Butthurt Pedicini Elections Supervisor fires four key employees because he can't take an L like a man
Incompetent DeSantis appointee and Pedicini client James Satcher, completely rejected by the Manatee public, aims to sabotage the general election out of a loser's spite.
The battle for Florida — of decent, normal people against DeSantis/Pedicini/Trump freaks and grifters — is truly raging in Manatee County right now. Marc Masferrer has the details on the shocking — if not surprising — revenge a Pedicini/DeSantis-backed “public servant” took on the public because he can’t stand righteous humiliation.
A governor who is not a freak himself would immediately remove James Satcher — and reinstate the four employees. But the incredible-shrinking DeSantis will do nothing but scrape Pedicini’s pudding.
Where’d you go, cover boy?
It’s important to understand that everyone who signs up with Pedicini is forced to trade their personal agency/dignity for access to PAC money and/or the funders of his personal political welfare program. That’s the deal if you want Bridget Ziegler “friend” Pat Neal, etc. to write you checks.
Look at how even the vindictive DeSantis-weasel Satcher tried to duck his submissive relationship to Pedicini, as reported in the Anna Maria Sun. Ask yourself if this sounds like Pedicini client Jennifer Canady when she was asked about forced birth an a candidate.
“I’m tempted not to answer that question. I don’t know what it has to do with my performance as the Supervisor of Elections. Sure, I have a political consultant,” Satcher responded without disclosing the name of his consultant or consulting firm. …
… According to Satcher’s campaign treasurer’s reports, Satcher has paid Pedicini’s SIMWINS consulting firm $41,445 during the current 2024 election cycle. On June 21, two days after the debate, Satcher’s Supervisor of Elections campaign paid SIMWINS $40,000 for media services. On Feb. 6, Satcher’s now-suspended District 1 county commission campaign paid SIMWINS $1,250 for consulting services. On March 15, Satcher’s District 1 campaign paid SIMWINS $195 for a WebElect subscription.
So we should suspect, until proven otherwise, that Anthony Pedicini ordered Satcher to take revenge on the employees and the public. Please deny it here, Anthony. I’m asking for comment. I’ll print it. I know you’re lying low these days; but it wasn’t always that way. You used to be sooooooooooo cocky, cover boy. Don’t hide now.
My favorite quote from that hilarious 2022 Peter Schorsch fluff-job.
An *entire* House delegation anchored to Pedicini
Don’t take this personally, either, Jennifer Kincart Jonsson, Josie Tomkow, Jon Albert and whoever else in Polk County has sold yourself cheap to declining Pedicini-ism.
Maybe you all didn’t really know what’s expected of you now — to bail his business out and do what his developer sugar daddies tell you to, while pretending to hate trans people and kindergarten teachers.
But it’s far too late for Canady to pretend she doesn’t know. And based on my observation, she’s totally capable of matching Satcher’s vindictive selfishness abuse-for-abuse if we ever take her status and/or speakership away.
Tomkow should know. She’s married to Pedicini’s business partner in “SimWins,” after all. But I understand Tom Piccolo is the nice one.
The voters of Polk County — particularly the GOP voters — who wonder why we had such bad candidates and bad races this time, leading to a deserved, but pathetic, 17 percent turnout Tuesday, need look no further than this fact: the entire Polk House delegation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the loser Anthony Pedicini and his gross funders.
Congrats, leadership class of Polk County.
No, Chad, you *chose* not to compete
Also, I thought this was hilarious and telling from The Ledger’s election aftermath story. Kelli Stargel’s long-time do boy Chad Davis complained how impossible it was to counter the all-powerful Pedicini and his dark money boogeymen in race where the winner only need a few thousand votes.
“With such a crowded field, the race was vulnerable to outside influences,” said Davis, a former assistant to longtime Florida Sen. Kelli Stargel of Lakeland. “While I could not compete with the seemingly limitless spending, I am proud of the efforts and message of my campaign. I wish Jon Albert well and hope the best interests of District 48 do not get overlooked in the midst of the power politics of the Florida House.”
No, Chad. You chose not to compete. You took no positions relevant to your constituents. You fought for nothing. You advocated for nothing. You differentiated on nothing. You would have taken Pedicini’s devil’s bargain in a second if Jennifer Canady offered it to you. Like Satcher, you can’t take an L like a man.
By contrast, George Kruse competed. Scott Farrington competed. Manatee County competed. Sarasota competed. Marc Masferrer competed. Cathy Antunes competed. Dear Bubbie competed. In fact, people all over this state competed on Tuesday — and they mostly won. Nobody competed in Polk, except Blair Allen, which is why Pedicini wasn’t humiliated here, too.
I sort of competed, as a private citizen, in two races here this time (went 2-0); and I competed my ass off, as a private citizen, in Jefferson County. I went 2-0 there, too. I competed as a candidate myself in 2016 and went 2-0. I competed just as hard in 2020 and took an L, going up against a lot more money and dirty politics than you did, Chad. That’s happens when you choose to really compete for the public good.
You win; you lose. You make your community better in the process. You drive up voter and civic engagement, rather than crushing it.
In life, sports, politics, if you can’t take an L; you can’t compete. And if you can’t compete, you can’t win.
I am much more influential as a dirty lib in red Polk County and Florida than you are, Chad, because I can take an L like a man and keep competing. This is competing, right here and right now. So either grow up, learn from this experience and compete like a man — or go slink off and take solace in your own impotence.
Maybe you can beg DeSantis for an appointment, like Satcher, then pitch a fit on the way out.