Are the articles from Florida Politics getting weird to anyone else?

[Jax native]

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/182305-why-joseph-hogan-endorsed-alvin-brown

Tony has evolved from a sport writer to a political writer while offering some insightful articles on local elections.  His absolute love for Curry has clouded his recent writings and now he has written an entire article based on his twitter interaction.  He has deviated right from his non partisan writings to a political hack for Curry. Is he promised a media gig w/ Curry?  Having full time work is important to freelance writers, but I feel we are being hoodwinked by his sudden departure from thoughtful, interesting articles to full blown ads for Curry. The articles which were previously "must read" grew to "oh my, why"? Personal opinion, as I am not stating facts for full disclosure to one who wants links before I write a comment. 

[Tacachale]

Gankarski is definitely one of the most interesting and valuable writers covering this generally dull campaign. I'm very he's not just giving Brown a pass, as most of our media are doing. If that makes him pro-Curry, I guess reality is pro-Curry, or at least against Brown.

[fieldafm]

The Hogan camp blamed the party for losing 4 years ago. Sore losers often want payback.

People fail (all the time). The best people figure out what they did wrong, fix it and move on. If you want to simply blame others and enact revenge instead, that sure does say a lot...

This from the same family that was playing election blackjack with Robin Lumb,  wheeling and dealing for seats at the table. Sorry but the word 'integrity' doesn't come to mind here.

[Tacachale]

^Good point. It does come off as  sour grapes from the camp who lost four years ago.

[Jax native]

Gankarski is definitely one of the most interesting and valuable writers covering this generally dull campaign. I'm very he's not just giving Brown a pass, as most of our media are doing. If that makes him pro-Curry, I guess reality is pro-Curry, or at least against Brown.

There is absolutely NO debate about this.  Without his articles in the last 6 -9 months, many, if not most citizens were be uninformed, on the many important events and nuances.   I just hope he continues writing about politics for Florida Politics and the many other free lance writing gigs he has.  I don't want to lose his brilliant insight to the mayors office. 

The Hogan Jr. article seemed out of left field and left many to make assumptions that may or may not be true. 

[Tacachale]

^People who believe that as weak as Curry may appear as a candidate, Brown is even worse as a mayor.

[Tacachale]

Curry has management experience, which Alvin does not, even after four years as the city's CEO. Curry also knows how to run budgets, which will also be a very nice change of pace. I really think Curry is a more moderate, cooperative person than it appears from his campaign, and he'll turn out to be a better mayor than his detractors may think. But yes, it's entirely his fault for allowing his public image to shape up like it has. He'll have some cleaning up to do. Then again, you can't always tell how a politician will be from their campaign; for instance, Alvin ran a very good campaign in 2011, and...

[Tacachale]

If you haven't noticed by now, you're unlikely to get a rise out of me with rhetoric, so feel free to conserve some energy.

Curry has held management positions for like 20 years. He was at PWC and now runs his own accounting firm, ICX Group. That's also how he has accounting experience. Curry also ran the statewide Republican Party for several years and the Duval party before that, I think. This sets him apart from his competition, who hasn't successfully run anything, either before or since getting elected.

[Cheshire Cat]

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/182305-why-joseph-hogan-endorsed-alvin-brown

Tony has evolved from a sport writer to a political writer while offering some insightful articles on local elections.  His absolute love for Curry has clouded his recent writings and now he has written an entire article based on his twitter interaction.  He has deviated right from his non partisan writings to a political hack for Curry. Is he promised a media gig w/ Curry?  Having full time work is important to freelance writers, but I feel we are being hoodwinked by his sudden departure from thoughtful, interesting articles to full blown ads for Curry. The articles which were previously "must read" grew to "oh my, why"? Personal opinion, as I am not stating facts for full disclosure to one who wants links before I write a comment. 

Yes, he is jumping down too many "rabbit holes".  It comes off as creating a story line to report as opposed to good investigative work as he did with the Kimberly Daniels information. It is the implied drama surrounding benign events that is impacting his reporting in a non productive way.  You can only cry wolf to create reading excitement for so long.  Too much stale bread and not enough meat.  I like AG by the way, but "busy work" as opposed to work of value doesn't play well in the long run.  I am not trying to insult him in any way, just hoping that he takes a step back and pays attention to recent responses to his work.  Positive criticism is what I am going for here. 

[Jax native]

Joe Hogan is a smart and independent thinker.  And shame on Tony for enabling the Curry campaign to pretend that Joe voted simply because his father lost an election a few years ago. 

I suppose that I should vote like my parents and grandparents then?

Ridiculous on the face of it, and I say that as a lifelong friend of Tony.  This is not something that he thought through.

Joe is conservative socially, and he likes dialogue and discourse. Lenny is certainly none of those things.  Really other than a few old political allies and a few groups who don't really like the liberals, the minorities or any sense of christian charity, who in their right minds would back this highly partisan reptile?  And of course, exactly as he did with Bishop, the character assassination and sour grapes reality of this hack came out right away with a personal attack on Hogan:

As well, Hogan relates, his move can partially be framed as a brushback pitch aimed at the heads of Curry's core supporters.

"I think Lenny's campaign has been divisive for the party. There is a small group of people that want to control the Mayor's office, including who is in it. They helped put Alvin in office and then they dropped him for someone else," Hogan contended.

As well, "Lenny's actions with the REC vote and his style of campaigning would be seen in his administration. A true leader would not have allowed that type of behavior to happen," said Hogan, in reference to the drama at the January meeting of the Republican Executive Committee in which the decision was made to endorse Curry over Bill Bishop, a move which seems to have catalyzed ill will that led to the departure of many key Bishop staffers to the Democratic Party (at least two in compensated roles), and the eventual Bishop endorsement of Brown.

Not surprisingly, the Curry campaign downplays the impact of this endorsement. As Brian Hughes, Curry's spokesman, said on Sunday morning, "the son of a candidate who lost in a mayor's race four years ago is news?"

What a serial jerk.

I agree, and I also really care about Tony whom I've known about 5 years.  I was first blown away when I listening to First Coast Connect w/ Melissa Ross last friday at "news round table'.  Tony blatantly said, "Curry is the only one running a positive campaign", then expounded on this nonsense.   I was taken aback and I spoke of this earlier.  Who needs Brian Hughes when well respected A.G. Garcanski can do the same job?

[Jax native]

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/182305-why-joseph-hogan-endorsed-alvin-brown

Tony has evolved from a sport writer to a political writer while offering some insightful articles on local elections.  His absolute love for Curry has clouded his recent writings and now he has written an entire article based on his twitter interaction.  He has deviated right from his non partisan writings to a political hack for Curry. Is he promised a media gig w/ Curry?  Having full time work is important to freelance writers, but I feel we are being hoodwinked by his sudden departure from thoughtful, interesting articles to full blown ads for Curry. The articles which were previously "must read" grew to "oh my, why"? Personal opinion, as I am not stating facts for full disclosure to one who wants links before I write a comment. 

Yes, he is jumping down too many "rabbit holes".  It comes off as creating a story line to report as opposed to good investigative work as he did with the Kimberly Daniels information. It is the implied drama surrounding benign events that is impacting his reporting in a non productive way.  You can only cry wolf to create reading excitement for so long.  Too much stale bread and not enough meat.  I like AG by the way, but "busy work" as opposed to work of value doesn't play well in the long run.  I am not trying to insult him in any way, just hoping that he takes a step back and pays attention to recent responses to his work.  Positive criticism is what I am going for here.

Diane, you're correct.  Some Florida Politics articles are seemingly too much as "creating" stories as opposed to reporting on what is happening. 

[Jimmy]

This showed up on twitter the other day under #jaxpol.  Made me chuckle.

https://twitter.com/justaguyinjax/status/594214278120476673

[Cheshire Cat]

Civility aside, I think the tweet encompasses a growing perception, which is that there is definite bias where there should be none, unless one is writing opinion pieces.  IMO  Apparently others are noticing a trend which gave birth to this meme. That is not so hot when one wants to grow a readership across the board politically unless the intent is indeed to appeal to one political party.

[Jax native]

This showed up on twitter the other day under #jaxpol.  Made me chuckle.

https://twitter.com/justaguyinjax/status/594214278120476673

HA................just the exact thoughts I have had recently. 

[Jax native]

Civility aside, I think the tweet encompasses a growing perception, which I that there is definite bias where there should be none, unless one is writing opinion pieces.  IMO  Apparently others are noticing a trend which gave birth to this meme. That is not so hot when one wants to grow a readership across the board politically unless the intent is indeed to appeal to one political party.

I sincerely thought I was the only one, having not been on #jaxpol twitter feed.  It happened so fast, as I was praising Tony 5 weeks ago while talking with him.