four people, all Democrats, contending for the seat.

Fields had raised $16,000 by the time the latest campaign report was filed in early December, elections records showed. Lockett-Felder had collected $12,221, with grassroots candidates Lynn Sherman and Katrina Brown reporting $600 and $500, respectively.

Lockett-Felder, who left the council in 2007, did not return messages left by a reporter.

Johnson is seeking the District Nine seat, whose territory will reach from Myrtle Avenue northwest of downtown to Blanding Boulevard near the Clay County line. Johnson, who was an at-large council member until 2011, had raised $3,770 as of the last campaign report, which included a series of donations by district residents ranging from $10 to $50.

The district seat is also being sought by Garrett Dennis, who like Johnson is running as a Democrat.

Nine of the council's 19 members will have to leave in 2015 because of term limits, which voters in Jacksonville first embraced a generation ago. Three current members – John Crescimbeni, Warren Jones and Denise Lee – each left office after serving two terms, then were elected again years later.

[Charles Hunter]

Saw this, for Anna Brosche for City Council At-Large Group 1
http://voteannabrosche.com/

Not much substance, yet, but there's more than a year to go.

[Noone]

^Thanks for the heads up Charles.

[urbaknight]

I don't like the idea of the same ole people circulating through different districts of CC. What have they really done for the urban core in the past few decades? Please hear me, we should NOT vote any of them in again!