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Tommy Hazouri Wins Reelection To At-Large City Council Seat

Tommy Hazouri and Greg Rachal
HEATHER SCHATZ / WJCT NEWS
Tommy Hazouri (left) and Greg Rachal

Democrat Tommy Hazouri has won the race for Jacksonville’s At-Large Group 3 Council seat, beating Republican Greg Rachal by 58.05% to 41.95% with all precincts reporting.

Hazouri, a Jacksonville native, served as a state representative in the 1970s, mayor in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and then on the Duval County School Board before becoming a councilman in 2015.  As mayor, he pushed through a sales-tax referendum to remove bridge tolls and spearheaded an effort to create environmental rules to clean up the city’s air.

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During his recent term as a councilman, Hazouri successfully sponsored legislation adding protections for LGBT people to the city's human rights ordinances. He has also worked on bills aimed at fighting human trafficking.

Reflecting on current issues, Hazouri said on First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross last month that he supports and signed an environmental resiliency pledge because “we have to be prepared” for sea-level rise. 

Republican Greg Rachal serves on theTaxation, Revenue and Expenditure Commission for the city of Jacksonville and has served asdistrict commissioner for theBoy Scouts of America.

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Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield@wjct.org, 904-358-6349 or on Twitter at @BortzInJax.

Bill joined WJCT News in September of 2017 from The Florida Times-Union, where he served in a variety of multimedia journalism positions.