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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – City and authorities leaders paid tribute to the beingness of Tommy Haziouri following his decease connected Saturday astatine the property of 76.
“Our metropolis mourns the nonaccomplishment of a existent Jacksonville champion,” Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted. “Tommy, I volition ever worth your friendship, leadership, and passionateness for our community. You volition beryllium dearly missed. Godspeed, my friend. My deepest sympathy and prayers are with your family.”
Our metropolis mourns the nonaccomplishment of a existent Jacksonville champion. Tommy, I volition ever worth your friendship, leadership, and passionateness for our community. You volition beryllium dearly missed. Godspeed, my friend. My deepest sympathy and prayers are with your family. pic.twitter.com/RYoDwagxFY
— Lenny Curry (@lennycurry) September 11, 2021Fellow councilman Rory Diamond besides paid his respects connected Twitter.
“RIP, Tommy Hazouri. Praying for you and your family. What a life,” Diamond wrote.
The person of the Duval County Democratic Party issued a statement, praising his people and integrity.
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“One of our city’s top leaders and proudest Democrats, City Councilman and erstwhile Mayor Tommy Hazouri, has passed today,” Chairman Daniel Henry said. “Words cannot explicit the deepest gratitude and grant we person for him. Tommy exuded class, integrity, dignity, a combatant spirit, and a emotion for our city. Duval Dems and the residents of Jacksonville are everlastingly grateful for his dedicated work to our community. Our deepest sympathy and prayers are with his family. Rest successful Power.”
Former Florida politician and existent U.S. typical besides paid tribute to Hazouri.
“Tommy Hazouri was a friend, a person and a gentleman. He was committed to his community, his family, and nationalist service. I’ll miss him greatly but he’s successful a amended place. God bless you buddy,” Crist wrote connected Twitter.
Tommy Hazouri was a friend, a person and a gentleman. He was committed to his community, his family, and nationalist service. I’ll miss him greatly but he’s successful a amended place. God bless you buddy.
— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) September 11, 2021“The City of Jacksonville has mislaid a tremendous unit for bully successful our community,” erstwhile Jacksonville sheriff and U.S. typical John Rutherford tweeted. “Mayor Tommy Hazouri committed himself to making Jacksonville a large spot to work, play, and rise a family. He was a idiosyncratic person and longtime protagonist of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.”
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Chris Hand, erstwhile main of unit for erstwhile Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, said the metropolis owes Hazouri a indebtedness of gratitude.
“His bequest is massive. It includes cleaner air, the removal of tolls connected bridges, stronger nationalist schools, a afloat inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance and needed vicinity investments,” Hand tweeted.
He was besides a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable person: Warm, gregarious, ne'er knew a stranger. When idiosyncratic met Tommy Hazouri for a meal, they rapidly learned they would beryllium sharing the repast not conscionable with him but with the full edifice (such arsenic the Mandarin @panerabread). (2/3)
— Chris Hand (@chrishandjax) September 11, 2021Tommy Hazouri dedicated his beingness to making the City of Jacksonville a amended spot to unrecorded for everyone. He ever saw the existent imaginable of our assemblage and fought for what helium believed in. Jannet and I volition miss his relationship dearly.
Our hearts are with Carol and their household pic.twitter.com/RJKeTjahD5
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