Mike Flynn is elected poll watcher. And a proud boy.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/making-michael-flynn-a-sarasota-poll-watcher-is-lunacy

Even by Florida GOP Standards, This Is Lunacy

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Flynn is nationally known as a retired general who has championed the Big Lie about the 2020 election, at one point urging military action to overturn it. He is also known for having been convicted of lying to the FBI while he was briefly President Trump’s national security advisor and for having subsequently received a presidential pardon. He has ascribed to various ”deep state” conspiracy theories.

On Thursday evening, Flynn was one of several dozen new members of the local Republican executive committee elected by voice vote at the Morgan Family Community Center in Northport, Florida.

As if that were not scary enough, they also elected James Hoel, a local leader of the Proud Boys.

Hoel and fellow Proud Boy Nicholas Radovich were active in the Aug. 23 Sarasota County School Board election that saw a longstanding 3-2 liberal majority become a 4-1 conspiracy minority. Radovich showed up at the victory party in a Proud Boys hat and T-shirt and flashed a white power sign during a group picture. The one re-elected incumbent conservative, Bridget Ziegler, subsequently denounced the Proud Boys as a “menace.”

Ziegler was present at the election of the new Republican executive committee members, but neither she nor anybody else was heard to voice an objection to a supposed menace being among them.

“It was not discussed at all,” local Republican activist Conni Brunni told The Daily Beast after the meeting. “They were all sworn in.”

Brunni described the atmosphere at the meeting as “so awesome.”

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