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SMITH AND HIS DIRT BAGS POLITICAL HIT MEN ATTACK ATKINS WITH A WILLY HORTON TYPE AD TO STROKE FEAR AND RACIAL ANXIETY AMONG WHITE VOTERS
Atkins
IS SARASOTA A MEAN SPIRITED RACIST TOWN THAT CANNOT ELECT A BLACK MAN TO THE SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION ?
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE CONTINUES TO SEND INEPT CLUELESS REPORTERS TO VET CANDIDATES AND COVER POLITICAL OPERATIVES OF PAT NEAL "PAY TO PLAY' GANGSTER DEVELOPERS
Mark Smith is a no name Siesta Key architect, who was brought into the County Commission race to carry water for Neal and his "Pay to Play" gangster developers. Smith
will be just another flunky for Neal's JUNTA on the Sarasota County Commission.
This Smith campaign against Fredd Atkins is the most disgraceful campaign that Pat Neal JUNTA's political operatives have put together in his many campaigns stuffing local ploticians in his pockets.
The local political fossil Neal
There have been many disgracful dirt bag political campaign Neal has been connected to political operative dirt bags operatives like Stafford Jones out of Tallahassee. One of the worst concerned Neal and Jones taking out Venice City councilwoman Deborah Anderson. A Neal handpicked local Judge allowed Neal and Jones and others to escape criminal charges.
SMITH POLITICAL OPERATIVES OUT TO STROKE FEAR AND ANXIETY AMONG WHITE VOTERS
Smith political operative hit men, who do work for Neal and his JUNTA have put together a hit piece on Atkins to make him look like an angry Black man to stroke fear and anxiety among white voters.
Not a word from the SHT that Smith handelers putting out the hit piece on Atkins are the usual Neal led JUNTA operatives. Those operatives are longtime Neal political hit man Bob Waechter, Mac Stevenson and Neal's bag man in Tallahassee Stafford Jones.
Mary Ann Snabes-the inept clueless SHT reporter covering Smith/Atkins campaign
The Sarasota Herald Tribune once again sends young incompentent clueless reporter Mary Ann Snabes to write puff pieces on candidates in the pockets of Neal and his cronies. Snabes joins a long list of SHT young clueless reporters with no roots in the community, who are here and gone within a couple of years just picking up a pay check
Not aword from the SHT that Smith has got in bed with Florida's sleaziest dirt bag political operatives scandalous financed deviosly by "Pay to Play" gangster developer Pat Neal to bring back memories of Willie Horton.
For example, in the 1980 Presidential election Horton was part of an infamous election-season strategy to stoke fear and racial anxiety among white voters. Now in 2022, as Smith plays the a Siesta Key Chamber of Commercec architect, his sleazy dirt bag political operatives, Mac Stevenson and Stafford Jones are stroking fear and racial anxiety among white voters with Atkins.
Gore
Horton was a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Massachusetts, who while on furlough from prison murdered a young man and his fiancé in Maryland. Al Gore first used Horton against then Massachusetts Governor Michal Dukakis in the Democrat presidential primary in 1980. Dukakis was Governor of Massachusetts when Horton, while on furlough committed murder and rape.
George H.W Bush's consultants Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater expanded on Gore's use of Horton to stroke fear and racial anxiety among white voters in well published TV ads in October of the 1988 November U.S presidential election. Ailes is the former Fox News sexual predator who left Fox News, as it former News Director with a $40 million golden parachute.
It is now October of the 2022 November Sarasota County Commission election and Smith's political operative hit men have put together' a hit piece on Atkins to make him look like an angry Black man stroking fear and anxiety among white voters.
Ramirez
It is being put together by the same political operatives used in taking out Smith's fellow Republican Lourdes Ramirez in the Republican primary. Ramirez was the last Republican woman that Neal's good ole white "boy" developers wanted on the County Commission.
Stevenson with Fla. State Senate leader Bill Galvano when he was a "Top Gun" operative
Stevenson used to be a big time operative before losing with Adam Putnan to Goveror Ron DeSantis in 2018. Stevenson now operates out of his Laurel Park neighborhood in Downtown Sarasota joining together with a dirt bag political operative associate out of Tallahassee to take down Atkins, Stafford Jones. They have joined together to put out two flyers to make Atkins look like a Black man looking angry and to be feared like Horton.
The PAC called the Better Leadership Fund out of Tallahassee managed by Jones have put out the hit piece on Atkins. Jones's managed PAC has paid Smith's political operative Stevenson $7,400 to put out political hit pieces on Smith's Republican primary opponent Lourdes Ramirez and Atkins.
Porter
Not a word about Smith'spolitical operative putting out the racist it piece on Atkins in the latest puff piece by Snabes on the County Commission campaign. The SHT is the same piece of journalistic garbage that wrote not a word for over 40 years that the self proclaimed Bishop Henry Porter was molesting raping Black children blocks from their headquarters in Downtown Sarasota.
Jones
Stevenson put the Atkins racist hit pieces together in his office in Laurel Park and sent them along to Jones in Tallahassee. Jones then sends them along with money from a dirty dark money PAC managed by Jones to an ad agency in Washington D.C. --- Political Ink. The PAC managed by Jones named is one of over 100 dirty dark PAC's managed by Jones.
The finished product's send back to Jones in Tallahassee, who then sends out the Atkins attack pieces to mailboxes in Sarasota. That is the same method that Smith used to take out Ramirez in the Republican primary.
The picture of Atkins is not a picture of Atkins with his fellow former fellow City of Sarasota mayors; Not a picture of Atkins of his wife of 41 years; Not a picture of Atkins with
his three children; It is not a picture of Atkins with his 98 year old mother; Not a picture of Atkns at his 40 year SHS reunion; Not a picture of Atkins with local Black prestigious leaders.
SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACCEPT WAECHTER RACIST MAP IN 2019
Moran/Detert/Maio
This despicable action brings back the memories in 2019 when three County Commissioners, who were Mike Moran, Nancy Detert and Al Maio voted to accept a racial redistricting map drawn up by Bob Waechter. The Waechter map disenfranchised Atkins and over 8,000 other African American voters in Sarasota in 2019.
Waechter
Waechter, who is a long-time political operative for "Pay to Play" gangster developer Neal, tried in 2020 to hide behind a mask to create a map that disenfranchised Atkins and over 8,000 other African American voters in Sarasota.
Even when it was uncovered that Waechter used the name of Adam Smith to hide the author of this racism map, Detert, Maio and Moran still voted to disenfranchise 8,000 Blacks.
NEAL'S POLITICAL OPERATIVE WAECHTER PUMPS $2,000 TO NEAL'S HANDPICKED CANDIDATE SMITH
Waechter who put out the racist redistricting map disenfranchising 8,000 Blacks and taking out Atkins in 2019 has recently contributed 2, $1,000 contributions to Smith.
The Waechter map deprived Atkins becoming the first Black man to serve on the Sarasota
County Commission not in the pockets of the Neal's lily-white JUNTA.
This outrageous evil racist attempt by Stevenson and Jones on behalf of Smith to make Atkins look like an angry Black man to stroke fear and anxiety among white voters is outrageous.
Culverhouse
The reaction should be similar to how Hugh Culverhouse Jr. described the actions of three County Commissioner in 2019 that disenfranchised 8,000 Blacks voters and Atkins running against a Neal lackey, County Commissioner Mike Moran. Culverhouse described the actions of Detert, Maio and Moran with these words;
"It (the Waechter Plan) paints Sarasota as amean-spirited, racist town, a place to avoid. A town with a no welcoming mat, but a noose and a burning cross."
The local long time Palmer Ranch developer, Hugh Culverhouse Jr. went on to say this
racist map by Detert, Moran and Maio;
"This Waechter Plan should be a matter for the State Attorney or the U.S. Attorney.......the quick acceptance of a criminal's map that eliminates Blacks is criminal within itself. It is not the politics; it is the conspiracy and criminal action to favor certain commissioners in an election that is important."
Seidman
Smith's and his political operatives actions to bring back the disgraceful 1970 Willis Huron type of depiction of Atkins, also brings back memories of 2019 when Sarasota
Herald Tribune columnist Carrie Sideman wrote;
"Even if by appearance alone, it (Waechter Map) echoes historical racial injustices and blackvoter suppression and sends a clear message to the neighborhood that, once again, the white majority controls its fate."
Seiedman continued, "Adopting a map like this (Waechter Map) one wouldn’t be interpreted as yet another slap in the face of these constituents." Is it any wonder why the Newtown community has long had difficulty trusting the Sarasota establishment? And is there any doubt that fate."
SEIDMAN CALLS INTO QUESTION DETER AND MAIO FLAWEDACTIONS
Seidman added," Making the community hardest hit by this precipitous redrawing of lines one that has long suffered inequities and disenfranchisement represents a step backward in any progress we’ve made toward atoning for the injustices of the past."
IS SARASOTA A MEAN SPIRITED RACIST TOWN THAT CANNOT ELECT A BLACK MAN TO THE SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION ?
Just as Waechter, Detert, Maio and Moran made Sarasota look like what Culverhouse stated in 2019, "It (the Waechter Plan) paints Sarasota as a mean-spirited, racist town, a place to avoid. A town with a no welcoming mat, but a noose and a burning cross." --- the actions of Neal, Stevenson, Jones, Waechter, Smith and others in 2022 echo those words.
IN 2022 THE SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION RACE BETWEEN ATKINS AND SMITH WILL
DECIDE IF NEAL AND HIS WHITE JUNTA CAN DENY A BLACK MAN TO SERVE ON THE
SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSION
IT IS A NO BRAINER THAT ATKINS IS BEYOND A DOUBT THE MOST QUALIFIED TO BE ELECTED SARASOTA COUNTY COMMISSIONER IN 2022 OR ANY OTHER YEAR
Fredd Atkins's campaign for the Sarasota County Commission will decide if Pat Neal's "Pay to Play" gangster developers will once again deny a Black man like Atkins from serving on the Sarasota County Commission, as they did in 2020 and tried to do once again in 2021.
THIS IS THE TYPE OF DIVERSITY ATKINS CAN BRING TO SARASOTA THAT NEAL AND HIS GANGSTER DEVELOPERS HAVE THEIR HANDPICKED CANDIDATE SMITH TO DENY