- September 7, 2024
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Bob Jones, a Palm Coast resident, has filed to run for the Flagler County Commission District 5 seat. Jones has filed to run as a Republican, and is challenging incumbent Donald O'Brien, also a Republican. O'Brien has already filed for re-election. The primary election will be held in August 2020.
"I’m very good with budgets," said Jones, a retired financial advisor. "I’m going to run based on two promises: I won’t raise taxes, under any condition ... and I’m going to work for $1 for each of the four years, and donated (the rest) to the Michael J. Fox Parkinson Foundation." County Commissioners make $53,950 per year.
Jones was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2009, and, in 2010, retired from Morgan Stanley, where he'd been a financial advisor specializing in commodities and high yield corporate bonds.
Jones previously ran unsuccessfully for Palm Coast City Council in 2007. He filed to run for Florida Congressional District 6 in 2018, but withdrew from that race due to an injury, he said.
Jones is a U.S. Air Force veteran and founded his own company, Jones Property Management, in 1983, he said. It had 17 full-time and four wartime employees at the time he sold 88% of the company in 1995, he said.
