PAT NEAL AND HIS JUNTA ARE REVEALING IN HIGH DEFINITION HOW COMPLETELY TWISTED AND BROKEN FLORIDA'S POLITICAL PROCESS TRULY IS.
Stafford Jones
ONCE AGAIN THE BEHIND THE SCENES GUYS JUMP IN BED WITH FLORIDA'S SLEAZIEST POLITICAL OPERATIVE--STAFFORD JONES--- TO TRY AND TAKE DOWN SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS
Once again, Neal is operating behind the scenes using the same political operatives he has used in the past to manage and fraudulently finance the campaigns of his handpicked political candidates and issues.
In this current effort to take down Single Member Districts (SMD), Neal and his JUNTA of "Pay to Play" Gangster developers are once again using Jones, working in coordination with another of Neal JUNTA mouthpiece, Jack Brill, who runs the local Republican Party. Calls to Brill concerning his relationship with Jones were not returned.
Deborah Anderson
Neal's connection to Jones became crystal clear in Venice Courtroom in 2017 where he was being sued by Deborah Anderson who had accused Neal of financing Jones to take her out in her bid for the Venice City Council. Neal sat in that Venice court room as Attorney Anderson gave clear evidence connecting Neal to Jones. (SEE SARASOTA PHOENIX ARTICLE DATED 8/19/2019).
NEAL GETS $148,910 TO JONES IN DIRTY DARK PAC MONEY IN LOCAL VENICE RACE
At the time, Neal stuffed $148,910 into a PAC named Responsible Leadership Committee Inc. managed by Jones to take down Anderson. $100,000 came from Neal himself and another $48,910 funneled in by Manatee County Commissioner Venessa Baugh. Ironically, that $48,910 from Baugh came from a $50,000 contribution from Neal to a PAC called Friends of Venessa Baugh managed by Jones. The cycle of money flowing is dizzying right?
Jones then funneled $40,000 to another PAC controlled by him (Social Justice), which then funneled $34,000 to another PAC (Protect Venice) to take down Venice City Council member, Anderson with flyers stuffed in Venice voters' mailboxes.
JONES GETS ANOTHER $140,000 TO TAKE DOWN FEINSOD
In 2019, Neal brought in Jones to take out Venice Mayor, Ron Feinsod. Unfortunately for Neal a group of Venice activists led by Mike Shlasko elected Feinsod to be the Mayor of Venice.
In 2019, expenditures from Jones's managed Sunshine Freedom Fund PAC wired over $140,000 to Data Targeting out of Gainesville, Florida. It sends out flyers attacking Neal and Robinson's handpicked candidates in the Venice elections, which included Feinsod.
IN 2021 NEAL BRINGS IN JONES TO TAKE DOWN WHITE
In 2021, Neal brought in Jones to take out now North Port City Commissioner Alice White, who was running for the North Port City Commission against Neal's handpicked candidate, Robert Garren.
In support of Garren there were three flyers sent out attacking White financed by a $650,000 Dark Money PAC called Florida Proster, which is addressed to the Jones's office at the Coates law firm in Tallahassee. The same office Jones operated out of to take out Anderson and Feinsod. **
Out of the $650,000 contributions to Florida Proster there is $146,000 from another Dark Money PAC (Conservative Solutions for Jacksonville) managed by former Sarasota School Board member, Eric "The Prince of Dark PAC Money" Robinson. Unfortunately, once again for Neal, White defeated Garren.
NEAL DUMPS ROBINSON FOR JONES
In attempting to take down SMD, Neal and his JUNTA once again did not do what they have done in the past, namely, to use one of the many PACs managed by Eric "The Prince of Dark PAC Money" Robinson to support the elimination of SMD. Instead, Neal used a PAC called SUN COAST ALLIANCE managed by Jones.
NEAL'S JUNTA USING JONES TO TAKE DOWN SMD IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND
It is not that hard to understand how Jones is attempting to have Neal's and his JUNTA take down SMD and continue to control the Sarasota County Commissioner by continuing to elect the Neal puppet County Commissioners stuffed in Neal's JUNTA pockets.
For example, those thousands of flyers floating around Sarasota County to eliminate SMD are being paid for a PAC called SUN COAST ALLIANCE LLC which is managed by Jones, as usual with the Tallahassee address of the Cotes Law firm.
On 1/25/22, SUN COAST ALLIANCE wired $125,000 contributions from A PAC called SERIOUS CONSERVATIVES (C4). On the very same day (1/25/2022) SUN COAST ALLIANCE managed by Jones wire $21,579 to PUBLIC CONCEPTS LLC owned and managed by Randy Neilsen in Jupiter Florida.
If anyone does not believe that those thousands of devious flyers put on the streets and in mailboxes came from Neilsen's PUBLIC CONEPTS LLC in Jupiter, call him and ask him to deny it. The Sarasota Phoenix has and have received no denial.
This PAC money elects County Commissioners, who are beholden to Neal and his Junta for eight years as Commissioners approving million-dollar Projects for Neal and his JUNTA.
Neilsen is the hired political consultant/A.K.A "Hit Man" for Joe Neunder, who is Neal's JUNTA's, handpicked Sarasota County Commissioner to succeed the term limited Neal JUNTA handpicked County Commissioner Al Maio.
Neunder, who lives in Nokomis, went across the state to Jupiter Florida to hire Nielsen. Neunder wired an initial $2,500. Nielsen will be seeing more $2,500 wired transfers from Neunder to stuff him in Neal's JUNTA pockets, as a Sarasota County Commissioner.
Neilsen
NEILSEN LONTIME POLITICAL "HIT MAN"
Nielsen and his PUBLIC CONCEPTS LLC have been involved with many sleazy campaigns similar to Neal and his JUNTA taking down SMD.
According to Florida Politics, "Randy Nielsen has been called an “attack-meister” — an expert in producing those scathing, frightful pieces that give candidates the chills to imagine. Just ask Miami Republican Alex Villalobos what that felt like in 2006; or Paige Kreegel, in 2004."
Florida Pol continues, “When it comes to nasty politics in Florida, the conversation inevitably gets around to Randy Nielsen,” Tampa Bay Times reporter Lucy Morgan wrote in 2007. “(Nielsen) proudly wears the mantle: the state’s foremost expert on attack ads.”
PEDICINI AND NIELSEN "HIT MEN" SOUL MATES
Pedicini
In the same article it mentions another of Neal and Carlos Beruff political operative "HIT MAN"-- Anthony Pedicini of Strategic Image Management’s. Anthony Pedicini praises Nielsen "as one of the craftiest in the business who taught me a lot."
Pedicini managed the campaigns of Beruff's "Gang of Four" County Commissioners in Manatee County. The Neal/Beruff "Gang of Four" who are stuffed neatly in the JUNTA'S POCKES, placed the JUNTA mouthpiece Scott Hopes in as Manatee the Manatee County Administrator.
JONES: NEAL'S PUPPETEER OF PHONY PAC TAKING DOWN SMD
Jones has been described by Daniel Roth of the Tampa Bay Times as, “A master of the dark arts of creating phony political committees with dubious names like “Citizens Alliance for Florida’s Economy,” or “The Responsible Leadership Committee.”
Jones has been described by Daniel Roth of the Tampa Bay Times as, " A master of the dark arts of creating phony political committees with dubious names like "Citizens Alliance for Florida’s Economy," or "The Responsible Leadership Committee."
VOTE NO ON MARCH 8 TO TAKE OUT NEAL AND JUNTA