Davis will face Republican Binod Kumar in the November general election.
Gaffney, part of a family with deep roots in Jacksonville’s political and sports lives, had drawn support from community figures including a series of pastors andCompeting in a party primary, Gaffney was dogged by a political committee’s mailers that contrasted Davis as “a true Democrat” and the councilman as “basically a Republican, not for us.”
It was an attack that had been raised when he first ran for council in 2015 in an overwhelmingly Democratic Council District 7. Gaffney had said then that he first registered as a Democrat in the 1970s but became a Republican from 2004 until 2013. He returned to the Democrats, he said at the time, because their policies reflected more compassion for people who were suffering.
Suffering and distress have been part of Gaffney’s career, having spent three decades operating the nonprofit Community Rehabilitation Center on North Pearl Street delivering services to people with mental health and substance abuse problems. CRC was one of several nonprofits that Brown, a former 12-term member of Congress, acknowledged falsifying donations to as part of a tax charge she
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