Mayor Brown the Self Promoter

[CityLife]

Interesting comments from the incoming Council President.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-05-30/story/council-leader-criticizes-jacksonville-mayor-alvin-browns-self-promotion

I agree that the Jazz fest thing was just ridiculous. I was pretty pissed off when I looked up and saw "Mayor Brown Presents Jacksonville Jazz Festival" in lights on a building last weekend. Anyone happen to take a picture of it?

[MEGATRON]

Glad some finally had the stones to step up and say it.

[copperfiend]

I am stunned that a politician soon to be up for re-election is a self promoter. Why can't he be more like Governer Scott or President Obama?

[tufsu1]

because he has been a self promoter since day 1....note that emails from City staff end with the tagline "Connect with Mayor Brown" and links to COJ Facebook, twitter, etc.

[fsujax]

he is definately over the top with some of this. always has a camera person close by.

[CityLife]

This is the COJ's official "Featured News" page...interesting

http://www.coj.net/welcome/news.aspx?page=1

[thelakelander]

Lol, so 9 out of 10 featured stories mention "mayor" in the title. Very interesting....

[CityLife]

10 of 10 stories on the 2nd page either have Mayor in the title or a picture of the Mayor. So 19 of 20 mentions in the first 2 pages.

[CityLife]

I am stunned that a politician soon to be up for re-election is a self promoter. Why can't he be more like Governer Scott or President Obama?

I wish Obama and Scott could be more like Brown. For starters.

President Obama Presents: The Super Bowl
Rick Scott Presents: Disney's Fireworks Spectacular

[TheCat]

[Riverrat]

Yes. He self-promotes...he's probably the first to really embrace the concept in Jacksonville politics...but I think it's damn smart. Calm down...there are WAY MORE IMPORTANT things to spend our time on than worrying about the self-promotions of the mayor. 

[CityLife]

Yes. He self-promotes...he's probably the first to really embrace the concept in Jacksonville politics...but I think it's damn smart. Calm down...there are WAY MORE IMPORTANT things to spend our time on than worrying about the self-promotions of the mayor. 

Calmer than you are Mr. Capital Letters...Calmer than you are.

No its actually not smart to be a self promoter in politics, especially at the local level where everyone can very easily tell if you are doing a good job. Getting things done and being good at your job is all you need to do. What Brown is doing/has done has driven a rift between him and Council, has hurt the morale of staff because they feel they get no credit, and wasted countless hours of his time that could be better served actually doing things.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather have my Mayor working on policy and big picture items, than shaking hands and taking pictures at a 4H function.

[Jaxson]

Don't big city mayors do this kind of stuff on the regular?  I can already think of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago where the mayors have been traditionally larger than life.  What makes Mayor Brown look like an anomaly instead of the norm, however, is that he succeeded a relatively low-key mayor who was not known for being out in the community as much.  But, if we look back to the 1970s and 1980s, we can look back to mayors like Tanzler and Godbold who were public in their promotion of Jacksonville and their respective agendas. 

[triclops i]

http://sheltonhull.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/all-up-in-it-notes-on-mayor-browns-self-promotional-streak/

Shelton Hull's take....

[JeffreyS]

If you are in a business where people choose you pageant style you had better self promote. It would be dumb not to. This whole thread is petty.