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Frank Keasler
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

March 21, 2023

Education

Bachelor's

University of North Florida, 1980

Graduate

University of Florida, 1985

Law

Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, 1984

Personal
Birthplace
Jacksonville, Fla.
Religion
Christian: Nondenominational
Profession
Business consultant
Contact

Campaign website

Frank Keasler (Republican Party) ran for election for Mayor of Jacksonville in Florida. He lost in the general election on March 21, 2023.

Keasler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Frank Keasler was born in Jacksonville, Florida. Keasler earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Florida in 1980, a J.D. from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1984, and a graduate degree from the University of Florida Holland Law Center in 1985. His career experience includes working as a business consultant. Keasler has been affiliated with the Church of 1122 and Mission House.[1]

Elections

2023

See also: Mayoral election in Jacksonville, Florida (2023)

General runoff election

General runoff election for Mayor of Jacksonville

Donna Deegan defeated Daniel Davis in the general runoff election for Mayor of Jacksonville on May 16, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Donna Deegan
Donna Deegan (D) Candidate Connection
 
52.1
 
113,226
Image of Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis (R)
 
47.9
 
104,172

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 217,398
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General election

General election for Mayor of Jacksonville

The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Jacksonville on March 21, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Donna Deegan
Donna Deegan (D) Candidate Connection
 
39.4
 
66,192
✔
Image of Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis (R)
 
24.7
 
41,505
Image of Al Ferraro
Al Ferraro (R)
 
16.2
 
27,265
Image of Audrey Gibson
Audrey Gibson (D)
 
8.6
 
14,440
Image of LeAnna Cumber
LeAnna Cumber (R)
 
7.6
 
12,721
Image of Frank Keasler
Frank Keasler (R) Candidate Connection
 
2.4
 
4,011
Image of Omega Allen
Omega Allen (Independent)
 
0.9
 
1,584
Image of Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin (Independent) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
 
0.1
 
149

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 167,867
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Campaign themes

2023

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Frank R. Keasler is a native-born citizen of Jacksonville. Frank earned a B.B.S. in Accounting from UNF, a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Cumberland School of Law, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida. Frank is “dad” to four wonderful children: Chapman (25), Grayson (22), Maddox (19) and Fallan (18). A man of faith and uncompromising belief in the gift of life bestowed from the Creator who shed His Grace on This Land. Frank is answering a call by God and of, by and for We The People…Who believe and live knowing this is The Land of the Free and The Home of the Brave, and a Nation where Liberty and Justice must ring true…FOR ALL. Frank will be “at it from day one to see clearly” how we can clearly do government in our City, better, faster and for less tax dollars. Under the CLEAR (Comprehensive Local Examination Audit, Review, Recommendation and Restructuring) Ordinance, the Keasler Administration will look at every dime, every service, every “entrenched” relationship with the COJ. As Mayor, Frank will be emboldened in his commitment to see every challenge and wrong as an opportunity to inspire and bring about change.
  • An Awakening. Building Together. A City of People With Their Heads Lifted! The first order of business for those inspired to lift their focus is to focus on the condition of our Nation. And then the next order, is to affirm to and in one another "Red, Yellow Black, White, and Brown, You have meaning and purpose wherever You are found, The Creator knows and loves all the people of the World.
  • If we cannot come together under that one cornerstone of all of our core beliefs, then how will we change a thing in this city, and therefore, in a hurting Nation? But if we do come together, press hard to enlighten the issue or your challenge to find, one single thing anchored to such fundamental understanding, that we cannot get done together to change our city. By default, if we bring An Awakening. Building Together. to our Nation's cities we thereby, bring healing and unity to our land.
  • If we continue to elect horses boarded, kept and saddled up by and one of the two "Party Stables" as we have for 50+ years, then expect what we always get; nothing but little people, fighting for little power seats, itching to get into the people's cheese and while there -in those seats history saves for little men - these rats raise the cost of cheese! If we want what we have, we will always have a "party pick" which is and has always been, nothing but a dancer for the Marionettist, i.e., the corruption which lives in the shadows of American Politics.
Community Question Featured local question
Yes! Under a new Freedom Charter for our city, never again can - absent a governor's order - our mayor shut down a city without City Council approval and only for an initial 10-day period. Any extension of such "lockdown" would require a 75% vote of the City Council to extend it for another 10 days. After that it takes 13 of the 14 council persons to extend the order and absent State legislation or the Governor's order, no lockdown can last for more than 30 days. In an effort for government to control We The People, we've possibly sterilized a generation, have killed -according to the most recent data - over 210,000 people with the vax, and now we know "the crap doesn't even work" as well as touted and fails miserably in comparison to natural immunity.
Community Question Featured local question
Please review the response given to
Community Question Featured local question
Downtown is not dead but it's not thriving. We need to draw development to downtown and north on Main Street and do so by creating a master plan for incentivizing capital and development to be deployed in revitalizing our downtown and that which exist "north of town".
Community Question Featured local question
It speaks to the brokenness of government that we today find it necessary to ask about "We The People" of Jacksonville being involved in their government! In a Keasler Administration, every budget will include full funding of the True Commission (the "TC"). This Commission was created before the 21st century and yet Mayor Curry didn't fund it in his budgets. The TC is a community representative appointed board, with each Council District having one appointed member to the TC Board. The only and sole function of the TC is to "check" the Mayor's and City Counsil's budgets and propensity to spend and in areas which advance their political careers instead of the betterment of our community as a whole. A K4M Administration would push for the T.A.G.L.I.N.E. Ordinance (Transforming American Government by Local Initiatives and New Enterprise). Under this local legislation, in association with the State FLA.T.A.G. Act (Florida Transforming American Government Act), enacted as part of the Federal T.A.G. Act (Transforming American Government Act), we would create the "S.C.O.R.E. Board (Social Committee for Oversight, Regulation and Enforcement) which would have jurisdiction over a host of "Social Platforms & Services". the Board would be comprised of local residents who would be nominated by the mayor in conjunction with each respective District Councilperson and affirmed by the majority vote of the Council. If a nominee is not
Community Question Featured local question
All city records belong to We The People, so any record solicited will be provided save it being highly confidential to the current activities of the city, but that exception would need to be explained in detail and only good for 30 days unless renewed by the city for up to a total of 90 days. There is nothing we do in the COJ that needs "confidential protection" for more than 90 days.
Community Question Featured local question
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 Nation's 1st ever, “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.
Community Question Featured local question
We do not need to uproot existing zoning and land use planning to meet the situational need for affordable housing. It wasn't until people started flocking to our state and city to escape the despotism of 'Blue States", that we faced a housing issue. Our plan is called M.A.R.s - Making Affordable Residences - which is a JV concept that the city would use to partner with developers to create a "MARs Community" contiguous or proximate to such new development. Under the MARs plan, unless a person is over 55 or disabled, they can only reside in a MARs -publicly supported - Community for 5 years. If we are to address an issue relating to the poor and needy, never again and never on my watch, will we create something that leads to - as with our current Entitlement State - that produces generational poverty and inability of future generations to "make it on planet Earth" without public assistance.
Community Question Featured local question
Given 50 years of "puppets picked by the party" running our city, our next mayor will face something similar to an Emergency Room "triage" situation where he or she will have to quickly determine "who's coding" and who's stable"? Once that has been determined, the greatest need will dictate the greatest attention and focus.
Community Question Featured local question
Please see my answer to Crime and Public Safety
Community Question Featured local question
Based on what was presented last fall at the annual UNF Environmental Symposium, our greatest environmental challenge is "all of the septic tanks" we still have in our county and the vast networks of tidal tributaries, into which these tanks leach high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, and into those same waterways, former manufacturing and industrial activity in our "brown fields" now leach heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and mercury.
Community Question Featured local question
Our city's, as with our nation's, challenges in and with its infrastructure issues, are twofold: (1) the structural integrity of our roads, bridges and stormwater systems are clearly in need of modernization and rehabilitation; and (2) how we utilize existing roadways, thoroughfares and traffic corridors. With the "funds found" under the C.L.E.A.R. Ordinance and the savings made, waste and antiquation eliminated, and fraud and cronyism ferreted out, we should find at least 100MM in savings that will be used in part to start the long-term plan to "Elevate Northwest" to a state of traffic, roadways and stormwater management which the rest of our citizens enjoy. Under the Drive Right Plan, rush hour traffic will be transformed from a taxing, if not nerve-wracking event which our "commuters" experience twice a day, into an experience of cadence traffic flow and the substantial mitigation if not, elimination, of this "go-stop-go-stop" world of driving around our city. The answer to our traffic problems IS NOT MORE CONCRETE AND ASPHALT! The answer lies in utilizing our existing infrastructure in a manner driven by modern technology and with fuel and time savings realized by "Scheduled Commute Logistics" the "SCL") which every user of the "automom.net" and "autodad.net" Drive Right Apps. They are the key to planning traffic with AI logistics created for each driver and based up their daily commute and work schedule. We all use Google Maps and Waze! Why not use a "Mobile Onboard Management" or a "Driver Assisted Device" app which not only knows the accident and congestion sites, but also is programmed to "each daily commute" of every driver in Jacksonville, so that once started the Drive Right Apps, literally "direct traffic" by "tracking the dot" of every car, on every road and which guides the driver to a day of work or the ride home after.
Community Question Featured local question
Please see answer to Crime and Safety
Community Question Featured local question
What we did is display "in spades", the arrogance and unbridled hubris of mankind thinking we could control "life on this planet"! We now know the last three years were a lie, the vaccines made billionaires out of Big Pharma and Medical executives and now the data confirms, all we did is kill our economy, kill small business, kill work ethic and kill any trust we have in the Federal Government and the Big Pharma & Medical Industrial Complex. Today because of all of the fraud and manipulation, "healthcare" is the only word in the dictionary that is an oxymoron in and of itself. There is nothing in medicine today that is "all about the patient's health, and the only thing such industrial magnates "care" about is money. 50 years ago, medicine in America was about the healing arts. Today it's about the art of deception that paints a picture of care to cover the only care they have...money!
Nothing speaks to the character and nature of a city as their philosophies and actions towards “the least of these”. Remember, "the humblest [city] of all the world, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error." For our city’s light to be seen brightly and vividly, it must cast its illumination to warm, brighten and change the paths of our poor and homeless and embrace those marginalized and victimize by the brokenness of our world. With an ELEVATE NORTHEST program we will deliver the first ever HUD & HHS “Regional Life Training Township” and "Campus for Sustained Independence"(our "CSI"). A place where a “town center” of educational -classroom and OJT - and vocational training across as many disciples as are availed, are the focal point of the residents of " On Campus Housing". This is where the able bodied but trapped in generation poverty or otherwise, underserved, citizen of our city, become the B.P.O.C. - the Big People On Campus. A CSI is where we train students to live and, for once, finding a purpose which inspires their applied industry and diligent pursuit towards a purpose and career in a trade or a profession, but always in furtherance of their unique gifts. What we find are lives with the ability to sustain life...independently! Now That's Freedom! In association with ELEVATE NORTHWEST and our CSI, we present to our city the creation of A HARVEST CITY…The Least of These Feed with the Hands of the Most Precious of These!
Jesus Christ, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Sherman, William and Catherine Booth, Robert Ingersoll, Henry Ford, Teddy Roosevelt, Billy Sunday, Rosa Parks, Billy Graham, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Victor Davis Hansen, Bill Maher, Tucker Carlson.
The Federalist Papers, Biographies on Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Theordore Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan. The Bible of course.
An inner being and spirit that is wired, almost in their DNA, to reflect and live by transparent humanity, absolute honesty and genuine humility.
As a 40 year highly educated professional having spent a career in "getting a deal done", providing creative solutions so controversy was quelled, or opportunity attained for my client. What we need in the mayor's office is a business mind and character for handling and leading "the people's business" not the business of my political career. As you review all websites of the Jacksonville, Florida mayoral candidates, there is ONLY ONE which provides the ideas for bringing about the change we need. Slogans, catch phrases and buzz words are the staple of our political landscape. And we wonder why our harvest of life is waning and society is fracturing. History has never labeled a leader because of his or her fancy speech and "tickling the ears of the people."
In the words of the prophet Micah, the only person who should hold this office is a person who understands the calling "to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Only such a person has the freedom to be transparent, frank in all speech and one whose words never change even though the audience does!
The key to this movement is "An Awakening. Building Together. A City of People With Their Heads Lifted. When we lift our heads and take note of our nation and each other, we can coalesce on and in such mutual respect and get anything done to which we put our minds, hearts and souls. May it be that a Keasler Administration is remembered for "how we came together"!
I had just turned 6 when as i watched TV, remembering it like it was yesterday Walter Cronkite interrupted the programming to announce President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. It still gives and warrants much contemplation, that powerful men in our Nation for the sake of power and wealth, would kill our President!

I have with equal recollection and with equal impact on my person, the day i watched Black People marching from Selma to Montgomery, AL lead by MLK and a host of black men out front, marching for the basic right to live in and be treated with equality. I also remember the regular nightly event of watching local and national news, and "regularly scheduled programing" which followed, shortly into that "sitcom" we were interrupted to hear Reverend King had also been assassinated as he took in a view of Memphis from his hotel balcony. Still hard to grasp what men will do for a moment of temporal gain, in attempt to satiate a thirst for avarice and find absolution for a soul filled only with the darkness of the day.
I was 13 years old and went to work as a kitchen assistant in a local Italian Deli and Bakery; Deli by one brother, bakery by the other. From there I was hooked on cookin'! Chef Daddy was not just a figure of speech; my 19-year-old son, picked up the mantle and is an excellent chef and respecter of the culinary arts.

I had that first job for 3 years and until my 16th birthday and "a Driver's License". I've worked every year of my life since 13, and paid taxes in every year I worked.
The Bible if one must select one, for it is the one book that after 60 years reading it, the Word still unveils "nuggets of truth" regarding the mystery of God's Story of Mankind's Redemption.
Well, I am not the best person to speak of fiction. But if one is to pick a fictional character with which to identify, it would be Rooster Cogburn or Don Quixote. Men who stand for something that cost a man to stand are the characters with whom i relate and respect.
Although I am music lover and came up in a music family, sang in College Chorales and Church Choirs, I am not one to remember "top of the charts" song lyrics. If I do cling to a song, it is probably because an instrumental-symphonic production like a song from Game of Thrones, The Transformer Movies or another great movie soundtrack. I tend to lend an acute ear to music theory and composition, more so that the "popular lyrics of the day".
Understanding how little man can be and for such little fame or fortune. How our elected officials will become and do that which is the antithesis of a people in a free democracy...with liberty and justice for all.
It means to me, what history labels as leaders; a person placed in a moment of time on a stage before his or her citizens usually in challenging, if not, perilous times, or times of great moral conflict, and without regard for popularity or political advancement, the leader speaks and acts as the times in which he or she stands, demand and dictate, even to the chagrin or displeasure of the leader. What must be done, is what I must do!
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The mayor is the CEO of the city and as with every CEO in our country, leadership and creative ideas and solutions, come from the top. For once in the last 40 years, if I am elected, we will have a mayor who looks at everything we do and "thinks of things never thought of before, and asks, 'why not'!"
It's the place of my birth, my hometown where i grew up, its people are the best in the world, and we have the glorious opportunity to show America how We The People came together to create the picture of Modern Freeing Living.
Changing NW Jacksonville (the Elevate Northwest program), eliminating waste, antiquation and obsolescence in government processes and ferreting out the rats and cronies in City Hall that war against the notion of change (the C.L.E.A.R. & T.A.G.L.I.N.E. Ordinances), creating the modern traffic system (the Drive Right Program), restructuring our Foster Care programs and how we tend to the poor (the Harvest City Program), and most importantly, ridding our DCPS of a divisive, woke culture and implementing a Lifting Heads Program for our public schools: LIFTING THE HEADS OF PRE-K AND EARLY ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TO KNOW ALL WERE CREATED WITH A PURPOSE; LIFTING THE HEADS OF OUR 5TH GRADERS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO KNOW EVERYONE IS CREATED FOR A PURPOSE and LIFTING THE HEADS OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLERS BY EQUIPPING OUR NATION'S FUTURE IN A PURPOSE!
The people in our cities and therefore our leaders, are the ones who live and know all too well, the issues facing America and therefore, we should be using our Congressional and Legislative delegations to present new and meaningful legislation at the Federal and State levels and which "restructure the way we do government in America." Leaders in D.C. live in a delusional bubble detached from the realities we face in our cities. Since we cannot escape those challenges, we must show D.C. and Tallahassee, what legislation we need to "chart change" in our cities which bring real change to We The People and by default, we change our Nation.
Please see answer above.
Toothbrush company hires 3 new salesmen, Tom, Bill and John. After 1 week a sales meeting is held. Tom sold 500 toothbrushes; Bill sold 300 but John sold none. 2nd week same ranking: Tom sells 1000 toothbrushes, Bill, 500, but John still hasn't sold a single toothbrush. So, the sales manager says you have 1 week to make sales, or we make a change in your employment. So, the 3rd weekly sales meeting is held. Tom sold 2000, Bill 750, and this time John sold 5000 toothbrushes! With stark amazement the sales manager says, "how in the world did you sell 5000 toothbrushes in 1 week?" Bill just said, I went and got a bunch of fresh dog crap and bags of potato chips and set up a table at the international concourse of the airport and waited for those hungry travelers to deplane. As they walked past my table, I asked them "You hungry, want some chips and dip"? They all said yes and when they tried the dip, they all went "yuck, that tastes like dog crap what is it"? And i simply replied "dog crap, want to buy a toothbrush?"! LOL
For the mayor to lead with novel ideas and programs which create a 21st century approach and model to a modern safety net. If the mayor loves the city and its people, he or she must love and respect as much as anything else, the honor of our 1st Responders, the compensation and benefits which they receive and the invaluable service they provide to us.

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Campaign website

Keasler's campaign website stated the following:

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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.[2]

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—Frank Keasler's campaign website[3]

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    3. ↑ Frank Keasler's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed January 30, 2023
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