Openly Gay Mayoral Candidate Mike Klefelt Wants to Brg Dem Back to Eastpote Cy Council - Pri Source

Contents:

• MIKE GAY
• REPUBLINS MIKE GAY, LDSEY BROCK ADVANCE TO JACKSONVILLE CY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2 NOFF
• SHERIFF WATERS SAYS NDIDATE MIKE GAY’S MAILER ATTEMPTS TO ‘CEIVE’ VOTERS
• JACKSONVILLE CY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2: LDSEY BROCK, MIKE GAY, JENNIFER CASEY PETE ALL-REPUBLIN RACE
• OPENLY GAY MAYORAL CANDIDATE MIKE KLEFELT WANTS TO BRG DEM BACK TO EASTPOTE CY COUNCIL
• IN MAE, A GAY CANDIDATE WH AN UNEVEN RERD ON LGBT RIGHTS
• MIKE MICHD, MAE GOVERNOR CANDIDATE, COM OUT AS GAY IN OP-ED
• MAE CONGRSMAN AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE COM OUT AS GAY
• MIKE IS GAY
• MAE GUBERNATORIAL NDIDATE: I'M GAY, 'BUT WHY SHOULD MATTER?'
• MICHIGAN REPUBLINS BACKG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS SAY GOP’S ANTI-GAY PH IS TOO FAIAR
• OPENLY GAY MAYORAL CANDIDATE MIKE KLEFELT WANTS TO BRG DEM BACK TO EASTPOTE CY COUNCIL
• OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE PETE BUTTIGIEG CHALLENG MIKE PENCE'S ANTI-LGBTQ HISTORY — AND PENCE'S TEAM RPONDS
• MAE CONGRSMAN AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE COM OUT AS GAY
• MAE NGRSMAN: "Y I AM" GAY

MIKE GAY

Mike Gay. Mike Gay (Republin Party) is a member of the Jacksonville Cy Council Florida, reprentg District 2. Gay assumed office on July 1, 2023.

Gay's current term ends on July 1, (Republin Party) ran for electn to the Jacksonville Cy Council to reprent District 2 Florida. Gay won the general noff electn on May 16, 2023. See also: Cy electns Jacksonville, Florida (2023)General noff electnGeneral noff electn for Jacksonville Cy Council District 2Mike Gay feated Ldsey Brock the general noff electn for Jacksonville Cy Council District 2 on May 16, 2023.

REPUBLINS MIKE GAY, LDSEY BROCK ADVANCE TO JACKSONVILLE CY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2 NOFF

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SHERIFF WATERS SAYS NDIDATE MIKE GAY’S MAILER ATTEMPTS TO ‘CEIVE’ VOTERS

General electnGeneral electn for Jacksonville Cy Council District 2Mike Gay and Ldsey Brock advanced to a noff. Mike Gay did not plete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connectn survey.

Jacksonville Cy Council District 2 ndidat Ldsay Brock, Jennifer Casey and Mike Gay.

JACKSONVILLE CY COUNCIL DISTRICT 2: LDSEY BROCK, MIKE GAY, JENNIFER CASEY PETE ALL-REPUBLIN RACE

Republins Mike Gay and Ldsey Brock will face each other aga a May 16 noff for Jacksonville Cy Council District 2 bee none of the three Republins the race managed to w a majory of the vote. Polil newer Gay, who had the endorsement of outgog Councilman Al Ferraro, touted his 33 years of bs experience. Gay ran as an outsir mted to fightg veloper terts.

Gay raised $261, 000 as of Febary, wh most of that, about $180, 000 that he gave himself. Read More: Jacksonville Cy Council District 2: Ldsey Brock, Mike Gay, Jennifer Casey pete all-Republin race.

Waters sent a sthg msage to Cy Council District 2 ndidate Mike Gay for a mpaign mailer that Waters said implied the sheriff supports Gay. However, Waters supports Ldsey Brock, who is Gay’s opponent.

OPENLY GAY MAYORAL CANDIDATE MIKE KLEFELT WANTS TO BRG DEM BACK TO EASTPOTE CY COUNCIL

“This implitn that I support your mpaign is a blatant attempt to ceive the voters of Jacksonville, ” Waters said a statement to Gay.

The mailer shows a photo of Waters and Gay shakg hands and a quote that reads: “Received unprecented endorsements & support om lol lears & fah-based anizatns. “Let me be perfectly clear: I do not support you, ” Waters said the statement to Gay Thursday. Republins Mike Gay and Ldsey Brock are headg to the May 16 noff electn for Cy Council District 2.

IN MAE, A GAY CANDIDATE WH AN UNEVEN RERD ON LGBT RIGHTS

Florida’s Voice reached out to the Mike Gay mpaign but did not receive an immediate rponse. And Mike Gay says the district needs someone willg to fight agast new hog velopments. Voters Jacksonville’s Cy Council District 2 will vote between Ldsey Brock, Jennifer Casey and Mike Gay the March 21 electn.

Polil newer Mike Gay, who has the endorsement of outgog Councilman Ferraro, touted his 33 years of bs experience. “We’ve got a cy uncil there that really got disnnected om the cizens, and I feel like I n brg that nnectn back wh my skills and abili and knowledge om managg and nng budgets and ln dollar pani, ” said Gay, who wants to reexame the cy’s sal tax llectn procs regardg pal spendg to save money. Gay said he was motivated to go to polics om his tratns over the ernment’s panmic shutdowns, which Gay views as an overreach of power.

MIKE MICHD, MAE GOVERNOR CANDIDATE, COM OUT AS GAY IN OP-ED

Gay has also promised to oppose what he lls the overvelopment the district.

Brock and Gay have raised the most. Gay raised $261, 000, wh most of that, about $180, 000 that he gave himself. Gay said he is also open to publicly fundg the stadium but wants to know “how much sk the game the Jaguars want to put .

“I want to see what the return on vtment is gog to be before I would say y, ” Gay said. We’re allowg this velopment to go on whout havg the velopers pay their fair share, ” Gay said. While Gay said he believ the Conferate statu should rema up and more statu reprentg “all people” should be stalled too, he wants the issue settled.

MAE CONGRSMAN AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE COM OUT AS GAY

This is the people’s choice, ’” Gay said. Name: Mike Gay.

Gay Constctors. ” Until the dt up over the Pri Month rolutn, Klefelt said he was unaware of homophobia Eastpote and hasn’t experienced while mpaigng.

On September 15, Mike Gay, a Republin ndidate for Cy Council District 2, received an apparent overreachg cease and sist letter om Trisha Bowl, assistant general unsel to the Cy of Jacksonville General Counsel Jason Teal, where he was threatened wh legal actn if he did not remove mpaign signage off a firetck on private property wh 24 hours. In addn, the letter ced that Gay, ” who owns 2 retired firetcks and a ary humvee, was not allowed display signage that reprents certa anizatns endorsg or supportg his ndidacy. Gay’s sign shows the “unofficial” signia of the two groups qutn.

MIKE IS GAY

Bowl also says that the cy has nfirmed that Gay has not received the endorsement om eher the JSO or JFRD.

While the signage qutn may not adhere to certa n-pickg requirements like exact dimensns, or how many mpaign signs n be displayed at one lotn, Gay appears to be pliance wh state law.

MAE GUBERNATORIAL NDIDATE: I'M GAY, 'BUT WHY SHOULD MATTER?'

Gay has purchased several of the retired firetcks for para purpos and has placed them on private property to promote his cy uncil mpaign. First Coast News nfirmed that was perfectly legal for Gay to display his firetck on private property, after receivg a qutn om an alleged ncerned cizen.

MICHIGAN REPUBLINS BACKG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS SAY GOP’S ANTI-GAY PH IS TOO FAIAR

In rponse to the letter om Bowl, Gay removed the firetck and his signage om the private property where he was first given permissn to do so, even though is apparent that he had not vlated any laws or ordanc.

Gay, through his private unsel, submted a Freedom of Informatn (FOI) requt to Mr. The Floridian uld not nfirm that Gay’s opponent the race, Ldsey Brock, is beg supported by dividuals lked to Mayor Curry, but on the surface, appears that Brock may be beneftg om Curry’s fluence the cy. There is speculatn that Gay’s firetck and ndidacy is not the reason for the the apparent outrage over the e of the tck and posted signage.

Acrdg to the latt mpaign fance reportg, Brock has raised $142, 884, while Gay has raised $203, 046. The supreme urt’s landmark abortn lg immediately wiped away abortn rights for lns of Amerins, but tucked away Clarence Thomas’s ncurrg opn on the se was another threat: to the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the his opn, wrten to acpany the Roe v Wa cisn, Thomas, part of the ntrollg bal of rightwg jtic, suggted that the urt should “rensir” the right to same-sex relatnships and same-sex marriage, which was legalized natnwi the face of fears that the urt will now lead a charge agast LGBTQ+ rights – and growg far-right vlence agast LGBTQ+ targets – a rerd number of LGBTQ+ ndidat are nng for US Congrs least 101 LGBTQ+ people ran for US Congrs 2022, acrdg to LGBTQ Victory Fund, a natnal anizatn dited to electg openly LGBTQ+ people to all levels of 57 ndidat are still their rac, wh advot hopg greater reprentatn uld brg tangible change Washgton, after a year when gay and trans people have been creasgly persecuted by rightwg policians the McLeod-Skner is one of the LGBTQ+ ndidat hopg to make a difference the US Hoe of Reprentativ. ”Balt, a former lear of the Vermont senate, supports universal healthre and says she would ph for the passage of the Equaly Act, which would place a feral ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty public spac and feral Garcia, who is nng California, would also break new ground: as the first openly gay immigrant elected to Congrs.

OPENLY GAY MAYORAL CANDIDATE MIKE KLEFELT WANTS TO BRG DEM BACK TO EASTPOTE CY COUNCIL

Garcia, who was born Pe, won the Democratic primary June, and has a strong chance of beg elected wave of LGBTQ+ ndidat as Republins have phed, and passed, bills targetg gay and transgenr who support equal rights for LGBTQ+ people will have their work cut out if Republins do aim their fire at same-sex marriage.

This week Texas Republins unveiled their 2022 party platform, which f homosexualy as an “abnormal liftyle choice” and says the party would “oppose all efforts to validate transgenr inty”’s a Republin mpaign that has amounted to an alarmg rise anti-trans and anti-gay speech over the past year, wh three hate-filled cints occurrg jt over the past March Ron DeSantis, the Florida ernor who is nsired a ontnner for the Republin party’s printial nomatn 2024, signed a ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill that prevents teachers om discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty public schools. This month DeSantis moved to ban transn re for transgenr youth, and this week suggted he may orr Florida’s child protective servic to vtigate parents who take their children to drag policians and rightwg media figur have spread li and misrmatn about gay and trans people attemptg to groom this climate, the supreme urt’s suggtn that the Obergefell se, which enshred the right to same-sex marriage, be revised, has advot for equal rights on edge.

”Heather Mizr, who fac a Democratic primary July, would bee the first out LGBTQ+ member of Congrs om Maryland if she is elected to the ndidat, if succsful, would jo ne openly LGBTQ+ members of the Hoe and two senators, all of whom are Democrats, and uld bolster gay and trans rights at a time when they are unr severe threat. Michd, who is openly gay, is nng for ernor wh the backg of natnal LGBT groups.

OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE PETE BUTTIGIEG CHALLENG MIKE PENCE'S ANTI-LGBTQ HISTORY — AND PENCE'S TEAM RPONDS

Mae was among the first stat to legalize same-sex marriage at the ballot box — and now, LGBT groups are hopg voters there will break new ground by electg the natn's first openly gay ernor November. But Democratic ndidate Mike Michd only recently me out, and he hasn't always been a gay-rights supporter.

"Y, I am gay, but you know, so what?

Sce gog to Congrs, Michd has led up wh the left on social issu like abortn and gay rights.

MAE CONGRSMAN AND GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE COM OUT AS GAY

But his pennt opponent, Elt Cutler, says that was not the se when Michd served for years the Mae Legislature and voted agast legislatn to extend civil rights protectns to gays and lbians 19 tim.

MAE NGRSMAN: "Y I AM" GAY

It was Michd, however, who was recently ved to serve as a grand marshal of the gay pri para Portland. And although Cutler also ma an appearance at that event, he remas eply hurt that Mae's largt gay-rights anizatn endorsed Michd stead of him. "And to lose the endorsement to someone who hadn't, jt bee he is a) a Democrat and b) gay.

Even as a gay man, Michd says, his own posn on LGBT issu has evolved over time, the same way has for many voters.

"It's a ls ted populatn and all of those characteristics tend to rrelate wh beg ls supportive of same-sex marriage and other equaly issu for homosexuals. Mike Michd (D-Mae) me out as gay a lumn released to three of Mae's major news outlets on Monday morng. Michd, who officially announced his gubernatorial bid Augt, uld bee the first openly gay ernor if succsful 2014.