Overdevelopment in St. Johns County, Florida, is on the horizon unless a conservative, America First candidate wins, said Denver Cook, chairman of the St. Johns County Republican Party. Breitbart News Saturday A few days before the primary election.
He said St. Johns County is “one of the fastest growing counties in Florida, and possibly the United States,” and with that, developers are building thousands of homes each year.
“They have a lot of money on the line and more power given to county elected officials and residents, yet the voices of the residents are not being heard,” he said, noting that development is “moving at an unsustainable pace for both the county government and the school district, creating significant challenges for infrastructure and debt.”
In a somewhat unconventional move, the St. Johns County Republican Party has come out with its own endorsements in response to these dire circumstances, all of which are “America First, grassroots MAGA candidates,” according to Cook.
“They don’t have the money. They’re trying to restore responsiveness, accountability and transparency in government, not at the federal level but at the state and local level,” he explained, detailing what’s at stake for Republican-leaning counties in this primary cycle.
“The issue locally is that if the incumbent commissioner candidate loses the election and is replaced by one of our grassroots candidates, development will be delayed until the infrastructure can cope,” he said.
“And for the donors and supporters of the incumbents – their financial backers – we’re at risk of hundreds of millions of dollars in delayed development. That’s no small thing. We’re on the hook again in one instance, the expansion of a 5,600-unit housing development. County staff said we shouldn’t do this. Commissioners approved it. One of the incumbents said in an interview that that expansion came at $56 million in road impact costs to taxpayers,” he said, citing an example.
listen:
“So how much are you willing to pay as a developer to vote against advising county officials that saved the county $56 million in road improvements? It doesn’t matter the amount. If they spent $30 million to maintain that capacity, I think that was a worthwhile investment. So that’s what’s at stake for the deep-pocketed candidates’ factors, not just locally but at the state level and national level,” Cook said, noting that “they want business as usual where the well-connected and the insiders thrive.”
“And we, the grassroots citizens and public servants, are considered to be on the outside. We’re all facing the negative impacts of what we’ve seen from this county commission, which is trying to offset some of these actions,” he added.
Breitbart News Saturday airs from 10am-1pm ET on SiriusXM Patriot 125.
