ISSUES

These are unparalleled times in which we live! We must face the hard cold fact, there exists an enemy to our freedom and great Republic, and the enemy is within! We can sit in the face of the over sexualization of our children, the invasion occurring at our southern border, a green deal that will deal a death knell to our economy and the America we know, the reality that the psychiatric and pediatric medical community have been prescribing for the last 3 decades, antidepressants to our children as if they were Vitamin B12 and no want to butcher little boys and girls with gender reassignment surgery as if they were gods. And we wonder why a view across the American landscape reflects a disturbed, for certain angry and unsettled, youth and young adult population. This year 1 in 5 deaths in the country in the age bracket of 20-49, are from alcohol related disease and trauma. And while this stares us in our face, our President is congratulating the corrupt election of a socialist president in Brazil who wants “China Dollars”, and America just goes about its business…as if none of it “affects me”! The truth is such abdication is the epitome and embodiment of “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it and [t]he hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” As Mayor, Frank will be emboldened in his commitment to see every challenge and wrong as an opportunity to inspire and bring about change by one who “dream[s] of things that never were, and asks why not.”

FOR…
EVERY ISSUE THERE IS A VISION
             EVERY NEW OPPORTUNITY, A STRATEGY
                          EVERY HISTORICAL CHALLENGE, A NEW IDEA

These are unparalleled times in which we live! We must face the hard cold fact, there exists an enemy to our freedom and great Republic, and the enemy is within! We can sit in the face of the over sexualization of our children, the invasion occurring at our southern border, a green deal that will deal a death knell to our economy and the America we know, the reality that the psychiatric and pediatric medical community have been prescribing for the last 3 decades, antidepressants to our children as if they were Vitamin B12 and no want to butcher little boys and girls with gender reassignment surgery as if they were gods. And we wonder why a view across the American landscape reflects a disturbed, for certain angry and unsettled, youth and young adult population. This year 1 in 5 deaths in the country in the age bracket of 20-49, are from alcohol related disease and trauma. And while this stares us in our face, our President is congratulating the corrupt election of a socialist president in Brazil who wants “China Dollars”, and America just goes about its business…as if none of it “affects me”! The truth is such abdication is the epitome and embodiment of “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it and [t]he hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” As Mayor, Frank will be emboldened in his commitment to see every challenge and wrong as an opportunity to inspire and bring about change by one who “dream[s] of things that never were, and asks why not.”

FOR…
EVERY ISSUE THERE IS A VISION
EVERY NEW OPPORTUNITY, A STRATEGY
EVERY HISTORICAL CHALLENGE, A NEW IDEA

DUVAL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

A quality public education should be the hallmark of any City and no citizen should be faced with “a charter school across town” or a public school that has been “crossed off” the list of inspirational learning. We need to lift the heads of our children under Frank’s Lifting Heads educational program for all of our 196 public schools.

Lifting the heads of pre-k and elementary students to know all were created with a purpose;
Lifting the heads of middle schoolers to know everyone is created for a purpose;
Lifting the heads of our high schoolers by equipping our nation’s future in a purpose.

If we lift the heads of our children to find a purpose in life, they’ll never look to their gender or sexual identity for validation and confirmation of their life.

Today we face a literal assault on and sacrifice of our children in an age of where we are serving a of what I call “The Table of Poison” to our young. That platform is propped up and the dishes served created in the kitchens of death run by the DOE, the NEA, AFT and the NSBA. As I ponder the constant herald of “children are our future”, I am broken about the future our kids are going to face and inherit. As a candidate I am deeply saddened about the poison of gender fluidity and the contagion of this man-made disease which is making “patients for life” out of our children. I am more alarmed by the fact, for the first time in human history our children are confused about their gender! With a culture invading our kids, every moment of their conscious awareness, with a message and image of woman and mankind which is void of anything save the sexuality of humanity, why we would not expect our youth to be confused about their sex! And how much more can we damn the future than to indoctrinate our children with a “benchmark goal” of you are your sexuality and gender, you are what you want to be, you need not think of the purpose of your life or soul or its accountability; you are free to detach from human history! If we want our children to thrive in life, we better inspire the minds, hearts and souls of our Nation’s future harvest of and in life. No greater inspiration is known to or in humanity, than the soul of a child being inspired in the life they see and finding a purpose certain for which…they were created to be!

In association with the PGA Tour, the PGA and its North Florida Chapter, the USGA and First Tee, and as part of the Lifting Heads DCPS programs, Frank wants to create the first ever in the nation, Golf Not Guns K-12 sports program where every K through 5th grader at all DCPS elementary campuses once a week are availed to learn and be taught one of the greatest gifts to mankind, the game of golf. Developing with TopGolf and industry leaders, 2 to 5, state of the art mobile “TEE FOR LIFE” tractor-trailer combinations which “run the circuit” of elementary schools and inside is the beginning of a life adventure for our kids. Under the TFL program, every child has the chance to learn the “love” each of us find in the game we call golf. As we know this historic game of honor, ethics, etiquette and individual meritocracy is under assault and this unsurpassed historical, multi-century canvas of class and respect painted over centuries, is sadly under attack…simply for money. As Mayor, I want every child in Duval County to encounter that indescribable-really addicting-sensation of “hitting it on the dime” and in so doing, feeling a thrill which starts in their loins and resonates into their soul. If a child gleans over that unparalleled experience of the soul, that child will never pick up a gun to take one!

PUBLIC SAFETY

No City is a community of freedom if crime and violence are free to roam. I believe firmly the future of our “safety net” will be found and only so, by Jacksonville leading our state and the nation in creating the 21st Sentry-A MODERN MODEL FOR PUBLIC SECURITY. In association with Jacksonville University’s new law school, the UF Health System, the Fire Academy of the South, the Florida Law Enforcement Academy and Institute of Police Technology and Management, Jacksonville would lead the way in creating the educational curriculum and academic standards for the “College of Sentinel Science, Technology, Operations and Procedures” (S.T.O.P.) and a four-year program for a Bachelor of Science in Public Safety. Every student would take one semester each of Law Enforcement, Mental Health Science, Emergency Medical Rescue and Fire Safety, Science and Technology. With the assistance of modern technology and “Sentry Patrols” manned by two 21st Sentry Officers, every “incident” affronting public safety will be answered by 21st Sentries who have broad training across four disciplines and each a separate specialty training (2 years) in either Police, Fire, EMR (Emergency Medical Rescue) or EMH (Emergency Mental Health). Nothing is more salient to “calming the tempests of society” than distilling the “fire” as soon as possible. With advanced and greatly enhanced training, this 21st Sentry model will provide a better future for our “first responders”, with better pay and better appreciation by the community. It will also reduce the per capita cost we incur to fund our safety net and will produce a City absent of violence in its streets, increased compensation for our first responders, witnessing more favorable and non-violent outcomes, and mostly, the honor of and for our first responders, restored. This is a broad step into the future, but it’s really just taking a broad look at “our cities today” and taking advantage of a broad array of existing 21st century technologies and creating a city safety net which provides categorically for our City, “a whole new bandwidth of coverage and premiums go down”! This initiative as with all a Keasler Administration will undertake, will be driven and guided “categorically” by, “how do we do it better, for less tax dollars and make it sustainable”. The latter element of all Frank will do for our City as Mayor contemplates more than environmental sustainability. Every vision must work well into the future 50 years from now, every advancement must run congruent with those in city services and the running of their department, division or governmental office. Transforming our City into the modern model of community cannot and will not reflect “poor planning, design and implementation”. We will not turn the promises of operational transformation and the resulting migration to new platforms, into trainwrecks and migraines! Mayor Keasler will push for a 2024 amendment to our City Charter which replaces our current Sherrif with an elected Director of Public Safety. Such newly created elected office would be filled by our City’s current Sherrif for the balance of said Sheriff’s term and in 2027 we would elect our first Director of Public Safety. Such “chief safety officer” would recommend to the City Council and the Mayor, such elected Director’s selection to head each of the four divisions (Fire, Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Rescue and Emergency Mental Health) of the “21st Sentry” safety net over our City. The City Council-with the Mayor having a vote to break any tie-would by the vote of its members, approve or not, such recommended individuals to lead said four divisions of the 21st Sentry model. Any position not approved would be subject to the Director recommending a new candidate, as well as the Mayor and the Council each having the right to recommend said new candidate. When approved said individuals will be “21st Sentry, Fire Safety, Commander Bill Wilson,”, or 21st Sentry, EMR (Emergency Medical Rescue )Commander Larry Smith, , or EMH, Commander Kathy Jones, or Law Enforcement, Commander Sandra Brown.

TRANSFORMING AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Today we face the inescapable reality of the need to “transform” government and bring it into the 21st century. Our traffic engineering and road design still deploy the “source code” of driving in 1950, i.e., red, yellow, green, which gives us a “go to stop” pattern of our everyday commutes. Our recycling is the biggest ruse to environmental propriety ever pandered to a people; recycling is not shipping our plastics and glass across the globe to create “mountains of waste” in foreign countries, nor is it picking up “blue bins” for the contents to be just another drop at the landfill. The state of poverty in our nation and the poor in our City is still being addressed by a “free fish today” and while the marginalized need desperately for us to teach all “how to fish in the 21st century”. All of these established government programs and processes show how much we must change the way we govern. What business in America today, is doing “it” the way “it” was done 50 years ago? None! But our governments are doing “it” today as we did it in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s! Under the TAGLINE ordinance (Transforming American Government by Local Initiatives and New Enterprises) we will look at every facet of every department in the COJ, and every dime spent to make sure we are “spending our dimes wisely”. If tomorrow is going to reflect the change we want, we will fetter every chance of change if we hang on the cliché “this is the way it’s always been done”. The people of our City and our nation are done with government as usual, and our days clearly proclaim we are in unusual times.

TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING

Since the end of WWII, governments across the board in the United States have lived in a world driven by “tax and spend”. In fact, there are people employed full time in the COJ, as in the State of Florida and in the Federal Government, whose only job is to see every governmental branch, department or agency spends every dime of the annual budget “so that” every dime can be funded again and increased in next year’s budget. And you think after 50 plus years of being managed and driven by that internal self-preservation, we have not created a deep state committed to keeping it “their state”! Under the CLEAR (Comprehensive Local Examination Audit, Review, Recommendation and Restructuring) Ordinance the Keasler Administration will present to our City Council, we are going to look at every dime, every service, every “entrenched” relationship with the COJ, to see “clearly” how we can clearly do government in our City, better, faster and for less tax dollars. With our City managed and operated under “archaic” systems and policies and-I hate to say it-with a bent for local cronyism, I am certain we are going to see clearly how we have been “clearly” wasting, throwing away or fraudulently disbursing, what Frank believes will be, collectively, scores, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars in a +1.555 Billion Dollar discretionary budget. Just ask yourselves what +7.5 Billion Dollar institution got there by “never changing”! The fact is we in America have been footing the bill for waste, antiquation and fraud in our government institutions and operations at every level for 7 decades. It’s long past the time “we took a look at the bill”! The C.L.E.A.R. Ordinance is part of the Florida S.O.A.R Act (State Omnibus Audit, Review, Recommendation and Restructuring Act), which is part of the C.F.A.R Act (Comprehensive Federal Audit, Review, Recommendation and Restructuring Act). This bottom-up approach in restructuring our cities into modern models of efficient and credible administration of government, is our most assured if not only, path whereby we can change ultimately all inside the Beltway to efficient, credible government administration, by changing all we do inside our City.