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Comment by Alan Starcher on June 3, 2011 at 4:31pm

Isn't it interesting that our T/U editorial writer Mr. Littlepage rails against what he calls "corporate welfare" -- but he is all for this Everbank deal, writing in support of it in his screed last week?

Comment by Charles D White on June 3, 2011 at 3:33pm

Thank you for support I will keep you up on the happenings and I will be at JEDC on Thursday and we will need to be contacting our Councilmen at the appropriate time and from I what I am hearing it wil be the new council.

Comment by Jim Ryan on June 3, 2011 at 3:18pm

  I vote with Beverly Thornton,  withdraw all funds from Everbank.   And as for Mrs Weaver.

 I have rooted for the Jaguars since they came into existence and lived in Philadelphia.  That ended when she through her support to the Fraud.  Let all the games be "blacked out" and let them decide where in California they want to relocate.  Can't wait for the Florida - Georgia game and the college Gator Bowl.

Comment by JL Gawlik on June 3, 2011 at 3:00pm

Not necessarily Buddy, we have had two Republican In Name Only Mayors for the past two decades. You can not count on the party they say they represent, it has to be like our Founding Fathers warned, the content of character, principles and values. Once you have a party system in, they can manipulate the vote like they have been doing here in Jacksonville for the past two decades with Delaney and Peyton.  We really needed a fiscal conservative Mayor this time around to stop the over spending and make every penny count. The whole idea that the new Mayor is bi-partisan in my opinion is a joke, especially with Audrey Moran still saying she is a Republican which she is not, she is clearly a Socialist Democrat Progressive Liberal like the last two Mayors. Just my opinion.

Comment by BUDDY on June 3, 2011 at 2:48pm

Damn Democrat Mayer's, their all alike. Vote Republacan and everthing will be ok.. I think!!!

Comment by Beverly A. Thornton on June 3, 2011 at 1:50pm

Maybe the best way to stop all this is to withdraw funds from Everbank and do no business with them if they do relocate in town.

Comment by J.R. on June 3, 2011 at 1:49pm

Incoming at-large Jacksonville City Council member, Greg Anderson, Vice President of Everbank, has a conflict of interest with regard to this issue and cannot vote on it. That would be a clear ethics violation. It would also be a conflict of interest for anyone on the Council who owns stock in Everbank or has any kind of business connection with Everbank.

It would also be inappropriate, and I believe unethical, for lame-duck City Council President Jack Webb to bring this Everbank proposal up for a vote, especially if he has been involved in any way in planning or negotiations related to Everbank prior to the issue being brought formally before the Council---or in laying any groundwork for this to come up so soon after he lost the election, in order to try to shove it through before he leaves office.

Further, Jack Webb already has an ethics issue of his own for having verbally accosted, together with two other men accompanying him, FCTP member Debbie G., while she was campaigning alone for Matt Schellenberg, who subsequently defeated Webb.
It was also Jack Webb's good friend and campaign supporter, Tony Hemmerly, member of the Jacksonville Planning Commission, who was witnessed taking and dumping Matt Schellenberg's campaign signs. JSO wrote that up as "grand theft" and requested a warrant for Tony Hemmerly's arrest. That request, based on probable cause, was left sitting on an Assistant State Attorney's desk until after the election and may very well still be sitting there waiting for an arrest warrant to be signed. As far as I know, Jack Webb's friend, Tony Hemmerly is still on the Jacksonville Planning Commission. Whether or not he is prosecuted for a crime, I believe it is a given that his behavior in the matter was unethical This appears to be a case of selective law enforcement and it is unacceptable.

As Cord Byrd said below, using other words, it appears some folks are just more equal than other folks. .

Comment by Cord Byrd on June 3, 2011 at 12:46pm

The CEO and Bd. of Dir. of Everbank need to be drug tested in order to receive tax dollars just like all other welfare recipients. 

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

Comment by J.R. on June 3, 2011 at 12:40pm

This proposed subsidy gift to Everbank sounds just like national government subsidies that distort markets and transfer costs from businesses to taxpayers. Same deal... just lower government level.
Also sounds like it fits right in with Mayor-elect Alvin Brown's stated goal, in the debate with Mike Hogan, to make downtown revitalization a priority in his administration. Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that the vast majority of Duval County taxpayers live in the suburbs and many of them also work in the suburbs. So, is this how Alvin Brown got so much support and money from the RINO potentates who think Jacksonville is their domain... never mind the rest of us? If that's what they want, let them pay for it and leave us, the vast majority of taxpayers, out of it.
How do they propose to pay for this anti-taxpayer boondoggle? Will they take it out of the recently-passed, unaffordable tax-increased county budget that already has a number of high price-tag projects in it that are ridiculous to even think about with the economy in a recession and a potential second recession on the way?
Anyone who thinks this is an economically sound thing to do at a time of high unemployment, high foreclosure rate, high bankruptcy rate, increasing inflation, and already high county tax rate... and at the same time just moving the same employees from the suburbs to work in the downtown location, at an enormous cost to taxpayers... is a knuckle-dragging idiot.
Bring in some big businesses and industry that will create jobs and stimulate the economy in Duval County, to the benefit of taxpayers, and we'll be willing to consider that. Everbank? Fuhgeddaboutit!!

Comment by ROBERT S. BOURNE JR. on June 3, 2011 at 12:39pm

i just got off the phone with the mayors office and i was told this issue is still being tossed around , so please everyone get on the phones or e-mail the mayors office

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