Fil-Am councilor challenging fellow Republican for mayor in Florida

JACKSONVILLE, Florida – Fil-Am City Council Member Anna Lopez Brosche is running for mayor in the local election on March 19.

Brosche, who holds an at-large seat on the city’s legislative body, is challenging fellow Republican Lenny Curry, a first-term mayor.

Jacksonville, Florida City Council President Anna Lopez Brosche is running for mayor in the coming March local election. WIKIPEDIA

If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote plus one on March 19, the top two candidates will meet in a runoff May 14.

Brosche, also a Republican, is ending her first term on council. If elected, she would become the first woman mayor in Jacksonville’s history.

A Jacksonville native, Brosche is the first Asian-American elected to the council and was the first Filipino-American to serve on a city council in Florida.

After serving as chair of the council Finance Committee in 2016-17, Brosche won a close race for council president, revealing many disagreements with Mayor Curry on the issues of crime and transparency, according to Jaxdailyrecord.com.

Brosche resisted the mayor’s overhaul of  children’s service agencies; accused him of orchestrating a behind-closed-doors effort to sell the city public utility.

Curry’s camp is accusing Brosche of sowing “division and conflict in the city council” and failing to achieve her stated goals as council president.