She said that the very idea that this star of the far right might want to be an executive committee member initially seemed laughable. She said that back in March she was making a door-to-door effort to get fellow Republicans on her street more involved when she spoke to one of her newer neighbors, Laurie Flynn.īruni says the next day, she was in her golf cart, about to pull out of her driveway, when a man approached and introduced himself as Laurie’s husband: ”I’m Mike Flynn.” “It was me that convinced him to do it,” she told The Daily Beast. One of these new “health freedom” board members was Victor Roe, a retired New York City police officer who has called COVID-19 vaccination “a joke” and did not trust highly regarded Sarasota Hospital to treat him after he caught what he termed “bad case” of the virus.Īs Brunni tells it, Flynn decided to run for the local Republican executive committee at her suggestion. Nor, she said, was he active in the election of three conservatives to the Sarasota County Hospital Board. “After that night, I think they saw leadership,” Brunni said, confirming a Sarasota Herald-Tribune report that she is seriously considering making the move.Īccording to Brunni, Flynn did not play a role in the school board flip last month. She said that several people suggested to her that because she helped bring in Flynn and the Proud Boy and so many others, she should challenge the acting Sarasota GOP chair, Jack Brill. “This is local action at its best! For the first time in a long time, families are involved and excited! Please message us for an application to get involved at the October meeting! Fighting for our freedoms in Florida.we will hold the line! Prayers and love to each of the 50 plus new members.” “Congratulations to all the new Sarasota Republican Executive Club members!” the Sarasota Watchdog page said. “They wouldn't let us take a picture,” Brunni reported.īut several people at the meeting posed for photos with Flynn that were subsequently posted on the Facebook page for Sarasota Watchdogs, which is associated with Hoel and the Proud Boys. The county GOP leadership apparently did not want to risk a furor such as the one that followed the white power sign flashed in the giddy group photo at last month’s school board victory party. “The energy in that room was completely electric,” she said. “They were all sworn in.”īrunni described the atmosphere at the meeting as “so awesome.” “It was not discussed at all,” local Republican activist Conni Brunni told The Daily Beast after the meeting. “It was not discussed at all,” Brunni said after the meeting. Local Republican activist Conni Brunni told The Daily Beast afterwards that nobody was heard to voice an objection to a supposed menace being among them. Ziegler was not at the election of the new Republican executive committee members. The one re-elected incumbent conservative, Bridget Ziegler, subsequently denounced the Proud Boys as a “menace.” Radovich showed up at the victory party in a Proud Boys hat and T-shirt and flashed a white power sign during a group picture. 23 Sarasota County School Board election that saw a longstanding 3-2 liberal majority become a 4-1 conspiracy minority. Hoel and fellow Proud Boy Nicholas Radovich were active in the Aug. On Thursday evening, Flynn was one of several dozen new members of the local Republican executive committee elected by voice vote at the Morgan Family Community Center in Northport, Florida.Īs if that were not scary enough, they also elected James Hoel, a local leader of the Proud Boys.
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