Fight for Jacksonville's Democratic voters not locked up
And it's not only fellow Democrats candidates have to be wary of.
Jacksonville may be a conservative town, but there's plenty of intensity in the fight for centrist and left-leaning voters in this spring's mayoral election.
The highest-profile Democratic candidate, Alvin Brown, is fending off efforts by at least two other candidates to woo Democrats: Republican Audrey Moran, who has said she's appealing to voters of all political stripes, and fellow Democrat Warren Lee, who has been vocal if dramatically underfunded.
Mike Hogan and Rick Mullaney, both Republicans, have made their appeals more frequently to conservative voters.
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Yet Brown faces a challenge, especially among white liberals, from Moran, who said she's bringing together people from a broad spectrum of political affiliations because the issues facing the city have nothing to do with party.
"I believe that party politics has no place in city government," she said. "That message has resonated with Democrats and Republicans alike."
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-02-09/story/fight-jacksonvilles-democratic-voters-not-locked#ixzz1DV7ZuyZr
Audrey is running a campaign county wide. Her appeal is broad and not "targeted". She has support from conservatives, independents and democrats. If her broad reach approach works it will help her to govern effectively from the start. This city will need strong leadership to pick up where the mayor has left off. Although he got off to a slow start and has been hampered by a bad economy he is finishing strong in my opinion. With that said, we do not have time for a new mayor who has only "strategically" reached out to certain voters. I find it interesting now that hogan (when you can find him) and mullaney now have started boasting they will actually cut taxes. Good luck on that. Our current mayor regrets that strategy and to his credit has made tough decisions to keep city services at a reasonable level. It is interesting that hogan nor mullaney haver never owned their own business nor met a payroll. Moran has. If they had owned a business they would understand that sometimes you have to invest in it to grow and move forward. You actually do have to spend money to make it. This is not meant as a personal affront to these gentleman, just an observation from my personal experience as a business owner and former councilman. Some of jacksonville's greatest moments were the many infrastructure improvements and more advanced sewage treatments just after consolidation, removal of tolls from our bridges that created traffic grid lock and the resulting high pollution smog downtown , the NFL franchise that has inspired our city and improved our quality of life, all of the new facilities and improvements from better jax, all of which required additional investment. All of which moved our city forward. We just can not elect a mayor who gets to office on political promises. We need mature leadership that reaches out to the whole. We have the chance to elect that person. That person would be Audrey Moran!
Quote from: mfc on February 10, 2011, 09:57:47 PM
Audrey is running a campaign county wide. Her appeal is broad and not "targeted". She has support from conservatives, independents and democrats. If her broad reach approach works it will help her to govern effectively from the start. This city will need strong leadership to pick up where the mayor has left off. Although he got off to a slow start and has been hampered by a bad economy he is finishing strong in my opinion. With that said, we do not have time for a new mayor who has only "strategically" reached out to certain voters. I find it interesting now that hogan (when you can find him) and mullaney now have started boasting they will actually cut taxes. Good luck on that. Our current mayor regrets that strategy and to his credit has made tough decisions to keep city services at a reasonable level. It is interesting that hogan nor mullaney haver never owned their own business nor met a payroll. Moran has. If they had owned a business they would understand that sometimes you have to invest in it to grow and move forward. You actually do have to spend money to make it. This is not meant as a personal affront to these gentleman, just an observation from my personal experience as a business owner and former councilman. Some of jacksonville's greatest moments were the many infrastructure improvements and more advanced sewage treatments just after consolidation, removal of tolls from our bridges that created traffic grid lock and the resulting high pollution smog downtown , the NFL franchise that has inspired our city and improved our quality of life, all of the new facilities and improvements from better jax, all of which required additional investment. All of which moved our city forward. We just can not elect a mayor who gets to office on political promises. We need mature leadership that reaches out to the whole. We have the chance to elect that person. That person would be Audrey Moran!
I agree with everything you say. We need a mayor like Audrey more now than ever.
Not so sure about that 'county-wide' statement. I see *far* more Hogan and Mullaney signs and bumper stickers on the South side than I do Moran or Brown. In fact, I don't think I've noticed any of the latter two at all around here...
Quote from: Doctor_K on February 11, 2011, 10:22:58 AM
Not so sure about that 'county-wide' statement. I see *far* more Hogan and Mullaney signs and bumper stickers on the South side than I do Moran or Brown. In fact, I don't think I've noticed any of the latter two at all around here...
maybe you should take a drive along Hendricks/San Jose...also keep in mind that many of the Hogan signs are at Sleiman-owned shopping centers.
Forget cutting taxes, what Audrey has going for her is the bankruptcy card. If Scott can discuss it, why can't the mayor? Take care of the out of control pensions and we have money left over for the City to operate AND invest.