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Her righteous battle will continue to be an uphill struggle, if she'll wage it. There are entrenched unelected elements who presume authority over the directionality of the city's interests and consider the assets of the community their own to commandeer as they see fit. Their go-to methods, in descending order of implementation, are the coercing of city commissioners, mis-informational propaganda and, if it gets too tough for the easy win, they also hold "majority shares" in the sheriff's department (the little army commonly known as the JSO).

JSO may be remembered as the checkpoint enforcers on duty to harass/prevent black voters' access to the polls (or anywhere else) in November 2000. Their effort was effective enough to create an unelected G. Bush, POTUS. They're still there, role model for the worst aspects of LEO's across the nation as they refine their neo-Gestapo technique, meeting the challenge of a society where it must be assumed every citizen is armed and dangerous, per statute.

Many are hopeful in light of a Democratic victory and the usual roadblocks remain. Confederate Park may have changed its name and its statue may no longer loom over the city's horizon, but its spirit has a few decades before it too will fade into oblivion. The fortunes of "developers" still remain the greatest economic driver of the economy. The basket of opportunities is, as usual, light-ish and fragile.

How soon before the games begin, the games to prove which faction will sustain dominance in the playing fields of politics in our fair city straddling the St. Johns.

Joyce Morgan also won for property appraiser. Two good, deserving Democratic women advanced. Proud of my city!

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