{"id":73562,"date":"2025-07-18T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73562\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:33:11","slug":"jacksonville-naacp-supports-councilman-peluso-after-committee-removal-calls-action-political-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73562\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville NAACP supports Councilman Peluso after committee removal, calls action \u2018political agenda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP says it stands with City Councilman Jimmy Peluso after he boycotted a committee meeting, resulting in his removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In a statement released on Friday, the NAACP voiced its outrage about what it called the \u201ccensorship of city leaders who exercise their right to vote contrary to [Council President Kevin Carrico\u2019s] political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Peluso, a Democrat, boycotted the meeting of the Transportation, Energy &amp; Utilities Committee by not showing up because of what he called \u201cinappropriate actions and poor council leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/07\/15\/a-democrat-councilman-boycotted-his-first-committee-meeting-the-republican-council-president-just-removed-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/07\/15\/a-democrat-councilman-boycotted-his-first-committee-meeting-the-republican-council-president-just-removed-him\/\"><b>Democratic councilman boycotts first committee meeting. Republican council president removes him<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Carrico, a Republican, said Peluso\u2019s boycott of the meeting showed an \u201cunwillingness to show up and do the work,\u201d so he was removed from the committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Peluso also said Councilman Matt Carlucci was reduced to only serve on one committee, which is not usually the norm on the city council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the NAACP, Carrico\u2019s decision was \u201cfocused on scoring political points rather than prioritizing the best interests of the city of Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The organization issued a call for residents to demand that \u201celected officials uphold their responsibilities to the constituents they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Read the full statement below:<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville NAACP branch issued a statement, opposing &#8216;censorship&#8217; after Democratic city councilman was removed from committee by Republican council president (The Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP says it stands with City Councilman Jimmy Peluso after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,8314,3188,723,7310,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-73562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-duval-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114876147548507433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73562","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=73562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}