Energized Jax electorate flood early-voting sites to cast mayoral ballots

[Timkin]

What an incompetent person to be running for mayor.  FBC would be proud. this way they could buy the rest of downtown... no .. wait.. Hogan would give it to them. 

This guy cannot end up in the Mayor's office.  That will finish downtown off .

[Ralph W]

Tonight I heard a JP Morgan/Chase ad that exactly sets the tone Alvin Brown should be using. If anyone in his campaign can find that ad and have it paraphrased or even blatantly copied I think it would shoot down anything the Hogan camp can throw out.

I was almost totally occupied with something else I needed to do so I can't even remember the words I heard. I just recall the tone and the message was just right. The ad aired during the TLV12 News segments between 5 and 6:30 pm.

Also, my take on the current Brown "attack" ad: Get rid of it! It sounds like someone NOT smarter than a fifth grader wrote it. Hogan may have received 13 raises over the years but so has every other public employee of this city.

UPDATE:

I found the ad:
Play the second ad on the page...
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2011/jp-morgan-chase-the-way-forward/

The tone is right and someone with a flair for writing can fill in the blanks between "Communities are built by everyone doing their part" and "Investing in the places we call home" and "This is the way forward"

Alvin's Downtown Authority will be demonized as a hole in the ground being filled with tax dollars with no end in sight, such as the definition of a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. I think the message has to be revised to include more than the perception that the few blocks dominated by the mini-skyscrapers, the Landing and city hall are all there is to downtown. Hogan's group is feeding that perception. There has got to be something else NOT called the Downtown Development Authority. Also, at the close of the ad the narrator says Alvin is a businessman, not a politician. That right there reminds everyone of our current mayor. Does Alvin NEED that type of recognition, especially since so many have had so many negative comments regarding Peyton's "business" approach to his time in office?

[Jaxson]

When did downtown Jacksonville become our Willie Horton issue?  This is absurd!

[BillM33]

I don't understand this, either. A booming downtown is vital to a flourishing Jacksonville. Cities the size of Jacksonville tend to have 10,000 or so residents living downtown, Jacksonville has only 2,000. This needs to change.

Brown has never said he would raise taxes to fund downtown, just that he wanted to focus on planning for a downtown that brings more people there, to live, work, and play, year-round. The contortions the Hogan camp are going through to make that a negative are hilarious.

[Jaxson]

Downtown is the new welfare queen!!!

[jcjohnpaint]

Stephen my hopes are riding high.  I think you are right!

[Jaxson]

I hope that Stephen is right.  I feel like I am an electoral jinx.  Every state and local candidate and cause that I have supported in the last two years has gone down in flames.  Can I at least get this one right?  Please?  Pretty please?

[Timkin]

Jaxson ,you are not an electoral jinx.. The situation(s) have not been the best.. What went down in flames for you ,went down for many others as well.   This is one , however, where I hope Stephen is correct.  I don't even want to think about the consequences of the other at this point