It's not small white lies, but big Whitehurst lies that are being used to deceive voters about Ann-Marie Evans. She faces a PAC of lies including that she’ll “raise property taxes,” backed up with a phony facebook citation that leads to nowhere. She’s also accused of donating to a radical leftist group, when in fact she paid dues to her professional trade association for attorneys – without which it would have been difficult to run her law firm. Ann-Marie moved here from a rural part of Washington State (not Seattle as the ads falsely claim), to live in a conservative state aligned with her values. Of course, the attack ads lie that she “brought her liberal values with her.” The attack ads irresponsibly call her an “ambulance chaser,” maligning the field of law that brings justice to people who are injured. (Whitehurst: middle class upbringing, achieves a high school diploma. Ann-Marie: raised in poor family, becomes an attorney, only to be called an “ambulance chaser” by Whitehurst’s thugs.) See Ann-Marie's responses to the attack ads here.
With plenty of conservative creds, Republican Ann-Marie Evans was a participating attorney in the Wisconsin 2020 recount. She’s also mom to a United States Marine and to a Sheriff’s Deputy, and is married to a retired Police Sergeant. Does any of that sound “woke liberal” to you?
Even the local St. Johns County Republican Party has disowned the incumbents and endorsed Ann Taylor and Ann-Marie Evans - known as “the Anns” - causing all kinds of bogus endorsement slates to crop up. Beware of the “SJC Trump Club” which is not associated in any way with Trump, and whose “endorsements” are voted on by just 4 people. They just became a PAC that's running commercials calling the three incumbents "the only Trump Republican candidates." Pure lie. Also beware of the “Conservative Coalition of SJC” which magically appeared recently to “endorse” the incumbents. “St. Johns Truth” is more pro-developer propaganda as is the “St. Johns County Neighborhood Coalition” PAC which pretends to be a grass roots organization, but is funded by developers.
In contrast to the Anns who have no skeletons in their closets, Whitehurst and Dean harbor many.
Whitehurst was sued by his own customer for using a counterfeit Rolex part in a Rolex watch repair. He charged her over $1,000 at his Fast Fix business, which resulted in him paying out a settlement deal in mediation, January 2024. Whitehurst hasn’t paid his 2022 business property taxes as of this writing. In 2007-8, he had two liens on his condo due to not paying his monthly condo assessments. In 2018, he was sued for defaulting on a business loan of $7,926.25. What is he doing on the commission of a $1.5 billion revenue county when he fails to pay his taxes and tries to rip off customers?
Then there’s Henry Dean who earned about $400,000 through his "business" Henry Dean & Associates, LLC, during his eight years as county commissioner, but he hasn't disclosed the name of a single client. Do you think his clients may include some of the top seven companies listed at the beginning of this email or any other conflicted client? If so, Florida Statute 112.313-7 says there can be no conflicts for public officers. How do we know if there are any if not one client's identity has been disclosed? We ask Henry Dean to disclose his complete client list with verifiable supporting documentation. Regarding his lobbying for the polluting sugar industry, Dean went by the name "Isaac H. Dean" for seven years. Was that to protect his reputation as a “conservationist?”
To further help the incumbents, two spoiler candidates have unethically been planted last minute in the Anns’ races; one is a friend and co-worker of Whitehurst’s current (or very recent) social media manager, James Higbee. Her name is Weston Ferguson. The other spoiler candidate is Whitehurst’s (current or recent) social media manager’s grandfather, John Higbee III. Both spoiler candidates' stated goals are to end all development and end all clearcutting -- obviously to siphon votes from Ann Taylor and Ann-Marie Evans and increase the odds of victory for Whitehurst and Dean who will continue to overdevelop and clearcut our county, if re-elected.
In other dirty tricks, the Anns' large wooden campaign signs are regularly taken. After filing a police report, they put GPS trackers on their signs - one of which was stolen. The tracker led police to the property of a developer who had donated $5,000 to the PAC for Roy Alaimo and $1,000 to his campaign account. Among the four large signs stashed on the developer's property were three of the Anns', and one of Alaimo's opponent - Clay Murphy. Report from First Coast News here. We've since learned that this developer has a very large project coming before the commission on primary election day! You truly can't make this stuff up.
Commissioner Krista Joseph's lone votes AGAINST many decisions that are not in our best interest have put a target on her back. She recently voted alone in favor of the millage rate rollback. Commissioner Joseph is such a threat to developers that Henry Dean made the motion to not only censure her, but also to allocate tax dollars for attorneys to try to convict her of an election crime. The other three developer-funded commissioners voted with him – threatening to jail the Gold Star mom whose son died for our country and whose husband is terminally ill. They underestimated Krista’s courage. She filed a lawsuit in federal court saying her first amendment rights had been trampled. A federal judge ruled in Krista's favor. That nightmare, created by Henry Dean and backed by Whitehurst, Alaimo, and Arnold, is over.
Now you know how two conservative, God-fearing, Republican moms were turned into “radical, woke, tax-and-spend liberals” on your TV screen and in your mailbox. If Ann-Marie Evans and Ann Taylor are elected in the decisive August 20th Republican primary, we will have three fiscally conservative commissioners who are not funded by developers and whose first priority is quality of life for residents. They will be careful stewards of your tax dollars. They will not cater to developers when revising the county’s Comprehensive Plan as commissioners are now doing. We should not be expanding our development boundaries and using high population growth projections, but that is what will occur if Whitehurst and Dean are re-elected. It’s already underway, but it won’t be too late to rescind their plans if the Anns are elected in November.
Ann-Marie Evans has seven children including three teens in our schools. Ann-Marie owned a thriving law firm, and is a former victim advocate and public records officer. She has been researching wasteful spending in our county. Ann-Marie is not anti-development, and in fact received the endorsement of the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors. (She was also a licensed real estate agent.)
See Ann-Marie's TV spot here.
Please see the first link on her website which brings you to her response to the attack ad allegations.
Ann Taylor is a Mom of two sons in our crowded schools, and a former business woman of 25 years who worked for Fortune 500 Companies. She is currently HOA board president. A strong advocate, Ann fought to stop a wood burning polluter in Henry Dean’s district after residents had suffered for two years and DEP fines had reached $20,000. She also fought to stop the district from rezoning children away from the school they had always attended – a disruption to education that is occurring county-wide due to overcrowding.
See Ann's TV spot here.
Please see the first link on her website which brings you to her response to the attack ad allegations.
Ann and Ann-Marie will bring compassion, wisdom, transparency and ethics to the jobs of county commissioner, Districts 1 and 5. And they will always return your emails or phone calls, unlike the four developer-funded commissioners who are busy serving special interests – not yours. The Anns want to see more involvement in government from residents, and have proposed some evening meetings to accommodate residents who work. Please see their websites to learn about their plans to take back St. Johns County, and to represent you.
The future of our county is in your hands. VOTE in your best interests.
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1 Florida Division of Elections and St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections
2 “There is no Plan B” Ponte Vedra Recorder 10/13/22
3 #2 schools: Fl. Dept. of Ed.; traffic increase: 2020 – 2023 Transportation Analysis Spreadsheets, SJC
4 Whitehurst text message to constituent, July 19, 2024
5 “ Dean said, ‘ I certainly support their cause and I would vote for it if it was on the agenda , ’” April 30, 2021, WJCT News
6 “ Commissioner Henry Dean called for moving forward with crafting a mask mandate for the publi c Florida ” Times Union, June 30, 2020
7 Florida Division of Elections and Federal Election Commission
8 Facebook, St. Augustine News group, Dean's own comment
9 St. Johns County B OCC agendas and minutes
10 Meeting, Palm Valley Community Center, 5/16/24
11 FloridaLobbyist.gov 2009 – 2015 “Isaac H. Dean ” Florida Crystals (Also lobbyist for Sugar Cane Growers of FL in 2008)
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11 comments:
A gay man or lesbian woman saying, "I will pray for you" is merely partaking in the ideology that has bigots degrading homosexual people to begin with. Sorry. It is what it is.
Lotta people make such statements and then throw themselves into church where the lot of these bigots exist.. claiming "that's not religion" as justification for attending anyway. Guess what, anti gay ideology comes from the Bible. You can try to spin away from that by saying "but Jesus" but it's in black and white in the Bible. Good luck changing that and convincing some people to ignore it. They won't.. they're bigots and they gravitate towards bigoted shit.
that disgusting piece of tripe in my inbox isn't worth printing out and lining a birdcage. who does that woman think she is? Disgusting. Good for Henry Dean standing up for what is right. Don't vote for these people in her control.
Whatever crazy person wrote all that is a manipulative person.. using bigotry to try and influence people to support an unrelated agenda. These people are garbage. You got a lot of garbage in this county. These people are bad, manipulative, dishonest, and nasty people.
You knew what to expect when you moved here Slavin! The phoney baloney bullshit religion, the bad politics, the bigots, the racists, the intellectual squalor, the police state, is it worth the scenery? Apparently so but of course we will hear sky screaming until you take a dirt nap.
I guess it's okay for Henry Dean's PACs to throw transgender people under the bus to attack Ann. But it's not okay for anyone supporting Ann to show the hypocrisy. Thx for your even-handed reporting.
Huh? You are sounding histrionic and haughty, once again. Your sins have found you out.
Your anti-Gay attack on Henry Dean makes you sound like Joe McCarthy in drag. Despicable.
She basically just tried to to justify the bigotry with whataboutism and finger pointing at the actions of others. Just no accountability.
Thank you. More oleaginous Madison Avenue mendacity. Ugly, stark and raw. She's even threatened people with libel lawsuits, not knowing the law. She's now a defendant in a libel lawsuit, allegedly calling someone a convicted felon when the conviction was for a misdemeanor. She lacks a welcoming spirit. Overbearing. Her anti-LGBTQ+ attack on Commissioner Henry Dean is a stench in the nostrils of St. Johns County, adopting a Richard Nixon strategy. We are better than this people.
That picture she made was hateful imagery. Maybe even hate crime. I don't know the nuances of that law.
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