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Daily Outtakes: Ashley H. gets dose of her political medicine

AH mailer Nov 2024

Ashley Hofberger
Nov 2024 mailer

District 4 voters have received a mailer from a political action committee blasting Commissioner Ashley Hofberger as “unqualified, unserious & already corrupt.”

BACKGROUND: Hofberger has had no problems going negative during her campaign. In a very tight Republican primary for the District 4 commission seat, Committee to Protect Florida mailed a flyer to District 4 voters that darkly colored Walker Wilson and called him out for being friends with Lumon May. The flyer said: “We don’t need another ‘Downtown Democrat’ on the County Commission!”

Buck Mitchell, who also was running for the District 4 seat, had no ties to Mark Zubaly, who runs the Committee to Protect Florida. His campaign told Inweekly, “The Mitchell campaign has no paid or unpaid political consultants. Buck is advised by only family and close friends.”

Committee to Protect Florida is a PAC run by State Rep. Michelle Salzman, who denied any knowledge of the mailer. Hofberger also denied any knowledge of it, but we found out that it was a lie.

REALITY: Just like Hofberger’s attack on Wilson, there are facts behind the mailer. Wilson is a friend of Lumon May, and Hofberger did win several bikini contests during her younger days, even the  2012 Panhandle Showdown. However, neither fact disqualifies them from being county commissioners.

For more, you can read:

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