I have reported extensively on the left wing infiltration of NE Florida over the past few weeks. I have spoken to many people in the area (some pleasant, some not pleasant) regarding what they have observed. After analyzing the situation, I have decided to expand my reporting to cover a 2-county radius, as I feel that Saint Johns County is the beta test, and the actual alpha test was Flagler County in 2022. Remarkably, Angelica Gross and Lisa Gaglianese have substantial footprints in both counties. The similarities of language and the tactics deployed between the two counties are almost an identical match.
Florida has closed primaries. In short, you can only vote in the primary for the party that matches your voter registration. There is one exception. In a race where all candidates are registered to a single party, the primary is then open for any registered voter. To neutralize this loophole, it is common practice for candidates in a primary without a challenger from the opposing party to assist a write in candidate in joining the race. This closes the primary to only members of their party. Without a closed primary it would be easy for Democrats to mobilize behind the weaker Republican and influence the primary vote. In July, rabid Flagler County blogger Pierre Tristam published an article on his far left site encouraging Flagler County Democrat voters to switch party affiliation in order to impact the primary elections.

This tactcic was initially deployed during Flagler County’s 2022 Primary to defeat a sound conservative incumbent in Joe Mullins.

Pennington campaigned on 2 key points in 2022.
#1 – Change your party registration from Democrat to Republican so you can vote for me in the primary.
#2 – Stop Overdevelopment
These should sound familiar to St. Johns County voters as the same tactics are now being deployed there. Joe Mullins is a fierce conservative who would ultimately lose his primary. Flagler County has been worse off since.
Identical tactics are now being deployed in St. Johns County in support of Ann Marie Evans and Ann Taylor.

The common denominator between the 2 counties appears on the surface to be the infiltration on undercover liberal activists Angelica Gross and Lisa Gaglianese. It is my belief the Nocatee pair have influenced and mobilized local pawns to carry out their dirty work. One of the Flagler County Pawns is a man named Nick DeSantis.
DeSantis was highly connected to the Pennington campaign including doing a substantial amount of volunteer work.

Nick DeSantis pictured with Cory Mills
DeSantis is also the vice chairman of Flagler County’s Moms For Liberty chapter. Despite DeSantis outward appearance of Conservatism, he has been known to mirror the exact tactics of Gross and Gaglianese. I attended a Flagler County Trump Club meeting in 2022 where DeSantis staged a protest of Palm Coast Vice-Mayor Ed Danko outside. Danko at that time was a member of The Trump Club’s leadership.
DeSantis’ disdain for Dank seems to have continued into 2024 judging by a screen shot of a text message that I received.

It is worth noting that Diane Scherf, who is the President of the St. Johns County Trump Club, also received direct attacks from Angelica Gross and Lisa Gaglianese. Nick DeSantis is a known friend and associate of both Gross and Gaglianese.
Perhaps the most telling bit of all is the amount of cover that Nick DeSantis has received from the local liberal media. Despite Flagler Live having written multiple pieces criticizing Moms For Liberty and the riots of January 6th, Nick DeSantis has received no criticism.


Nick DeSantis shared a photo of himself on what appears to be the capitol lawn on social media in 2022. This photo was then delivered directly to the editor and owner of Flagler Live via email. The email was never acknowledged and the photo never published.

I reached out directly to DeSantis several months ago for comment on this photo and these allegations. His response was simply, ” Go fvck yourself, and you can quote me on that”. It is worth noting that DeSantis is currently the Sargeant at arms of the Flagler County Republican Executive Committee.
It seems as if the strategy worked in Flagler County, so the Gross/Gaglianese duo decided to up the ante in St. Johns County by taking the Republican County Chair with Manchurian candidate Denver Cook.
In both counties, the similarities are undeniable. Local Conservative groups have been attacked, Manchurians have been installed within the Republican party, the local media has covered for them, and the largest pro Trump voices have been attacked.
There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences either. Two counties who share a large geographic boundary did not accidentally find themselves facing the same exact set of challenges.
UPDATE: It would appear that the Nick DeSantis mentioned in this story has seen a copy out the article. Instead of refuting the claims mentioned, he simple chose to attack the author.

UPDATE 2:
Upon seeing this article, it would appear that Nick DeSantis has gone on an unhinged rant. Notice that none of the facts presented were disputed.

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