The Developer backed PACs can’t seem to find any dirt on me, so they’ve created their own, attempting to depict me, a lifelong conservative Republican, as a “woke liberal.”   

Some of the accusations attempt to link me to corporate “woke” advocacy of my past employers, and even claim pharmaceuticals are “woke” that I had no involvement with.

The commercial claims I want “more regulations and less rights for taxpayers.” The only regulations I’ve supported strictly pertain to reducing clearcutting and other tree protections that residents have signaled they support.  The attack mailer brazenly lies that tree protection measures are a “tax.”

The mailer even states a dollar amount ($ 7 million!) that they claim I want to impose. A tax requires a super-majority vote of 4 commissioners, but it only took 3 commissioners to reject these measures, proving that Whitehurst’s term, “tree tax” was a calculated deception. (One of many.)

I will never approve a tax such as Dean and Whitehurst placed on the ballot which would have cost taxpayers half a billion dollars over 10 years. Thankfully it was defeated in a landslide.

The attack mailer even holds me responsible for the manufacture of puberty-blocking drugs leading to sex changes in children. I have had no involvement with any such drug, but ironically, Henry Dean will be helping to distribute puberty blocking drugs in his own district with the central fill facility he made the motion to approve.  

The TV commercial and mailer both accuse me of working for “woke” companies.  In my 25 years employed by Fortune 500 Companies in the medical field, I have worked for executives whose political views I do not support.  This fact has not compromised my own personal political views.

The mailer’s final claim refers to a “group” which is actually the St. Johns County Republican Party that has endorsed me and wants to shrink, not grow the size of government.  It is not “backed by liberal special interests,” but by Republicans who want to slow the growth and take back our county from developers.

On November 5th you can vote for a candidate who will represent the interests of residents, with integrity and transparency.

I hope I can count on your vote.