Election Guide: Council-At-Large Group One (Jacksonville 2011)

This guide is for Council-At-Large Group One (Jacksonville 2011).

The three candidates and their platforms:

1) Steve Burnett (NPA)

• Put numerous boxes of confidential information in a trash dumpster while working at Jackson Hewitt.
• Once said "government, in my opinion, doesn't do anything right."
• 20 year Navy veteran.
• Masters in Business Administration.
• "Has made biweekly payrolls for 15 years as a business owner."

Sources: http://www.news4jax.com/news/25442389/detail.html

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-03-04/story/jacksonville-city-council-large-group-1-race-tailor-made-hollywood

http://www.news4jax.com/duval-county-elections/26873596/detail.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDb7xVndW7w

2) Kimberly Daniels (Democrat)

• Born in Jacksonville.
• While in college she was a "member of the fastest female spring team in the nation."
• Army war veteran (Operation Desert Storm).
• Started her own ministry in 1992 and has "traveled to 20 countries as an international speaker, written 10 books, [and] founded two churches.
• Created two programs (one for ex-cons another for women with substance abuse issues) that have "touched the lives of many on the streets of Jacksonville."
• Masters Degree in Christian Education and a Doctorate Degree in Christian Counseling.
• Has 6 children; "two sons retired from the NFL."
• Regarding JEA: "The JEA is a public monopoly. Like all monopolies, it has no incentive to be efficient or profitable because it has no competition."
• Advocates new approaches to crime including "a border of checkpoints for cars entering a neighborhood which had experienced high rates of violent crime."
• "She and her husband live in a nearly half-million-dollar Northside home listed by the Property Appraiser's Office as her church's parsonage. Spoken Word Ministries, which is primarily controlled by Daniels and her family, also paid to install a swimming pool and screen enclosure on the property in 2008."

Sources: http://www.votekimberlydaniels.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPmR0D9u_hY

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-03-04/story/jacksonville-city-council-large-group-1-race-tailor-made-hollywood

http://www.news4jax.com/duval-county-elections/26873596/detail.html

3) David A. Taylor (Republican)

• "Founder of David Taylor, P.A., a highly successful law firm in Jacksonville, and his primary field of practice is commercial litigation and adoptions."
• Vice President of David A. Taylor Air Conditioning and Heating, "owner and chief investigator of Moonlight Investigations," and "president of Nine Point Holding Company, Inc. a construction company in Jacksonville.
• Member of the NRA.
• Endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Firefighters.
• "Has been the subject of repeated complaints to the Florida Bar, although he is still in good standing."

Sources: http://davidtaylornow.com/index.html

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/403455/steve-patterson/2011-02-15/taxpayers-trash-david-taylor-tout-lots-other-hopefuls