The Duval Dems Podcast

Ramon Day is a fifth generation Floridian, born in Madison County. Raised in Jacksonville, he graduated from Duval County Public Schools. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Jacksonville University with a major in history and a minor in English. He received a Master of Business Administration from The University of Florida with a concentration in finance. Ramon has a unique career background with dual expertise in the private sector and government policy. While his private sector experience includes banking, finance, and real estate, his public sector experience includes service as Chief of Staff to the late Congressman Charles E. Bennett. To learn more about Ramon and his campaign for City Council, visit his website! To learn more about the Duval Dems and our candidates running for office, click here!

Rahman is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Kappa Alpha PsiFraternity, Inc., SAG/AFTRA, The Urban League, the National Association of BlackJournalists, the American Association of University Professors, and The UnitedNations Association of the United States.  Rahman also served as a Stakeholder for the Jacksonville Insight Process and was an organizer of the Jacksonville Community Council Forum for the Future. To learn more about Rahman's campaign for City Council District 14, click here! To learn more about the Duval Dems and our candidates running for office, click here!

The Honorable Joyce Morgan represents Jacksonville City Council District 1.  With nearly eight years of service Morgan continues to focus on what she says is Jacksonville’s most precious asset, our people. She does that through her varied Council duties where she has served on every standing committee with distinction performing duties ranging from Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee to Chair of the Rules Committee, Chair of the Transportation, Energy & Utilities Committee, and three years with the Value Adjustment Board including two of those years as the chair. To learn more about Joyce and her campaign, visit her website! To learn more about the Duval Dems and our candidates running for office, click here!

Charles Garrison is a veteran and lifelong First Coast resident. Charles is currently the chair of the Water Committee on Jacksonville’s Environmental Protection Board, which he join after serving as the previous Secretary on Jacksonville’s Housing & Community Development Commission. He also serves on the board of directors for Changing Homelessness, a local non-profit whose vision is to end homelessness. Charles is running for Jacksonville City Council because he knows he can be the leader the City needs to build us forward. To learn more about Charles and his plan to build us forward, click here! To learn more about the Duval Dems and our candidates running for office, click here!

Whether it is serving the community, serving our country and our sailors at sea, serving the students he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, or serving the public and our natural resources with the St. Johns River Water Management District, Jimmy Peluso believes service is the most important thing we can do to build our community. To learn more about Jimmy's campaign for City Council District 7, click here! To learn more about the Duval Dems and our candidates running for office, click here!

Abortion is on The Ballot this November! As the midterm elections grow nearer, we focus on the biggest issue of the year: Reproductive Rights. Representative Anna Eskamani joins us to discuss what is at stake and what we can do to protect the right to bodily autonomy.  To learn more about The Duval Dems, visit www.DuvalDems.org.

This week on The Duval Dems Podcast, DEC Chairman, Daniel Henry, sits down with J.R. Gaillot, a candidate running to be the Commissioner of Agriculture.   To learn more about J.R. Gaillot, click here. To learn more about the Duval Dems and to become a member, visit our website here.

This week on The Duval Dems Podcast, DEC Chairman, Daniel Henry, sits down with the Democratic Nominee for Florida's Chief Financial Officer, Adam Hattersley! Adam Hattersley is a Navy veteran and author focused on improving the lives of those in his community through public service. He believes the only way forward in this country is to put politics aside and send people to Tallahassee who will work for their communities instead of themselves, their political parties or their big donors. To learn more about Adam, click here. To learn more about the Duval Dems and to become a member, visit our website here.

It is May 2022 and the price of housing continues to climb. All over Florida, and all throughout Jacksonville, the price of homes, rent, and property insurance have been steadily ascending for years. Daniel Henry, Chairman of the Duval County Democratic Party, sits down with Mark Rosener to talk about housing has become so unaffordable in our community, and what can be done to fix it.  To learn more about Mark, visit his website. To learn more about the Duval Dems and to become a member, visit our website here.

With Federal Indictments in the news, The Duval Dems talk walkthrough and explain the ins and outs of the Curry Administration's JEA Scandal.  To learn more about the JEA Scandal, click here.  To learn more about the Duval Dems and to become a member, visit our website here.