{"id":169333,"date":"2025-08-23T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169333\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:25:11","slug":"jax-mayors-office-scores-more-free-tickets-than-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169333\/","title":{"rendered":"Jax Mayor&#8217;s Office scores more free tickets than City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disputes continue in Jacksonville City Hall, including about the time-honored practice of free tickets to Jaguars and Jumbo Shrimp games and other significant cultural events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A document compiled by the City Council says the vast majority of complementary entries of late went to the office of Mayor <strong>Donna Deegan<\/strong>, a function of the Mayor\u2019s Office receiving and distributing the tix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While this practice didn\u2019t begin in the Deegan administration, it\u2019s been spotlighted this year, as the Republican-controlled legislative branch has battled with the Democratic chief executive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The premium portfolio offerings, of course, are for NFL games. And the Mayor\u2019s Office and invited guests scored five out of every six of the nearly 600 tix doled out in 2025. That\u2019s up from 2024\u2019s 62%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mayor\u2019s Office also got 97% of the 6,726 tickets for events at VyStar Arena, 87% of the 260 for Daily\u2019s Place, 84% for events at the Performing Arts Center, 90% of the EverBank Field events not including the Jaguars, and 99% of the Jumbo Shrimp ticket distributions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhdfirm.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20-MHD-Florida-Politics-V1_1-728x90-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316235\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Custody of tickets, as we noted in this week\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/752498-jacksonville-bold-for-8-20-25-ticket-tizzy\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacksonville Bold<\/a><\/strong>, has been a controversy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">City Council President <strong>Kevin Carrico\u00a0<\/strong>has filed an amendment to legislation about ticket distribution that would end the freebies altogether for Jaguars games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deegan says she\u2019d like to \u201clook at all tickets for city-owned venues as part of this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t Post Views: 0&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disputes continue in Jacksonville City Hall, including about the time-honored practice of free tickets to Jaguars and Jumbo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,10083,3188,723,7310,13113,8017,96982,14630,6412,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-169333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donna-deegan","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-city-council","14":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","15":"tag-jaguars-tickets","16":"tag-kevin-carrico","17":"tag-tickets","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078544148719883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}