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PAY TO PLAY" GANGSTER DEVELOPERS LED BY NEAL AND BERUFF SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT NEAL'S JUNTA DOES NOT WANT A BLACK MAN AS A SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSIONER "
THE LOCAL POLITICAL FOSSIL NEAL
Neal's bag man Robinson and Neal criminal poliical fraud operative - Waechter
THE JUNTA
As Pat Neal criminal political operative Bob Waechter and Neal's bag man Eric "The Prince of Dirty Dark PAC Money" Robinson celebrated the defeat of Fredd Atkins while "hanging out" together at the Sarasota County Supervisor Election office on 11/8/22 it became clear -----
that the local political fossil Pat Neal and his other "Pay to Play" gangster developers and their followers in the white community will not tolerate a Black man to be a Sarasota County Commissioner, who will not- go-along-to- get-along.
Two "Pay to Play" gangster developers - Neal and Beruff and two of their flunkies with another flunky Sarasota County Commissioner Mike Moran at a Selby Gardens gala
Sarasota's white social elite donor class at a Selby Gardens gala
There is absolutely no doubt now that as long as Neal's led JUNTA and Sarasota's white social elite donor class continue to control Sarasota County, it will be a "mean-spirited, racist county to avoid. This is a county with a no welcoming mat, but a hidden political noose and a burning cross."
ATKINS'S GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN LOST TO BY .05 TO NEAL'S WHITE SOCIAL ELITE DONOR CLASSS
SMITH RAISED $207,575 FROM 167 CONTRIBUTORS
ATKINS RAISED $ 106,632 FROM 543 CONTRIBUTORS
There is absolutely no doubt now that as long as Neal's led JUNTA continue to controll Sarasota County it will be a "mean-spirited, racist county to avoid. This is a county with a no welcoming mat, but a hidden political noose and a burning cross."
AND NOT A WORD FROM THE SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
ATKINS AND NEAL GREW UP IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS OF RACIAL JUSTICE
Atkins was born and raised in Sarasota during segregation and ever since, as a student of the first intergrated Sarasota High School he has led the fight for racial justice. Neal grew up in the white enclaves outside of Des Moines, Iowa and Longboat Key before putting together his lily white Neal Communities.
Just take a look at the employees of Neal Communities.
There are two Blacks in the back of the recent photo of employees at Neal Communities.
LOVINGOOD TURNED THE JIMMY CARTER DEMOCRAT NEAL INTO THE RINO WHO LEADS THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN PARTY
The Lovingood's
Neal would be just another former local flunky failed politician if it wasn't for being married to the daughter of the "good ole boy" head of the local Sarasota segergated Republican Party, Joe Z. Lovingood.
Neal as Florida Jimmy Carter Democrat State Senator
For example, after being run out of Tallahassee as a Jimmy Carter Democrat Florida State Senator for twelve tears, Neal's father- in-law allowed the RINO Neal to crawl into the local Repunlican Party.
AND NOT A WORD FROM THE SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
Atkins
ATKINS DEFEATED BY ANOTHER FLUNKY FOR THE CORRUPT DONOR CLASS
Atkins, who served 12 years as a Sarasota City Commission with four of those years as the Mayor of Sarasota was defeated by a architect from Siesta Key. Smith needs a flashlight to get out of the pockets of the slimiest dirt bag racist "Pay to Play" gangsters corrupting Sarasota County. Smith will be just another flunky turning Sarasota County into " A Paradise lost.
Smith
DETERT/MAIO/MORAN RACIALLY DISENFRANCHISED OVER 8,000 BLACK VOTERS IN 2019
Moran/Detert/Maio
Back in 2019, Waechter put together a racist redistricting map approved by the Sarasota County Commissioner on a 3-2 vote to gerrymander over 8,000 Black of voting in 2020 to elect Atkins for Sarasota County Commission. Commissioners Nancy Detert, Al Maio and Mike Moran voted for the Waechter map. Commissioners Charles Hines and Christian Ziegler voted against the Waechter map.
The approval of the map allowed Moran to be stuffed in "Pay to Play" gangster developrs pockets for four more years..
NEAL NEEDED FOUR DIRT BAG COUNSULTANTS TO TAKE OUT ATKINS
1. The criminal arrested for political fraud, Waechter.
2. Neal's bag man in Sarasota-Eric "The Prince of Dirty Dark PAC Money" Robinson.
Robinson was Atkins's opponent Mark Smith campaign treasurer. Robinson moved Smith's over $200,000 in campaighn contributions from "Pay to Play" gangster developers and their cronies in in and out of his accountant office in Venice.
3. Mac Stevenson, who uses his 19-year-old stepson and Robinson to move dirty dark PAC Money to elect Neal JUNTA'S candidates. Stevenson put togethr the racist Willie Hoton add.
4. Neal's bag man in Tallahassee who is the dirt bag Stafford Jones who manages over 150 dirty dark PAC out of Tallahassee with some out of FED EX post office boxes
Pedicini
DIRT BAG COUNSULTANTS WORKING FOR DIRT BAG DEVELOPERS
All these dirt bags operatives working together is examplified in an article in Florida Politics quoting Robinson working together with the most slimmest dirt bag political consultant Anothony Pedicini. "I don’t have any problem with Anthony (Pedicini). We have clients together. I’m not in the business of pissing off political consultants. That’s not what treasurers do,” Robinson said. “That’s how I make my livelihood, working with political consultants.”
AND NOT A WORD FROM THE SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
SIESTA KEY VOTERS RATHER HAVE HOTELS THAN VOTE FOR A BLACK MAN
Then there are the great majority of voters on Siesta Key who would rather have hotels on Siesta Key than vote for a Black man to be a Sarasota County Commissioner. For example, Smith, who took 677 more votes on Siesta Key than Atkins was last seen on 11/2/22 picking up four campaign checks at the Icard/Merrill law firm in Downtown Sarasota.
Merrill
Those checks were from two rainmaker attorneys defending an entity to put a hotel on Siesta Key. Two, $1,000 checks came from attorney William Merrill III and two, $750 checks came from attorney Matthew Brockway.
AND NOT A WORD FROM THE SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
ATKINS NO GO ALONG GET ALONG POLITICIAN
Waechter and Mason
Once Atkins was approached by a member of the white leadership of the local Republican Party with the promise he would become a Sarasota County Commissioner if he turned Republican---ATKINS REFUSED.
White social elite at a Selby Gardens gala
ATKINS HAS NEVER BEEN A MAN TO GO-ALONG-TO-GET ALONG WITH NEAL AND THE WHITE SOCIAL ELITE THAT HAVE CONTROLLED SARASOTA DURING AND AFTER SEGERGATION
Shaw
Another Black man who was desposed for not going along to get along with with the establishment controling Sarasota was former Sarasota City Commissioner Willie Shaw.
Shaw had been gathering the disapproval of the Argus/Chamber/GBX lily white good old boy donor crowd. They did not want some uppity Black giving them a problem with $millions$ of Tax Increment Funding (TIF) and voting down their other million-dollar City of Sarasota projects.
WHITE DONOR CLASS AND SELBY GARDENS ELITE WANTED SHAW OUT
In addition, the white social elite at Selby Gardens also had a problem with Shaw for voting against their multimillion-dollar project, which would destroy the ambiance of the surrounding neighborhoods.
KYLE BATTIE AN UNLICENSED MASSEUR AND DOG WALKER TOOK OUT SHAW FOR SARASOTA CITY COMMISSION
How totally unhinged and deranged has the City of Sarasota government become since the
establishment promoted and elected a 53-year-old unlicensed masseur who abused a dog in Indiana, drives without a license on numerous occasions and only voted 8 times in the last 30 years?
ATKINS WAS BEYOND A DOUBT THE MOST QUALIFIED TO BE ELECTED SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN 2022 OR ANY OTHER YEAR
ATKINS ATTEMPT TO BRING A RACIAL DIVERSE/BI-PARTISIAN GOOD GOVERNMENT APPROACH TO THE SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION HAS ONCE AGAIN FAILED
ONCE AGAIN IN 2022 NEAL AND HIS "PAY TO PLAY" GANGSTER DEVELOPERS DENIED A BLACK MAN TO SERVE ON THE SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION
NEAL AND HIS CRONIES ARE NO DIFFERENT THOSE WHO RAN SARASOTA BACK IN THE DAY
Neal and his "Pay to Play" gangster developer cronies are no different than the folks in the City of Sarasota, who back in the day kept Blacks from being part of the Sarasota City Commission.
ATKINS WAS BEYOND A DOUBT THE MOST QUALIFIED TO BE ELECTED SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN 2022 OR ANY OTHER YEAR