Jacob Ogles
Was U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Republican Primary opponent planted by ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy?
Shortly before the April 26 qualifying deadline in Florida, Aaron Dimmock, a last-minute candidate, paid his $10,440 fee to appear on the GOP Primary ballot in Florida’s 1st Congressional District.
Federal Election Commission reports show he filed a statement of candidacy the night before. The Aaron Dimmock For Congress campaign committee supporting his bid utilizes Maria Wojciechowski as its treasurer.
The Virginia-based Wojciechowski also serves as treasurer for the American Patriots PAC, a super PAC controlled by McCarthy.
Dimmock serves as Director of Executive Development for the Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis and Overholtz Center for Leadership at the University of West Florida, giving him some prominence in the Florida Panhandle. He has held that position since September.
His LinkedIn page also lists Dimmock as the Director of the Missouri Leadership Academy. As of Monday, the page said he was living in Jefferson City, Missouri, though federal paperwork lists his residency in Pensacola, and on Tuesday, the LinkedIn page had been changed to reflect that. The address for the campaign is a FedEx store Pensacola.
Voting records show Dimmock has been registered as a Republican in Orange Park, Florida since 2003. While Clay County is outside the district, federal candidates are only required to live within the state they will represent in Congress.
But after a report in The Daily Caller connected Dimmock to McCarthy and scoured his LinkedIn page finding supportive statements about Black Lives Matter, Gaetz railed against his political opponent on X.
“Meet Aaron W. Dimmock — the BLM supporting DEI instructor running against me in the Republican Primary,” Gaetz posted. “I knew former Representative McCarthy would be getting a puppet of his to run. I didn’t know it would be a Woke Toby Flenderson!”
Toby Flenderson is a fictional character from the American sitcom “The Office” who works as a politically correct human resources employee.
The feud between Gaetz and McCarthy has been well documented. Gaetz, a Fort Walton Beach Republican, filed the motion to vacate that resulted in McCarthy being the first House Speaker ever ousted from leadership by a vote mid-Congress.
McCarthy later resigned his seat in Congress, and has publicly alleged Gaetz’s problems with him were personal. At a Georgetown University event, McCarthy recently said on stage he was ousted because one member “wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old,” as reported by Fox News.
None of Dimmock’s social media accounts appear to have information about his run for Congress. He also does not appear to have a campaign website set up yet.
21 comments
Earl Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
April 29, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Good evening Kevin “RINO” McCarthy,
Florida wont vote for “Your Do Boy” Aaron Dimwit.
So there.
Earl Pitts American
ROBIN HART
May 2, 2024 at 7:50 am
I 100% AGREE!!!!! I would NEVER support anyone who is supported by McCarthy!! He proved to be a HUMONGOUS RINO!!! I’m thankful Gaetz, MTG, and others had the guts to VOTE MCCARTHY OUT!! And although I like Johnson as a Congressman, it’s a shame that he won’t see the same fate. Because he has been voting like a RINO lately!! SHAMEFUL!!!!
George
May 2, 2024 at 9:08 am
In the current GOP, RINO should be considered a complement, a badge of honor. Imagine, being a conservative Republican your whole life but now that Trump and the Tea Party/John Birch nationalists have taken over, you’re too liberal?
rick whitaker
May 2, 2024 at 10:18 pm
ROBIN HART, you are a very dangerous person. the people you posed as being one of the good people, are pretty much crazy. gaetz, MTG, come on, no one thinks those clowns, aren’t clowns, but you.
w Van Wagner
May 4, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Gaetz is a clown and if supporting a serious person makes me a”Rhino” — I’ll wear that proudly. I can think of a number of names that fir someone that would support Gaetz and his clown show — but they are all vulgar.
Kirk E Faryniasz
May 5, 2024 at 10:03 am
With you Van!! Gaetz is a spoiled brat who has never worked for anything, I am told though his family has so much influence he cannot lose.
Paul
April 29, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Gaetz is such a juvenile loser. Riding daddy’s name.
Ronald Knaub
April 29, 2024 at 7:37 pm
Gaetz, you are going to get your butt kicked.
Ronald Knaub
April 29, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Gaetz, You are going to get your butt kicked.
Kirk Faryniasz
April 30, 2024 at 5:07 am
Dimmock is Someone I can support.Gaetz must go and be beaten to MAGA.
basket random
April 30, 2024 at 11:23 am
Thanks for providing factual information about recent developments in the candidacy of Dimmock and the joint treasurer between his campaign committee and American Patriots PAC.
Bob Barquer
April 30, 2024 at 4:42 pm
I dont support any crazy Republicans, but it tickles me to see Pedo Gaetz getting primaried by a dude who is connected to a Kevin McCarthy PAC.
These dudes are cattier than highschool girls (Which Gaetz knows all about).
ROBIN EVANGELISTO
May 2, 2024 at 7:46 am
None of what you are even claiming is true. Accusations DO NOT make a person guilty. And perpetuating A LIE doesn’t make it true either.
W. Van Wagner
May 4, 2024 at 2:18 pm
Doesn’t mean the accusations aren’t true either.
ROBIN HART
May 2, 2024 at 7:58 am
I like some of what Aaron Dimmick has said. But I will NEVER support ANYONE who is supported by McCarthy. NEVER EVER AGAIN!!!! Sorry. We voted him out of SOTH for a reason; WE DON’T TRUST HIM or HIS JUDGEMENT ANYMORE!!! Period!!! Sorry Dimmick! You hitched yourself to the wrong wagon, which now makes you more of a DONKEY!!! Not to mention that Dimmick hasn’t even officially moved to Florida from Missouri yet!! So how can he even have a connection to Floridians at all yet?
RONALD Jeffery KNAUB
May 2, 2024 at 8:00 am
Kevin MC was a nut case.
W. Van Wagner
May 3, 2024 at 8:31 am
Gaetz is an embarrassment to the Republican party. He threw the House into chaos and stopped the Republican agenda for this 2 year session all because he wanted McCarty to end the ethics probe into his sleeping with underage girls. Time to get someone like Dimmock that will serve the people and the party — and not just himself like Gaetz.
rick whitaker
May 4, 2024 at 2:31 pm
W.VANWAGNER, it doesn’t seem to me that nothing embarrasses the maga party. gaetz is just ONE of the embarrassing people that the maga party has. i see almost all of them to be unfit for public service. i guess my standards for politicians are just to high for money worshippers to attain.
w.vanwagner
May 10, 2024 at 7:52 am
You seem to conveniently ignore that the Democrat party has its fair share and then some of loons. May I suggest you look to the “squad” as an example. As to standards, I would rather support those Republicans that will support Isreal and our allies rather than Hamas and desert Isreal.
rick whitaker
May 10, 2024 at 2:33 pm
w.vanwagner, you use your personal money for israel but don’t touch my taxpayer money to help zionist.
daniel cohen
May 3, 2024 at 11:05 am
can someone post a link to donate to the Aaron Dimmock campaign? Gaetz is a sleeze ball and shouldnt be in congress. i strongly suspect he has the backing of Russia and thats a no-go zone for me.
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