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54 CONSERVATIVE GRASSROOTS REPUBLICAN BECOME REC MEMBERS AS ANDERSON GOES DEEP IN RABBIT HOLE
Thursday night in North Port, 54 grassroots Republicans which included Geeral Michael Flynn were sworn into the Sarasota County Republican Executive Committee (REC) seeking change in the leadership of the REC. The Sarasota Phoenix reported on Monday there would be 61, but 7 were rejected.
Anderson
Once again Sarasota Herald Tribune reporter Zac Anderson is going deep into the rabbit hole pushing the buttons of local left wing liberal Democrats raising their ire with the narrative that Proud Boys, Mom for Liberty and Flynn are about to stage a right-wing coup with this headline,
"Michael Flynn joins Sarasota GOP executive committee, signaling possible far right shift"
There is no shift to the far right of the leadership of local GOP leadership. It could be the end of the RINO establishment control of the local REC leadership and RINO control of other REC's in Florida. The 54 local Republicans, among other Republicans in the REC are seeking changes in who runs the local Republican Party.
GRUTERS BEGAN TURNING THE REC OVER TO THE RINO NEAL IN 2015
Ever since Florida State Senator Joe Gruters was blackmailed back in 2015 and began to move the local REC leadership over to the former Jimmy Carter Florida Democrat Pat Neal, the RINO wing of the local REC has become dominate.
Barfield
Gruters strong principals, political independence and integrity all began to change when Gruters got a visited back into 2015 from the 68 convicted felon and President of Florida ACLU, Michael Barfield. Gruters, who was the chairman of local Republican Party, was informed by Barfield to back off supporting the two Republican candidates running for the Sarasota City Commission, Eileen Normile and Stan Zimmerman.
BARFIELD AND HIS DINO/RINO COALTION
Barfield was part of local DINO and RINO operatives who formed a coalition and conspired to elect two Democratic candidates in the 2015 City of Sarasota elections, who used tactics to defame Gruters in order to promote their own political self-interests.
ALLEGATIONS ON CRAIGS LIST DEFAMING GRUTERS
After Gruters continued supporting Normile and Zimerman's election to the City Commission, on 4/20/15 allegations were placed on Craigs List that Gruters and a close friend and political associate were engaged in nefarious activities.
Shortly after that Normile and Zimmerman reported Gruters support of their campaigns promised by Gruters was minimized. On 4/23/15 the scandalous activities concerning Gruters on Craigs Lists were taken down.
GRUTERS REFUSED TO NAME ATTACKERS
Gruters informed this reporter that his political enemies opposed to his support of Normile and Zimmerman were responsible for defaming him aggressively promoting the candidacy of Normile and Zimmerman for the City Commission.
Jones
Normile and Zimmerman lost, and the rest is history. Gruters became a Florid State Representative, a Florida State Senator and has a two-million-dollar PAC managed by Neal's political operative out of Tallahassee, Stafford Jones, as Gruter has slowly but surely turned over the local REC to the RINO establishment headed by Neal.
Neal
Since the "Pay to Play" gangster developr Neal took full control of the local REC in 2018, he has firmly stuffed the local REC's in his pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to the local REC to "anoint" Neal's handpicked Sarasota County candidates to various Sarasota County political offices, including judges.
Brill
Anderson continues to write Flynn is targeting acting Chairman of the REC, Jack Brill to take over the local Party. First of all Brill is just a flunky of Neal and second of all Flynn has no intentions of taking over control of the REC and certainly not to be chairman of the local REC.
Waechter
Neal's political operative Bob Waechter runs the political operation behind the scenes. For years Waechter has been political operatives for a political machine headed by Neal. In 2011 and 2020 Watcher gerrymandered Sarasota County districts to insure the election of the Neal's political machine candidates in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
Erwin
While Waechter's pulls Brill's strings for Neal behind the scenes, Waechter's appointed Executive Director of the REC, Kelly Erwin runs the day-to-day operations out of the REC.
When Connie Brunni presented the list of 61 Republican to 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.
Neal's flunkies Brill and Waechter had attempted to delay the induction of the 61 through Erwin until the REC meeting in January, after the election of the Chairman of the REC for the 2024 election cycle.
What should be troublesome to SHT readers is that either Anderson actually believes Brill is the "man" running the REC or he has no problem with Brill being Neal's flunky and Neal's political operative Waechter being the political director of the REC.
Brill is just an insignificant local flunky and Anderson needs to stop peddling his nonsense that Brill is in charge of REC as either is Gruters.
Significant number of REC members are desiring to end the reign of the Manatee based "Pay to Play" gangster developer Neal's control of the Sarasota REC through his flunkies Brill and his political operative the three times arrested political operative Waechter. There is no coup of the REC with Flynn heading up a JUNTA.
What is going on looks like ending the NEAL JUNTA corrupting Sarasota County government.
As the local REC circled the wagons to elect Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio and other Republicans in November, stayed tuned, as the grassroots of the local Republican Party makes a move after the election to run out the RINO establishment leadership of the local REC headed by the Manatee base RINO, Neal.