{"id":412648,"date":"2026-09-28T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412648\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:48:07","slug":"better-jacksonville-committee-latest-sign-that-wyman-duggan-is-about-to-run-for-jacksonville-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412648\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Better Jacksonville Committee’ latest sign that Wyman Duggan is about to run for Jacksonville Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Speaker Pro Tempore Wyman Duggan\u2019s<\/a> \u201cCitizens for Building Florida\u2019s Future\u201d political committee is no more, at least not under that name.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 11, treasurer and registered agent\u00a0Noreen Fenner requested a name change to the \u201cBetter Jacksonville Committee,\u201d suggesting that the term-limited legislator may be close to announcing a campaign against Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n

Sources familiar with Duggan\u2019s thinking say he could file to run as soon as October, months ahead of the January deadline to qualify.<\/p>\n

Duggan\u2019s committee has nearly $1.35 million on hand, a sharp contrast to the underfunded field of 11 challengers that has emerged thus far, though far short of Deegan\u2019s nest egg.<\/p>\n

Her political committee \u201cDuval for All<\/a>\u201d has more than $2.2 million on hand; she also has nearly $175,000 in her campaign account.<\/p>\n

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Deegan led Duggan by 20 points in a recent\u00a0St. Pete Polls<\/a>\u00a0survey of the city\u2019s likely voters conducted for Florida Politics, drawing 53% support in a hypothetical head-to-head contest.<\/p>\n

If that holds, it will reverse a long-term trend. No Democrat has been re-elected Mayor since Jake Godbold<\/a>\u00a0in 1983.<\/p>\n

For Deegan, the near-term goal in her campaign is to get more than half the vote in March 2027. If she fails to do that, the top two finishers advance to the General Election in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Speaker Pro Tempore Wyman Duggan\u2019s \u201cCitizens for Building Florida\u2019s Future\u201d political committee is no more, at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[163546,5890,116,118,117,128215,13771],"class_list":["post-412648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-better-jacksonville-committee","tag-donna-deegan","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-noreen-fenner","tag-wyman-duggan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}