Campaign Financing 2018

 

Ziegler’s Voting Record:

• Guns: Proposed that Sarasota County declare itself a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary

• 12.12.2018  Ziegler voted for Benderson’s Siesta Promenade

• Voted against appointment of Jon Thaxton to Planning Commission (SNL)

• Voted to reappoint Building Industry Lobbyist Jon Mast to Board of Zoning Appeals (SNL) (More Background)

• Opposed redistricting before the 2020 Census

• Supported Mike Moran’s initiative to make citizen charter amendments next to impossible by shortening petition-gathering timeframe and doubling required signatures. See 7.10.2018 video about 2hr 23 minute mark

 

Career, positions on Key issues

• Herald Tribune backgrounder on Ziegler

• Twitter Account

 

Environment

            Ziegler’s background is in marketing and social media. He helped organize a “Water Summit” in 2019, widely regarded as a failure as it applied public relations instead of science to the causes of Red Tide.

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           When the County Commission voted to spend more than $170 million to upgrade its Bee Ridge wastewater plant, Ziegler claimed to have no knowledge of its problems, although it had been plagued with spills of nearly a billion gallons over many years.