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SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT BROUGHT US TOGETHER WITH BI-PARTISIAN GOOD GOVERMENT TO END DIVISIVENESS THEN THE WASHINGTON POST AND SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE INFLAMED AND DIVIDED US
ANTUNES/SCHURR/EDWARDS/MATHERS/GOODWIN AND OTHERS DESTROYED SMD COALITION AND BOUGHT IN DIVISIVENESS AND CREATED A CULTURE WAR IN SARASOTA
Craig
On 5/6 /22 a Washington Post article written by Tim Craig titled, "As community veers right, political division divided Sarasota" and with Zac Anderson of Sarasota Herald Tribune (SHT) assistance they inflamed a confrontation and cultural war between local liberals Democrats and conservatives Republicans.
The Washington Post came to Sarasota to do what they and other major media outlets do nationwide--
CREATE A CULTURE WAR AND DIVISIVENESS THAT DIVIDES AMERICA OVER SOCIAL MORAL WEDGE ISSUESS LIKE ABORTION AND GLBTQ ISSUES.
The Washington Post came to Sarasota to make the liberal Democrats the "good guys" and the conservative Republicans the "bad guys.
The Washington Post and SHT agenda was and continues to be -- to vilify a local culture war by making Sarasota a bredding ground for right wing extremists.
ANDERSON AND SHT CHASING PROUD BOYS AND GENERAL FLYNN
The SHT led by Anderson followed Craig's lead chasing down Proud Boys and who hang out at Hollows in Osprey with General Michael Flynn. Anderson has written numerous articles firing up the liberal Democrats, which also fired up the conservative Republicns, which has deeply divided the Sarasota community.
What resulted was that grassroots conservative Republicans became "big time" involved in getting their Sarasota County School Board candidates not simply elected, but through the finish line with an utter blowout victory. Despite what anyone might beleive, that is the reality of the situation.
Neal
ANDERSON RATHER CHASE PROUD BOYS THAN "PAY TO PLAY GANGSTER DEVELOPER NEAL
Anderson and others at the Sarasota Herald Tribune (SHT) would rather chase Proud Boys who hang out at the Hollows than take on the "Pay to Play" gangster developer Pat Neal, who controls Sarasota County government and the Sarasota Couty Republican Party (REC) corrupting Sarasota County.
For years Anderson and his cronies at the Sarasota Herald Tribune have failed to take on Neal who controls Sarasota County government and the REC corrupting Sarasota County. Local Judges, County Commissioners down to the Sarasota County County Charter Review members are all stuffed in his pockets.
Waechter
Anderson chases Proud Boys, Moms for Liberty, and Flynn firing up liberal Democrats how Sarasota has become a bastion of right wing nut cases. At the same time Anderson writes not a word how the three time arrested Neal political operative Bob Wechter, who racially germanderander Fredd Atkins and 8,000 other African Americans in 2020 runs the Sarasota Republican Executive Committee (REC) out of his office on Sawyer Road.
For example, when Connie Brunni recently presented the list of 61 Republicans to the Exective Director of the REC Kelly Erwin to approve their membership, they met at Waechter's office on Sawyer Road with Waechter running the meeting. Erwin conducts most of the REC business at Waechter's office.
CRAIG AND ANDERSON HAVE LIT A FIRE TO A LOCAL LIBERAL/CONSERVATIVE CULTURAL WAR DAMAGING A GOOD GOVERNMENT COALITION
Craig and Anderson articles have severely damaged the coalition of a Sarasota County wide good government bi partisan coalition of Democrats/ Republicans and Independents put together to create Single Member Districts (SMD).
Instead of turning the local School Board races into an non partisian race they along with liberal Democrats turned the School Board races into a cultural war which led to local conservative Republican Sarasota County School Board victories.
Moira Dictor
Contrast School Board races in Sarasota County and Seminole Counties where a political savvy chairman of the local Seminole Democrat Party Lynn Moira Dictor was successful in electing Democrats to the school board. She did not have the Washington Post and SHT turning the School Board races into a cultural war, as what happened in Sarasota.
Either did she allow the liberal Democracs destroy her plans of putting together a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and Idependents to elect her candidates, as what happened in Sarasota.
DeVries
Chairwoman of the Sarasota County Democrat Executive Committee (DEC) Joanne DeVries inept leadership enabled Anderson, Craig and local liberal Democrats enflaming a cultural war leading to conservative Republican victories.
If it is true for DeVries to say, "Proud Boys, Mom for Liberty and General Flynn came together to defeat the Democrat school board candidates" then DeVries, Anderson, Craig and local liberal Demorats allowed that to happen despite being outspent $282,000 to $485,000?
The local coservative Republican field operation led by the Moms for Liberty blew out the liberal Democrat Get Out The Vote (GOTV) effords.
Recently DeVries bragged that the REC's Jack Brill, who plays the DEC chairperson like a violin told her he was surprised how close the the Democrats came to winning the School Board races. A few hours later on local media outlets, Brill bragged how the Republicans "destroyed" DeVries's Democrats.
CRAIG AND ANDERSON IGORNED SMD COALITION AND INFLAMED CULTURAL WAR IN SARASOTA
Instead of writing the approval of SMD had brought Sarasota Democrats, Republicans and Independents to limit the influence of big money and development interests on commission races, Craig and Anderson have enflamed a culture confrontation at the Sarasota County School Board meetings between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. .
For example, the WaPost and SHT articles have followed on 3/8/22, Sarasota residents voting down a referendum to move to a system that would have allowed voters throughout the county to elect all five commissioners.
NEAL'S GANGSTERS CONTROL COUNTY COMMISSION AND REC
That vote on 3/8/22 followed a 12/7/21 Board of Sarasota County Commissioners, who are deep in the pockets Neal and Gangster "Pay to Play" developers defying the voters of Sarasota County in approving SMD IN 2018 by putting forth a referendum to end SMD.
Brill
The leadership of the local Republican Party (REC) led by Brill, who is a Pat Neal/Randy Benderson flunky endorsed the idea to take out SMD. It is o secret that Brill is Neal's "Pay to Play" developer patsy, who annoints Neal's handpicked candidates.
REC LEADERS WERE OUT OF TOUCH WITH GRASS ROOTS ON SMD
Many Republicans were supportive of keeping single-member districts, which have been pitched as a way to limit the influence of big money and development interests on commission races.
The repeal referendum failed in precincts throughout the county, including in heavily Republican areas in South County. Every precinct in Englewood and the vast majority of precincts in the Venice area voted against the repeal referendum, despite both communities being strongly Republican.
SMD won a divisive victory despite a Tallahassee base Dark/Dirty PAC managed by a long time Neal political operative Stafford Jones expanding over $100,000 to defeat SMD.
ZIEGLER BIG LOSER IN SMD VICTORY
The failure of the referendum was also a defeat for Christian Ziegler, who fought hard to repeal single-member districts and had a lot at stake in the outcome of the vote.
A polarizing figure who serves as vice chair of the Florida GOP, Ziegler is one of the most deeply partisan individuals to serve on the commission in recent years, making him a target of critics.
One of the most immediate consequences of the referendum’s failure was that Ziegler’s decided not to seek re-election knowing a defeat would put his political future in doubt.
CRAIG AND ANDERSON IGNORES SMD AND INFLAMES LOCAL CULTURE WAR
On 5/6/22, Craig wrote his article that inflamed a confrontation and cultural war between local liberals Democrats and conservatives Republicans. Craig's article severely damaged the SMD bi partisan coalition and will divide the community for years.
THE CLUELESS CRAIG PROMOTED THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TAKE DOWN OF SMD COALITION
Craig knowledge of local politics was what he was told existed in Sarasota by the self-appointed leaders of the left wing liberal Democrats movement Cathy Antunes, Carol Learner, Lisa Schurr, Shane Kiser and Shanice Wire.
Craig was clueless to understand that the SMD coalition put together to limit the influence of big money and development interests on commission races was destroyed by local political incompentents Antunes, Schurr, Kiser, Learner, Wire, Tom Edwards, Kay Mathers and a few others.
Craig proceeded to make the Antunes/Schurr/Learner trio the led in taking on a local Republican Conservative movement he believed was led by Christian and Bridget Ziegler.
Antunes
Antunes, Schurr and Learner were leaders of no legitimate grassroots organization that has trouble with their members filling a phone booth. Antunes has a radio show called The Detail reaching out to her choir members. Antunes broadcasts out of the local liberal Democrat bastion in Downtown Sarasota called Fogartyville, which is local Democrat liberal progressive hangout.
Antunes has a deep fanatic type dislike for the Ziegler's, attacking them almost on a daily basis. She made them her target stating at School Board meetings and on her DETAIL blog and radio show with words like these,
"There is a culture that the Ziegler's have fostered that puts party over country, party over community and is all just about winning and they don’t care how they win. If you don’t call these people out where they live, it just spreads.
SCHURR - FORMER SOVIET UNION TAX CONSULTANT
Schurr is a want-a-be local social elitist with a major jealous obsession with Bridget Ziegler calling Ziegler "the Mother Teresa of the Republican Party." Thinking that is something to be ashamed of is quite revealing of Schurr's beliefs.
Schurr has recently emerged in Sarasota as a self-acclaimed expert on local School board matters after spending 10 years in the Soviet Union as a tax consultant---GO FIGURE.
Mathers
Mathers joined the Democrat Party in 2018 and is a local Democratic political operative. Mathers is the Florida director of Ruth's List, which recruits Democrat liberal women candidates.
Edwards
Edwards is a Sarasota County School Board member moonlighting as a local Democrat political operative. Edwards is former resident of New York where he owned a liquor store. He upset Eric Robinson in a School Board race in 2020 due to Robinson's negatives.
Goodwin, who made the above quote to Sarasota Herald Tribune reporter Ryan McKinnon concerning Ziegler supporters is a local hack politician. Goodwin in order to get elected over the years to the School Board in a heavily Republican area ran as a Republican for the School Board. After stating she would not run for re-election, Goodwin came out of the closet and became a Democrat attacking Bridget Ziegler.
MOMS LED REC GRASSROOTS
This once SMD coalition now destroyed saw liberal Democrats attackig Republicans conservatives, which were a united group of folks involved with Moms for Liberty, Moms for America and group called ABCD led by a South County activist Connie Brunni.
ZIEGLER ARCHITECT OF CONSERVATIVE TAKE OVER OF SCHOOL BOARD
Christian Ziegler, although not in control of the local conservative Republican grassroots organization was the architect of the recent clean sweep of the three Republican Sarasota County School Board members.
Ziegler runs a professional operation, Microtargetting Media targeting the voters needed to win and sends out messages to those voters. The members of grassroots organizations knock on those doors of targeted Ziegler voters and got them and other supporters out to vote, especially on Election Day.
Christian Ziegler only concerned in re-electing Bridget Ziegler and two other conservative Republican School Board members used his Get Out The Vote (GOTV) skills in coordination with a strong field organization. The field organization put together a united front behind a ELECT ZEM (Ziegler/ Enos/ Marinelli) slogan to destroy the Democratic liberal candidates.
ZIEGLER RECENT ATTACK ON ZEM VOLUNTEERS SHAMEFUL
Bridget Ziegler recent attack on those ZEM volunteers that worked tirelessly for her re-election and the other two conservative school board members was shameful. Without their support Zieiegler, Ton Enos and Robyn Marinelli would have lost.
Ziegler with a Proud Boys rally in Downtown Sarasota in 2017
It is obvious the Bridget Ziegler deceitful attack of those folks being demonized by Anderson and other SHT reporters is coming from Christian Ziegler. Christian Ziegler wants to distance himself from his past involvement with Proud Boys, as he seeks the chairmanship of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF)..
VULGAR/TOXIC LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS
In Anderson recent attacking "right wing extreminist" no mention that the local left-wing extremist that Schurr is part of can be as extremely vocal as they accused those they call right wing extremists can be. Those on the left can be as vocal as the right-wing extremists in using Sarasota County as an incubator for controversial social issues that fire up liberals but don't serve the county's interests.
SOS forum at Fogartyville in Rosemary District
They "hang out" at a facebook page called Sarasota Manatee Schools OPEN Forum and at Fogartyville in the Rosemary District in Downtown Sarasota. They push the social cultural agenda financed by the local nonprofit million-dollar foundations.
Kiser
The Sarasota Manatee OPEN Forum is monitored by Shanice Wire and the vulgar toxic Share Kiser. If you do not follow their agenda, you are banned from the forum.
Their vulgarity make the Proud Boys sound like the choir boys. For example these are some of what Kiser writes;
"You're a liar, a fake, and a hack. I told you not to bother posting fake news in my OPEN Forum. It's never gonna pass muster" continued writing the following:
There were PLENTY of sorry, vapid women who have sadly internalized misogyny and also want to grab desantis by the dick to fill a room.
We all know how much catholics love fucking little children and covering up for each other when y'all do it. No womder there's nothing you old dinosaurs clinging so desperately to your imaginary sky daddy.
She's a gold digging social climber, and he's certainly a step above her slovenly hubby in the gop heirarchy. Mark my words... her lusty, power hungry eyes are on the prize, and christian ain't it, and neither are you."
SOCIAL ELITE FOUNDATIONS SILENT ON EXTREMISTS' ATTACKS
What is troublesome is that local cultural elites in partnership with the not-for-profit local foundations promoted and financed liberal Democrat candidates for their liberal social cultural agenda, while left wing extremists viciously attacking those who disagree with their agenda.
THE RESULTS OF WASHINGTON POST AND SHT TROUBLESOME AGENDA OF PROMOTING DIVISIVENESS
The Washington Post and SHT agenda was and continues to be--velify a local culture war by making Sarasota a bredding ground for right wing extremiss.
The reality is that Antunes, Learner and Schurr destroyed the SMD coalition and turned it into their own personal agenda to take out the Ziegler's and elect the liberal Democrats to the Sarasota School Board.
They joined together with Democrat School Board members Edwards, Goodwin, Shirley Brown, Mathers of Ruth Lists, local foundations and GLBTQ organizations to take on local Republican organizations backing Republican candidates for the School Board.
As stated above-what resulted was that grassroots conservative Republicans became "big time" involved in getting their Sarasota County School Board candidates not simply elected, but through the finish line with an utter blowout victory. Despite what anyone might beleive, that is the reality of the situation.