Local Dark Money - Flipbook - Page 111
Republican Mike Hutchinson is from Old
Miakka and challenged Moran. This was the
Þrst time County Commissioner races were
single member district races.
In the tradition of choosing PAC names
designed to confuse voters, the PAC Florida
Country could be mistaken for a group
supportive of rural voters interests. The
contributors indicate otherwise. James
Gabbert is the developer who petitioned
Sarasota County to put an industrial waste
transfer facility next to the Celery Fields.
Purveyors of subdivisions and strip malls are
contributors, as well a dummy Delaware
corporation.
BY July 12, 2020, two mailers have been sent
out to District 1 voters supporting Moran, at a
cost of $4,793 each. A barrage of mailers kept
ßowing to District 1 mailboxes before the
August 18, 2020 primary. Many of these
mailers lied about Mike Hutchinson, picturing
him with President Obama and other
