By Max Greenwood
The mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., (click here) on Tuesday backed up Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams’s assessment that the security plans for the Republican National Convention are inadequate, saying that he needed reassurance that law enforcement would have the necessary resources to secure the convention.
“Any event, anything we put on in the city of Jacksonville, I have to have my sheriff telling me it can be done,” Lenny Curry, a Republican who is also involved in planning the August convention, told reporters on a video call Tuesday.
Curry said that he needed Williams to assure him that “he has the resources he needs and that it can be done in a safe and responsible way.”...
July 23, 2020
The 2020 Republican National Convention’s plans (click here) for coming to Jacksonville next month will face a major roadblock after Mayor Lenny Curry filed a bill Wednesday evening: a city council president who said he now opposes the effort.
The bill, which still leaves gaps about how the city plans to handle testing, treatment and the potential spread of coronavirus, grants Curry extraordinary power to spend $33 million in federal security funds how he thinks is necessary....
July 23, 2020
The 2020 Republican National Convention’s plans (click here) for coming to Jacksonville next month will face a major roadblock after Mayor Lenny Curry filed a bill Wednesday evening: a city council president who said he now opposes the effort.
The bill, which still leaves gaps about how the city plans to handle testing, treatment and the potential spread of coronavirus, grants Curry extraordinary power to spend $33 million in federal security funds how he thinks is necessary....
