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According to a MetroJacksonville.com phone survey that was conducted from February 7th-13th, only 27% of Jacksonville registered voters who voted in the last mayoral election would identify themselves as 'satisfied' with Mayor John Peyton's job performance. Breaking it down further, 36% said they are dissatisfied, while 38% said they are neutral on the mayor's performance.
Mayor recall election?
In addition to being asked about their satisfaction with the mayor's job performance, survey participants were also asked if they would vote yes, no, or undecided in a mayoral recall election if it were held today. The majority of respondents said they would vote "no" to recalling the mayor, while 58% said they were "undecided" or would vote "yes' (20% said "yes" and 38% were "undecided").
Interesting Respondant Comments
As may be expected, those who said they were "satisfied" with the mayor's performance didn't have as many comments and were not nearly as vocal as those who said they were "dissatisfied".
Comments from those who were satisfied were composed of these three:
"I completely support the mayor"
"He is a nice person"
"I think a recall vote would be ridiculous"
Comments from those dissatisfied or neutral on Peyton included:
"I wish we had had more candidates in the last election."
"A recall vote to me depends upon the courthouse issue."
"He is wishy-washy and vacillates."
"I'm upset because he gave away $36 million on the courthouse."
"I'm immensely dissatisfied."
"I'm extremely dissatisfied."
"We could've done better."
"I'm disappointed with him flip-flopping on the Craig Airfield thing."
"There is a lot of waste going around."
A note about the survey
While the results of this poll are not as accurate as they could have been with a larger sampling size, the poll was informal in nature and is viewed as a general barometer in determining voter confidence in the mayor.
The Survey
The survey consisted of 120 total registered voters who voted in the last mayoral election. Of the 120 participants, 55 were democrats, 55 were republicans and 10 held no party affiliation. The data from the survey was collected from February 8-13, 2008. There is a 10% margin of error.
Participants were presented with the following:
"We're calling today to do a two-question survey concerning Mayor John Peyton.
First, we'd like to know if you are currently satisfied with, unsatisfied with or neutral on his job performance as mayor?
Second, the local news media has recently mentioned the possibility of a mayoral recall vote later in the year. We'd like to know if a vote to recall the mayor were held today, would you vote "yes", "no" or would you be "undecided"?
Results Question 1 - Are you satisfied with the job performance fo the mayor? | Satisfied | Dissatisfied | Neutral | | 32 | 43 | 45
| | 27% | 36%
| 38%
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Question 2 - If a recall vote were held today, would you vote to recall the mayor? | Yes | No
| Undecided
| | 24 | 50
| 46
| | 20% | 42%
| 38%
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February 15, 2008, 8:54 am
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Is there ANYONE out there that is surprised by this? And one other thing...isn't this lower than even Bush's approval ratings? Sad.
February 15, 2008, 9:11 am
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Interesting. Good work, guys!
I bet the internal crosstabs are interesting as well. X% of Democrats favor recall while X% of Republicans are undecided, etc...
February 15, 2008, 9:30 am
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Here is the future of bond funding for the courthouse project. Bonds will be required to make up the shortfall because of the inflated prices for construction costs:
Bonds sold by U.S. municipal borrowers with rates set through periodic auctions failed to attract enough buyers as banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. that run the bidding won't commit their own capital to the debt.
Rates on $100 million of bonds sold by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with bidding run by Goldman, soared to 20 percent yesterday from 4.3 percent a week ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Presbyterian Healthcare in Albuquerque and New York state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority also experienced failures, officials said.
What began three weeks ago with too few bidders for auction-rate debt backed by relatively small entities, such as Georgetown University and Nevada Power, has widened in recent days to include large issues of state governments, such as New York state's Dormitory Authority. The auction failures provide new indication of Wall Street's unwillingness to commit capital amid $133 billion in credit losses and asset writedowns.
``It's the beginning of the end for the auction-rate market,'' said Matt Fabian, a senior analyst with Concord, Massachusetts-based Municipal Market Advisors. ``Banks have stopped supporting the market.
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/money_matters/2008/02/us-truck-on-fir.html
Had the project been competently planned and managed by an administration that had some vague idea about how to run a city, this courthouse would have already have been built, within budget and on time.
I would not be surprised to find that the money that was set aside and "banked" for this project has been invested in underperforming securities with a low or negative rate of return, and this effect is now compounded by the decline in the value of the dollar coupled with a precipitous rise in the cost of all basic construction materials such as concrete and metal, thereby making the project that much more costly to complete.
So, by delaying the project for several years through sheer incompetence, the present city administration has left the taxpayers of Duval county holding the bag once again.
This is the sad legacy of voter apathy, which in turn breeds incompetent and/or corrupt administrations.
February 15, 2008, 9:49 am
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The article states that a MAJORITY do not support a recall. The accurate statement would be a PLURALITY of voters do not support a recall. If 58% support a recall or are undecided, then 42% do not support a recall. None of the three options is > 50%, which is required for a MAJORITY.
Regardless, these numbers provide encouragement to a Recall effort. Recall is basically unheard of, and without real precedence in FL to my knowledge, and yet a majority either favor one, or are undecided. An excellent starting point.
February 15, 2008, 9:57 am
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I think recall is a bad idea in this situation. That will take energy and resources that we need to marshal in 2011 when we can make a real difference. There's also the issue of the requirement for legal cause. There are seven: malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties and conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude.
I read the results to say that a plurality favors recall, since that's 42%-yes, versus 20%-no and 38%-undecided.
February 15, 2008, 10:01 am
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and we have a winner.... incompetence
ps...i'm not kidding...that would be the one to use.
btw Jimmy...u had ur numbers reversed...it's 42% say "no" to a recall RIGHT NOW, 20% say yes and 38% are currently undecided.
February 15, 2008, 10:03 am
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one other interesting note...the survey participants were split 50/50 among the two major parties. it would be my guess that the democrats would have voted more heavily NOT IN FAVOR of Peyton...and the fact is that there are signicantly MORE democrats than republicans here in Duval, so the true "approval" numbers could actually be worse for Mr. Peyton in reality.
February 15, 2008, 10:05 am
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I always said if I was good with numbers I would have gone to medical school instead of law school. Thanks for the correction. I think it reinforces my point that this community isn't ready for what it would take in order to mount a successful recall effort.
February 15, 2008, 10:11 am
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i would agree with you... not ready RIGHT NOW. but, that is with absolutely NO PR campaigning for a recall election. and i find it AMAZING that already: 20% say YES, they would recall RIGHT NOW and that 38% are UNDECIDED. think about the UNDECIDED votes...if just 1/2 of those said yes (RIGHT NOW, again with no PR campaign), then that would mean there are 39% potential existing yes votes out there RIGHT NOW.
on the issue of whether it is good for the city, IMO, we have now seen almost 5 years of stagnant or reverse growth...run the numbers and he is only 60% through an 8 year reign of incompetence. to me, i ask myself....could you actually do WORSE? i really don't think so. and if so, then it would only be for 3 remaining years.
February 15, 2008, 10:22 am
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Waa Waa Waaa, I want a recall!
Instead of whining about a recall, which has almost no chance of happening, why not apply pressure to the Mayor to run the city competently? Would this be impossible? I am sure that he is capable of learning, as it is rumored that he went to a fine college and subsequently graduated from that fine institution, which would be indicative of that capability.
Right now he has no incentive to represent the public, because they did not elect him, at least from a statistical standpoint, when you look at the number of registered voters Vs. the number of votes he collected in his most recent campaign.
February 15, 2008, 10:24 am
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I'm in the choir, you don't have to preach to me! I'm with you on the bad and worse things that have happened in the past 5+ years.
And maybe there's an untapped group of people out there who, once educated on the issues, would support a recall. We'll have to dust off our mayoral succession chart in the event of a successful recall. Councilman Davis has said that he's unwilling to become Acting Mayor, as it would soil his chances of being elected in his own right in 2011. It's that content that I'm worried about at this moment.
As for an argument that the mayor has no incentive to represent the public... wow. We do pay him a salary and give him some nice perks. We should get something in return.
February 15, 2008, 10:28 am
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Midway...good suggestions.
Specifically, what kind of "pressure" do you think would be most effective in "teaching" the Mayor and forcing him to change his behavior and start "representing the public"? Basically, how do you propose we lure him into doing his job?
February 15, 2008, 10:35 am
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As for his salary, I am sure that it is just pocket change for him. The real purpose of him being mayor is to implement policies that financially benefit his network of associates. It is kind of like the guy who is carting off dirt from a construction site but is really stealing wheelbarrows.
And as for the election, I guess Peyton felt that even if he were to be opposed by "Bongo the Chimp" he would lose, so through the judicious application of pressure, engineered an "election" where he ran unapposed. (I think that the last one of those I heard of was in Iraq). Ahh, democracy at work.
February 15, 2008, 10:38 am
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Specifically, what kind of "pressure" do you think would be most effective in "teaching" the Mayor and forcing him to change his behavior and start "representing the public"? Basically, how do you propose we lure him into doing his job?
By becoming involved. By calling City Hall every day. By sending emails. By voting. By writing into the newspaper. By not being a passive bystander in this democracy.
Politicians are sort of like cockroaches, in that they tend to be antiphototropic.
February 15, 2008, 10:45 am
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Midway, my reply to you would be this... do you not read the mayor's email (you know that you can, right)? Many, many people write him about their anger of his handling of many, many issues. The same goes for City Council members. Also, by reading the Times-Union or Folio (or this site) any day of the week, you can see where many are writing in disgust of the ongoing incompetence. And this is NOTHING NEW. This has been going on for years now. Both the incompetence and the citizen outrage. The point is, the things you are suggesting have been going on for years with no effect or change of leadership behavior or attitude.
Hence, two results: 1) a 27% "approval" rating and 2) things have reached the point (unprecedented up to this point in our city history) where the idea of a recall effort is seriously being tossed around and is seen by many as the only avenue left.
February 15, 2008, 10:57 am
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So, if this "voter revolt" has been in process for many years, where were these people during the last election?
Did Peyton provide such a strong performance during his first four year term that an unapposed election was appropriate?
Then there was a 180 degree turn around of competence during his second term in diametrical opposition to the prior experience during his first term?
No, I think that the lion's share of residents in Jacksonville are only concerned with how much traffic there is on JTB, and when will it be widened to 16 lanes, and what can be done to bring the price of gasoline back to 99 cents per gallon.
February 15, 2008, 11:02 am
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i'll give u the last word, but will only say it is common knowledge in jax political & business circles that there were "forces" at play in the last election that prevented any other viable candidate from running. you are correct though that many here are just apathetic and could care less how their money is spent.
February 15, 2008, 11:06 am
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Specifically, what kind of "pressure" do you think would be most effective in "teaching" the Mayor and forcing him to change his behavior and start "representing the public"? Basically, how do you propose we lure him into doing his job?
By becoming involved. By calling City Hall every day. By sending emails. By voting. By writing into the newspaper. By not being a passive bystander in this democracy.
Politicians are sort of like cockroaches, in that they tend to be antiphototropic.
Frankly, the mere fact that a suggestion or idea is coming from someone on this forum, is sufficient reason in HIS mind, to ignore it. There is NOTHING in your post that many members of this forum have not ALREADY done, in SPADES. There have been coutless emails, phone calls and even meetings. He is not moved. He apparently has the same 'Me vs. Them' attitude that our President has.
February 15, 2008, 11:07 am
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Your survey, while an interesting effort, is flawed on a few points.
Sample size is too small. Your margin of error is probably +/-10%. You need about 400 responders to get to +/-4%, which is standard. 120 is too small.
The right way to ask an approval rating is either a straight "do you approve or disapprove of the way XX is handling his/her job as XXX?" Or break it down and say "Strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove."
So you 27% "approval" rating, since a choice was given to be neutral, is misleading. It's not apples-to-apples vs. the way these questions are customarily posed.
Good effort and some interesting insights though. The fact that those with an opinion are 2:1 against a recall effort should hopefully show how big a waste of time and money such an effort would be.
February 15, 2008, 11:14 am
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Do you remember who his opponent was? I think Peyton has dropped the ball big time, but I think the person that ran against him couldn't have done any better. The problem was the lack of options. I didn't even vote for Mayor last election because a vote cast either way would have been a vote for a lousy candidate. I'd possibly support a recall, but I'd be curious who would take his place.
February 15, 2008, 11:16 am
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Sample size is too small. Your margin of error is probably +/-10%. You need about 400 responders to get to +/-4%, which is standard. 120 is too small.
The right way to ask an approval rating is either a straight "do you approve or disapprove of the way XX is handling his/her job as XXX?" Or break it down and say "Strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove."
So you 27% "approval" rating, since a choice was given to be neutral, is misleading. It's not apples-to-apples vs. the way these questions are customarily posed.
Margin of error is what statisticians call a confidence interval.
That means that if you asked the questions in this survey 100 times, 95 of those times, the % of people who answered as they did in this survey would be within 10 percentage points of the final results in this poll.
Bottom line...while definitely not scientific in it's results (no poll/survey ever is), I think the stated purpose (a general barometer of voter confidence) was well-served.
February 15, 2008, 11:46 am
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Sample size is too small. Your margin of error is probably +/-10%. You need about 400 responders to get to +/-4%, which is standard. 120 is too small.
The right way to ask an approval rating is either a straight "do you approve or disapprove of the way XX is handling his/her job as XXX?" Or break it down and say "Strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove."
So you 27% "approval" rating, since a choice was given to be neutral, is misleading. It's not apples-to-apples vs. the way these questions are customarily posed.
Good effort and some interesting insights though. The fact that those with an opinion are 2:1 against a recall effort should hopefully show how big a waste of time and money such an effort would be.
It is not true to say it is 2:1 against? It's not 2:1 anything if 38 % are undecided. You are assuming all the undecideds are just not going to vote, which is totally illogical.
Given the poll results that have been published in the last year, it is quite obvious, that a 'poll' can change 10's of points OVERNIGHT. Remember when McCain was in the celler? Remember when HRC was a lock? The electorate has not even CONSIDERED this issue, much less made up their collective mind.
To those that just want to 'wait out' Peyton, consider two things:
As Jax continues to fall backwards, comparable cities are MOVING FORWARD. The competitive disadvantage may become too great by waiting until 2011.
Second: Do yu really want to see the city commit to a $1billion BRT plan? By 2011, the 'cement' on that decision will be pretty hard. $100-200mm wasted for a courthouse is bad enough, but it does not even compare with $1 billion.
February 15, 2008, 12:07 pm
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Second: Do yu really want to see the city commit to a $1billion BRT plan? By 2011, the 'cement' on that decision will be pretty hard. $100-200mm wasted for a courthouse is bad enough, but it does not even compare with $1 billion.
If nothing changes by 2011, we will be too far back and possibly financially bankrupt as a city. Vic you're right, the courthouse situation is a drop in the bucket compared to what BRT will and won't do for this city.
February 15, 2008, 4:14 pm
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When I first came here in June of 06, I thought he was a good mayor, wtf was I smokin then?! Get a democrat or Rudy G. up in here to turn this city around. If we can ditch this "conservative" bs mayor, this city could actually move up to the world table, until then, we will be treated like the step child of Miami and Orlando, hell even our brother Tampa hates us! Its definetly getting out of hand now. I cand efinetly see this city, of 815,00 people, filing for bankruptcy in a few years. That is incredibly scary, and wtf does a city do when it goes bankrupt?!
February 15, 2008, 4:48 pm
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Please elaborate. What "forces" are you referring to? Were they supernatural forces?
February 15, 2008, 8:47 pm
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Please elaborate. What "forces" are you referring to? Were they supernatural forces?
now you are catching on young padawon.
February 16, 2008, 2:00 am
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[Do you remember who his opponent was? I think Peyton has dropped the ball big time, but I think the person that ran against him couldn't have done any better. The problem was the lack of options. I didn't even vote for Mayor last election because a vote cast either way would have been a vote for a lousy candidate. I'd possibly support a recall, but I'd be curious who would take his place.
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If I recall, I think his opponent was Jackie Brown(Lord rest her soul). About Mayor Peyton though, I hadn't had a chance to vote and if I did, I could've been voting for Jackie instead of Peyton. But we saw that it was never meant to be. I personally, don't think that Mayor Peyton should get recalled, but then again, I think the Mayor could've done a better job. All in all, I still respect the man regardless. But if by chance he gets recalled, I wouldn't be sad or happy about it
February 16, 2008, 10:03 am
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Let's recall this man.
I think metrotown and metrotown's allies have enough influence to raise awareness in this city. I think the environment is perfect for a campaign to recall the mayor to start. All we have to do is to bring this issue to the public and inform them of the mistakes and outright incompetence of peyton and his cronies...
February 16, 2008, 6:31 pm
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February 16, 2008, 8:52 pm
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Slides to 27% ?? Hey, I wonder what y'all were smoking when you read that number. Are you SURE it said 27%, or was it that they found 27 people in the City that still like him? Oh I know, 27 people is a bit of a stretch, but he could be my friend, if he'd just allow us to present him with a streetcar alternative plan like he promised us... So maybe it's down to 26 now.
Ocklawaha
February 22, 2008, 1:18 pm
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Thought this was a timely item to post:
Detroit, 21 February 2008: Detroit's embattled mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has become the subject of a recall campaign following a row over an extra-marital affair. Detroit resident Douglas Johnson, a candidate for the 2009 city council elections, submitted the required papers to the Wayne County Clerk's office, citing six petitionable actions by the mayor, including abuse of public funds. A number of outstanding investigations and potential legal suits against the mayor, mostly connected to the affair and alleged cover ups, carry felony convictions ranging from removal of office to up to 15 years in jail.
Explaining his efforts, "He has damaged the city dramatically," Johnson said. "That is the only way the city will start to recover." The wording of the petition must first be approved by the clerk's office before Johnson, a paralegal, can collect the 57,000 signatures required to force an election within 180 days. In addition to the challenge mounted outside of the city hall, Kilpatrick also faces an ethics board probe after the city's conduct panel green-lighted an anonymous complaint against the mayor to proceed in March. While the panel has little powers in law beyond administering censure of the mayor, it can recommend his removal from office to the city council.
The city council itself is currently locked in a constitutional battle over the city charter and where authority over its law officers resides, owing to its demands for the release of potentially perjurious text messages between the mayor and his lover, former chief of staff Christine Beatty. The city council and the law department are at odds over a legal appeal by the city to the state supreme court. "Life keeps going on," the mayor said at a recent awards ceremony for youngsters, vowing "This will be over soon."
The Mayor's opponent's don't have a prayer though, literally, as GOD is on the mayor's side.
Detroit, 10 February 2008: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who last month came under strong pressure to resign over sexual relations with his chief of staff Christine Beatty, claimed in an radio interview that he was on assignment from God in his position as mayor. “Detroit is moving forward and I believe it is because of the team that has been assembled here and it is also because God is continuing to smile on us.”
The mayor continued to tell the radio interviewer that the person or the entity or God who put him there wanted him to quit. “I've never been a quitter and I'm not going to start now. So I'm not resigning,” Kilpatrick emphasised. However currently, a prosecutor is investigating whether the mayor and chief of staff lied under oath during a lawsuit last summer in which both denied having had a physical relationship. A conviction of lying under oath can bring up to 15 years’ imprisonment.
Asked whether he would contest the next mayoral elections, Mayor Kilpatrick said that in 2009 people would have an opportunity to make a decision. “But I will make a case at that point to why I am the best person for the job,” he said. He continued to tell his audience that at this particular point he had an intention of being mayor. “You know until God tells me to do something else.”/quote]
February 22, 2008, 1:26 pm
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WOW! I just had a converstation about the Detroit Mayor and ours last night with family from Detroit. Kilpatrick's in danger of being recalled, but he at least bought their downtown back to life.
February 22, 2008, 2:42 pm
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Perhaps therein lays the problem? It is a scientific impossibility to recall someone who is already certified as brain dead... Go figure.
Ocklawaha
February 22, 2008, 6:33 pm
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yeah...i saw that blurb about the Detroit mayor not too long ago...there was also a (brief) effort to recall the mayor of Kansas City...and several others when i googled "recall mayor" the other day...
well, at least we don't have the only incompetent mayor in the U.S.
March 9, 2008, 2:00 pm
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interesting...rumor has it that about 2 weeks ago - not long after the poll came out - many COJ employees were forwarding this around story around and supervisors were told to crack down on it and that the study was not "scientific" and that Peyton's team is now in the process of coming up with their own numbers.
March 9, 2008, 4:48 pm
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It will be interesting to see what kind of numbers they come up with. I wonder if they will release the results if they turn out to be even worse?
Of course they can always just do some push polling and get those approvals up to the mid 90's.
March 9, 2008, 5:41 pm
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Suggested form for question:
What word would you use to describe all of the positive improvements that Mayor Peyton has made during his terms in office, and do you approve of him and those improvements, and if you had the opportunity, would you vote for him again so he could improve Jacksonville even more?
April 2, 2008, 8:28 pm
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Please elaborate. What "forces" are you referring to? Were they supernatural forces?
hahaha.
July 23, 2008, 1:53 pm
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By Mary Kelli Palka,
The Times-Union
Half of Jacksonville's likely voters feel that things have gotten off on the wrong track in the city and less than half approve of how Mayor John Peyton and the City Council are handling their jobs, according to a poll made public Tuesday.
A group of business leaders commissioned the poll in June as Peyton's anti-crime initiative, Jacksonville Journey, was getting ready to wrap up. Peyton and his staff were advised of the poll results in mid-June but never took a copy of them, which meant they weren't released to the public.
But Peyton referenced the poll results when talking last week to members of the Duval County School Board, some of whom had concerns that politics played a role in Peyton choosing not to fund some education initiatives that were recommended as part of the Journey.
The Times-Union received a copy of results Tuesday night from public relations executive Michael Munz, who served on the Journey funding committee. He said he would send copies of the poll to city leaders. He wouldn't name the other business leaders who asked for the poll.
The telephone poll was taken June 3-5 of 600 registered likely voters. The error margin was 4.1 percentage points. It was conducted by The Tarrance Group and directed by well-known pollster Dave Sackett.
Munz said business leaders wanted the poll to better understand what the public was thinking about the crime issue.
About 94 percent of respondents were concerned about the crime in Jacksonville. Of those, 62 percent thought it was an urgent crisis or serious problem.
While 65 percent of the respondents said they approve of the way Sheriff John Rutherford is doing his job, only 48 percent approved of Peyton's job performance and 35 percent approved of the council's performance.
Only 33 percent believed that things in Jacksonville were going in the right direction, while 50 percent thought things were going in the wrong direction.
The results are lower for all of the politicians than in a December 2006 poll, when 71 percent of likely voters said they approved of Peyton's and Rutherford's job performance, and 54 percent approved of the job the council was doing.
"My takeaway from the poll was this city is really concerned about crime," Peyton said.
But he said he doesn't govern by polls and he wouldn't speculate about why people were less happy with his job performance now than a couple years ago.
Almost half of respondents said they would be willing to pay higher taxes if they knew the money would go for police officers and intervention programs. The Journey's funding committee recommended a tax increase, but Peyton decided this month not to raise taxes and instead cut some city services to fund more police officers and anti-crime programs.
Times-Union writer Topher Sanders contributed to this report.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072308/met_308137918.shtml
July 23, 2008, 2:26 pm
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Well, if crime alone caused the low crime numbers, then why is the Sheriff rated higher than Peyton? He is delusional. People are dissatisfied with him because he is incompetent and has produced NO major accomplishments during his tenure as Mayor.
Mayor Peyton: Please do us all a favor and resign and move to St. Johns County.
July 23, 2008, 2:47 pm
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Folio talked about Peyton's lame duck status. Maybe they were right.
how we have fallen so far since the days of Delaney
July 23, 2008, 3:27 pm
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Mayor Peyton: Please do us all a favor and resign and move to St. Johns County.
Did he ever leave St. John's County?
July 23, 2008, 5:11 pm
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Mayor Peyton: Please do us all a favor and resign and move to St. Johns County.
Mayor Peyton's approval ratings are still almost double those of George W.
July 23, 2008, 5:13 pm
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And?
July 23, 2008, 5:22 pm
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This sounds just like Bush.
July 23, 2008, 11:59 pm
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TRANSLATION:
He won't speculate about why people were less happy with his job performance, because over the last couple years, he can't think of 27 people who have seen him do anything.
Don't pee on my leg and tell me its raining!
Ocklawaha
July 24, 2008, 7:48 am
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And both look like hero's compared to the 9% approval rating of our Congress...
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance/congressional_performance
July 24, 2008, 11:31 am
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This sounds just like Bush.
Does the Bush Derangement Syndrome extend even into discussions about City politics on which we actually agree?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Derangement_Syndrome
July 24, 2008, 12:21 pm
Re: Mayor Peyton's approval rating slides to 27 percent
This sounds just like Bush.
Does the Bush Derangement Syndrome extend even into discussions about City politics on which we actually agree?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Derangement_Syndrome
HA!! I love that!!
July 24, 2008, 12:47 pm
Re: Mayor Peyton's approval rating slides to 27 percent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Derangement_Syndrome
No. It's just an observation.
July 24, 2008, 12:47 pm
Re: Mayor Peyton's approval rating slides to 27 percent
you have to admit that they have eerily similar circumstances.
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