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Media Roundtable: Lenny Curry Out As GOP Chair, Potentially For Jax Mayoral Run

Republican Party of Florida

Peter Rummell, the powerful fundraiser who backed Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown's successful campaign in 2011, has publicly broken from the mayor.

Rummell told the editorial board for the Florida-Times Union this week that Brown "doesn’t know how to manage… he has no courage… he’s wimped out.”

Rummell has now said that he will support Florida GOP chairman,  Lenny Curry in the 2015 mayoral election. Curry told Florida Republican Party leaders Thursday that he was stepping down as state chair.

Joining us on our regular Friday media roundtable to discuss this and other stories is our panel of local journalists:

Additional topics include a new Quinnipiac poll that shows former governor Charlie Crist leading incumbent Governor Rick Scott in the 2016 gubernatorial race, the high number of shootings in Jacksonville during the month of April, Springfield candy shop Sweet Pete’s making a move downtown, and Florida State University quarterback and Heisman Trophy-winner Jameis Winston’s recent seafood theft scandal.

You can follow Karen Feagins on Twitter @Karenfeagins and Lindsey Kilbride @lindskilbride.

Karen found her home in public broadcasting after working for several years as a commercial television reporter. She joinedWJCTin 2005 as the host of 89.9 FM’s Morning Edition and has held many different roles at the station in both radio and television. She has written and produced documentaries includingBeluthahatchee: The Legacy of Stetson Kennedy and Jacksonville Beach: Against the Tide and directed the oral history project, Voices of the First Coast.
Lindsey Kilbride was WJCT's special projects producer until Aug. 28, 2020. She reported, hosted and produced podcasts like Odd Ball, for which she was honored with a statewide award from the Associated Press, as well as What It's Like. She also produced VOIDCAST, hosted by Void magazine's Matt Shaw, and the ADAPT podcast, hosted by WJCT's Brendan Rivers.