ARE MANATEE VOTERS STILL ENJOYING THE KOOL AID BERUFF AND PEDICINI SERVED THEM AS MANATEE COUNTY BECOMES PARADISE LOST?
Beruff
HAVE MANATEE VOTERS HAD ENOUGH OF THE MANATEE COUNTY COMMISSION BEING CONTROLLED OUT OF BERUFF'S GATED COMMUNITY HOME?
Pedicini
HAVE MANATEE VOTERS HAD ENOUGH OF THE MANATEE COUNTY COMMISSION BEING ADVISED BY BERUFF POLITICAL OPERATIVE PEDICINI OUT OF HIS YBOR CITY OFFICE?
The Manatee County Commission "Shit Show" was on display for all to see once again on 5/24/23 when the "Pay To Play" Miami gangster developer Carlos Beruff lackeys known as County Commissioners entered the Commission chambers to their theme song --"Here Come the Clowns."
There they were acting like a scene on Saturday Night Live comedy hour with Beruff front and center as his Manatee County Commissioners, who are stuffed in his pocket put the finishing touches on horrible series of land use decisions.
Kruse
Commissioner George Kruse provided the only dissenting vote, who on the night before the vote appeared before Jack May's Liberty Caucus group, who helped put Kruse in office in 2020. Kruse heard disapproval expressed of the Beruff project, which Kruse voted against the next day. Time will tell if Kruse has enough of being Beruff and Pedicini's lap dog.
The latest land use decisions by the Commission will dump 5,300 homes and roughly 1.5 million square feet of commercial space into an area of east Manatee County that does not have the infrastructure to support such growth.
The Chambers was also packed back in 2/17/23 with citizens against a zoning change for a Beruff project tearing apart another bulldozed neighborhood, as Beruff sat right up front in the face of the lackeys he has stuffed in his pocket.
Maley
It was obvious as Dennis Maley of the Brandenton News wrote about Beruff and other developers, "Developers clearly believe that it is the responsibility of existing residents to both subsidize the cost of increased growth and bear its other burdens. Hence, commissioners who are supported by development interests are inevitably going to share this view once elected, regardless of how they campaigned."
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE NEEDS TO END CHASING PROUD BOYS AND CHASE DOWN GANGSTERs LIKE NEAL AND BERUFF AND THEIR POLITICAL OPERATIVES LIKE PEDICINI
Again and again, as the Sarasota Herald Tribune chases Proud Boys at the Hollows in Osprey the Beruff and Pedicini SHIT SHOW continues to turn the Manatee County Commission into a their toy to play with, the SHT turns a blind eye to the Miami gangster from Miami and his political operative out of Ybor City in Tampa, Anthony Pedicini.
As the SHT writes puff pieces for Neal, Beruff and Pedicini the Manatee County Commission is run out Beruff's multi-million dollar home in a Manatee gated community and Pedicini's office in Ybor City.
Starting in 2020, multi-million dollar “Pay to Play” establishment developers Beruff and Neal have funneled in over $300,000 in dark PAC and LLC money into Pedicini's PAC and LLC, not to mention a reported half a million-dollar retainer Beruff has with Pedicini.
That $300,000 Beruff and Neal money to Pedicini is part of over a $million dollars in campaign contributions from Neal and Beruff's cronies to their handpicked County Commission candidates. That is real cheap for the $millions Beruff and his cronies are making turning Manatee County into Paradise Lost.
It is way past time for those folks, who watched Pedicini riding around Manatee County in 2020 with now Manatee County Commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge with a flag wrapped around Pedicini to wake up to acknowledge they did not drain the swamp, they created a swamp filled with Beruff and Pedicini's lackeys.
It doesn't need anyone who can chew gum and walk at the same time that instead of protecting the property of the hardworking Americans who have lived on these eastern lands for years, Beruff and his flunkies on the Commission have made zoning change to build thousands of new homes built with undocumented workers, while making $millions turning the once paradise of Manatee County into a parking lot.
As Maley clearly stated in the Bradenton Times this vote and other votes by the Beruff/Pedicini run Manatee County Commission: ''The problem for the rest of the residents in Manatee County is that overdeveloping the previously-zoned agricultural land surrounding Lake Manatee will not only have profound impacts on the quality of life in that area, but will have ripple effects that will impact residents who live nowhere near it.
Everything from failed east-west arteries like SR 64 and SR 70 to utility inflation as the county is forced toward reverse osmosis or other means of securing adequate water into the future will be a bill that comes due on their doorstep."
The question now with the voters in Manatee County, do they understand that Pedicini has with devious, dark, soft money from Beruff, Neal and other "Pay to Play" gangster developers have stuffed seven Manatee Commissioner in Beruff's pockets. Pedicini did this while DISGUSTINGLY wrapping a flag around the Commissioners and a Bible in their hands.
Do the voters of Manatee County who drank the Pedicini Kool Aid realize that Beruff, Neal and Pedicini are laughing all the way to bank on how they DISRESPECTED the flag and a Bible to make $millions in Pedicini grooming Manatee County Commissioners for Beruff's pleasure.
Do Manatee County voters understand as Miley also states, "Developers clearly believe that it is the responsibility of existing residents to both subsidize the cost of increased growth and bear its other burdens. Hence, commissioners who are supported by development interests are inevitably going to share this view once elected, regardless of how they campaigned. "
Pedicini is just a Ybor City based loud mouth egotistical political operative, who could care less about the political philosophy of his candidates. Pedicini takes money from anyone who stuff money in his pockets. It doesn't matter to Pedicini, Neal, Beruff or the other "Pay to Play" developers if their candidates are a Liberal, Conservative or even Democrat.
MANATEE CONSERVATIVE'S VOTERS NEED TO WAKE UP TO THE SCAM OPERATED BY PEDICINI AND HIS LAVENDER GROUP
Pedicini is part of a State wide Florida group called the Lavender Group that purports to be Trump/DeSantis Conservatives, who have in the past taken out true legitimate Trump/DeSantis Conservative candidates.
This Lavender Group having been scamming grassroots supporters of Trump and DeSantis, who been drinking the Beruff. Neal, Pedicini "KOOL AID." They campaign with $millions of dark soft money to elect candidates stuffed in the pockets of establishment "Pay to Play" gangster developers like Beruff, Neal and a few others.
This Lavender Group locally and state-wide include among others; Pedicini, Florida State Senator Joe Gruters, Florida Politics Publisher Peter Schorsch, Florida Politics reporter Jacob Ogles, Michael Millner, Richard DeNapoli, Eric "The Prince of Dirty Dark PAC Money" Robinson.
Blank
A prime example of how Pedicini's Lavender Group operates is latest Tampa City Commission election when Pedicini, who calls himself a Republican political operative teamed up with a Democrat political operative out of Ft. Lauderdale Jason Blank to take out Tampa City Council members Lynn Hurtak and Bill Carlson with attack flyers in their re-election bids against former Florida State Senator Janet Cruz.
Hurtak
According to the Tampa Bay Times, "The anti-Carlson mailers came from an organization called Save Our Quality of Life, whose address is that of Pedicini’s Ybor City office. Since its 2020 creation, most of Save Our Quality of Life’s expenditures, $281,498, have gone to Pedicini’s firm to pay for political advertising, consulting and mailings. Close to half its income of $554,287 has come from another committee headed by Pedicini."
Castor
The Times also reported that the so called Republican political operative Pedicini was also an advisor to Democrat Mayor Jane Castor’s 2019 campaign.
Pedicini's anti Hurtak mailers were aided by flyers calling Hurtak, “Lying Lynn Hurtak” and a “radical activist,” from a committee named Comite Politico, led by Blank, a Democratic lawyer from Fort Lauderdale, who like Pedicini is associated with numerous shell political committees.
Schorsch
Pedicini longtime Lavender group charter member Peter Schorsch threw more dirt at Hurak, as the publisher of Florida Politics. Schorsch stated that "Hurtak is the progressive darling while Cruz is the more moderate liberal and Hurtak’s campaign has ties to local Democratic Socialists. Schorsch also implied Hurak has ties to a child molester without mentioning the child molester has ties also to one of his children's God father, Pedicini.
WAY PAST TIME TO SEND PEDICINI BACK TO YBOR CITY AND THE DIRTY POLITICAL CIRCUS IN TAMPA
WAY PAST TIME FOR MANATEE VOTER TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT MALEY WRITES IS RIGHT ON
"Until voters learn to ignore ideological dog whistles and connect painfully obvious dots, nothing will change."
Mast
BY THE WAY PEDICINI IS COMING TO SARASOTA IN 2024 TO RUN THE CAMAPIGN OF TERESA MAST RUNNING AS NEAL HANDPICKED DISTRICT 1 SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISIONER
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