Trump's RNC in JAX, or rather not...
Trump once again screws the very people that have tendency to support him. The businesses that were poised to profit the most from the RNC convention, stocked up on supplies in anticipation of the event. Well now those businesses that spent all that money are left holding the bag because the worlds preeminent bag man packed up his tent and left town. So sorry people. I was predicting the moment it was announced, the convention would never happen here. So sorry suckers.
By the way, Trump talking about Democrats running cites with "high crime rates". Lenny Curry, a republican and the mayor of Jacksonville ran a law and order campaign because of the high numbers of daily shootings in town. He was going to hire dozens more police because of the many homicides and shootings in town. He criticized the previous mayor for a lack of leadership in that regard. Well now well into his second term we still have a high rate of homicides and gang related shootings regardless of how many new jobs he gave to the sheriff. Seems he and Mike Williams, our sheriff, haven't kept their campaign promises to reduce crime and the number of shootings. Curry is a republican and the former chairman of the Florida republican party. Jacksonville suffered it's highest ever homicide rate in 2019 after spending over a half billion dollars on our police department.
Curry is also potentially involved in a scheme by the board of directors of Jacksonville's publicly held utility, the JEA, to sell it to a private utility concern and line their own pockets with loads of cash from the sale. The FBI is investigating. The board purposely misled the public by saying the utility was going broke and the only way to save it was sell it to a private company. Needless to say the people of Jacksonville like their publicly held utility and were against the sale when their little scheme became public.
