UNF alum Anna Brosche: Her campaign for Mayor of Jacksonville
January 23, 2019
As March 19 approaches, City Councilwoman and the newest candidate for Mayor of Jacksonville Anna Brosche is focused on tackling several large issues in her campaign against incumbent Lenny Curry.
The top three issues that the UNF alum is heavily targeting are crime, transparency, and investing in children.
Above all issues, though, one in particular seems to stand out for Brosche.
“We are seeing an increase in crime over the last three-to-four years,” Brosche told Spinnaker. “We are waking up every morning to news of shootings or violence all over our city.”
Brosche called this rise in crime a crisis and explained her belief that it should be the Mayor’s responsibility to “Have all hands on deck,” and not just leave it for law enforcement to handle. The candidate described that placing the weight of this crime crisis on the shoulders of law enforcement officials is unfair, and further addressed her opinion; it should be the intentions of the Mayor to ensure a multifaceted approach in tackling something she believes to be intrinsic to Jacksonville’s issues at this time.
She also spoke of her intentions to work closely with college students as a means of understanding what the 18 to 25 year-old demographic hopes to see out of a city official.
Brosche spoke highly of the college students of Jacksonville and expressed her desire to become involved with not only her alma mater – UNF – but also Jacksonville University and Jacksonville’s community colleges.
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Charlie H • Jan 31, 2019 at 10:53 pm
SOME PEOPLE ARE MISINFORMED AND FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED, I READ THIS IN A CHINESE Fortune cookie, just saying.
Rod Sullivan • Jan 25, 2019 at 7:25 am
“Wait” vs “weight.” Spinnaker committed a Freudian slip attributing to Brosche the statement that the “wait of crime” shouldn’t fall solely on the shoulders of law enforcement.
Brosche lacks “weight” or gravitas on the crime issue. Her sounds bites are weightless and the City has had to “wait” for her to discover the issue of crime—until she decided to run for Mayor.
Two of her appointees to the powerful Finance Committee have been indicted for fraud, a crime issue that she could have addressed. She is under investigation for violations of the Sunshine Act, another crime issue which she could personally address.
Through her time on the City Council she has sewn hate and divisiveness, so the likelihood she will make progress on crime is small.
If you want four years of the anger and gridlock we see in Washington, then elect Brosche and you’ll get your wish, and you won’t have to wait for it.