Comments on: New Group Targets Quiggle With Negative Ads http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/09/03/new-group-targets-quiggle-with-negative-ads/ Your Independent Alternative! Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: singlewide http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/09/03/new-group-targets-quiggle-with-negative-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-2600 singlewide Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:02:54 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=5563#comment-2600 I remember that runway thing. Isnt that where Thrasher was representing that airport director John Clark who was the same one that hired his buddy Denise Lee to be a mystery shopper and pay her 20K to be a shopper at airport stores? We have quite a crowd right there: Thrasher, Clark, Lee. That would make quite a jail cell. I remember that runway thing. Isnt that where Thrasher was representing that airport director John Clark who was the same one that hired his buddy Denise Lee to be a mystery shopper and pay her 20K to be a shopper at airport stores? We have quite a crowd right there: Thrasher, Clark, Lee. That would make quite a jail cell.

]]> By: singlewide http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/09/03/new-group-targets-quiggle-with-negative-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-2599 singlewide Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:33:57 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=5563#comment-2599 Did Thrasher fly that plane he kept taking to Texas to buy desks in and out of Craig field ? Did Thrasher fly that plane he kept taking to Texas to buy desks in and out of Craig field ?

]]> By: Jim Cove http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/09/03/new-group-targets-quiggle-with-negative-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-2583 Jim Cove Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:40:41 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=5563#comment-2583 In the race to fill Jim King’s Senate seat, many influential people and high-powered groups are spending feverishly telling us how to vote. One very important detail, at least for residents of the Greater Arlington and Kernan areas, has not been discussed in the political ads. In 2007, residents in these areas were fighting valiantly against an amazing team of lobbyists assembled by JAA to win approval for expansion of Craig Municipal Airport. The team JAA put together included some of the most powerful local, state and national lobbyists. Sen. Jim King made an extraordinary gesture to stand with the residents against Mayor John Peyton, JAA and an incredible array of powerbrokers. He took time out of his legislative agenda to make a personal appeal to Jacksonville City Council members asking them to keep the promise made to residents that the airport would not be expanded. Two men now running to fill the late Jim King’s seat were also involved in this crucial fight. One of them, John Thrasher, was actually a lobbyist working on behalf of JAA, fighting against the interests of Arlington/Kernan residents. The other candidate, City Councilman Art Graham, became the key swing vote that turned the tide in the fight and secured an unlikely victory for us. Senate District 8 covers a large area and there are many important issues to consider in this race. Residents in the Arlington/Kernan areas should weigh this information carefully in with other considerations. In the race to fill Jim King’s Senate seat, many influential people and high-powered groups are spending feverishly telling us how to vote. One very important detail, at least for residents of the Greater Arlington and Kernan areas, has not been discussed in the political ads.

In 2007, residents in these areas were fighting valiantly against an amazing team of lobbyists assembled by JAA to win approval for expansion of Craig Municipal Airport. The team JAA put together included some of the most powerful local, state and national lobbyists.

Sen. Jim King made an extraordinary gesture to stand with the residents against Mayor John Peyton, JAA and an incredible array of powerbrokers. He took time out of his legislative agenda to make a personal appeal to Jacksonville City Council members asking them to keep the promise made to residents that the airport would not be expanded.

Two men now running to fill the late Jim King’s seat were also involved in this crucial fight. One of them, John Thrasher, was actually a lobbyist working on behalf of JAA, fighting against the interests of Arlington/Kernan residents. The other candidate, City Councilman Art Graham, became the key swing vote that turned the tide in the fight and secured an unlikely victory for us.

Senate District 8 covers a large area and there are many important issues to consider in this race. Residents in the Arlington/Kernan areas should weigh this information carefully in with other considerations.

]]> By: singlewide http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/09/03/new-group-targets-quiggle-with-negative-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-2582 singlewide Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:13:35 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=5563#comment-2582 Sounds to me like John Thrasher is no friend of seniors either. He's propped up by the insurance industry that has a real history of limiting necessary care to us. If Mr. Thrasher is straight up why doesn't he address the issues himself. I have watched these ads again and again and everyone but him speaks. I want to hear what he has to say. Maybe its nothing and right now I have to assume that. Sounds to me like John Thrasher is no friend of seniors either. He’s propped up by the insurance industry that has a real history of limiting necessary care to us. If Mr. Thrasher is straight up why doesn’t he address the issues himself. I have watched these ads again and again and everyone but him speaks. I want to hear what he has to say. Maybe its nothing and right now I have to assume that.

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