Jacksonville City Council put to bed Mayor Lenny Curry's proposal for 'resign to run' requirements for local offices.
Mayor Lenny Curry's proposal for a non-binding referendum requiring local elected officials to resign if they want to run for another local office won't be on the March ballot because he fell short of enough City Council support to greenlight asking voters about it.
City Council voted 12-6 against having the straw ballot, which wouldn't have changed anything by itself but the results could have been used in asking the state Legislature for possible changes to the City Charter. Curry had argued the"resign to run" rule for local offices would create a more even playing field in campaigns because current office-holders would have had to resign if they wanted to run for a different office at the local level.
Critics of the proposal said it was a political ploy in the run-up to the March city election and said political newcomers have been able to win almost all local elections in the past eight years under the current law.
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