{"id":1598525,"date":"2022-08-10T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598525"},"modified":"2022-08-10T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:18:09","slug":"top-gov-desantis-challenger-paid-thousands-to-liberal-activist-currently-facing-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gov-desantis-challenger-paid-thousands-to-liberal-activist-currently-facing-sexual-assault-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gov. DeSantis Challenger Paid Thousands to Liberal Activist Currently Facing Sexual Assault Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-gov-desantis-challenger-paid-thousands-to-liberal-activist-currently-facing-sexual-assault-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Florida Democrat Charlie Crist hired Jack Cocchiarella after college Dems chapter ousted young activist over troubling allegations<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTwitter\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 August 9, 2022 4:57 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis&#8217;s (R.) top Democratic opponent paid thousands of dollars to a young liberal activist who is facing &#8220;campus-wide allegations of sexual assault&#8221; at his former Ivy League school.<\/p>\n<p>On July 8, Democrat Charlie Crist&#8217;s gubernatorial campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-08-at-4.11.04-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid<\/a> $2,250 to Politically Correct Strategies\u2014a consulting company <a href=\"https:\/\/search.sunbiz.org\/Inquiry\/CorporationSearch\/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=RegisteredAgentName&#038;directionType=Initial&#038;searchNameOrder=COCCHIARELLAJACKD%20L220000162660&#038;aggregateId=flal-l22000016266-d2e2f1d2-d278-4b4d-91eb-b37aaaa99231&#038;searchTerm=Cocchiarella&#038;listNameOrder=COCCHIARELLADIANEH%20P040000195830\" rel=\"noopener\">registered<\/a> to Gen Z liberal activist and former Dartmouth student Jack Cocchiarella\u2014for &#8220;digital consulting.&#8221; Just weeks later, on July 28, the prestigious school&#8217;s College Democrats chapter revealed it <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-04-at-11.10.57-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ousted Cocchiarella<\/a> from the club &#8220;in late October 2021, following campus-wide allegations of sexual assault.&#8221; Those allegations emerged publicly in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dartmouth\/comments\/re9rju\/beware_there_is_a_serial_rapist_on_campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">string<\/a> of December 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApplyingToCollege\/comments\/recmol\/sadly_sexual_assault_still_happens_in_the_ivy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ApplyingToCollege\/comments\/rf2unj\/more_info_on_the_dartmouth_sexual_assaults\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posts<\/a>, which accused Cocchiarella of using &#8220;his Twitter notoriety and left-wing credentials to position himself as an ally. Then, once people let their guards down, he rapes them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crist, who did not return repeated requests for comment, has remained silent on the accusations facing his campaign aide. By his own logic, that silence means he endorses Cocchiarella&#8217;s alleged behavior\u2014in a June 29 tweet, Crist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieCrist\/status\/1542274641112498176?s=20&#038;t=NO4ZdaTCD6o3Int5ti6lgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressed DeSantis<\/a> to condemn the January 6 riots, writing, &#8220;Is it just me, or do you agree that his silence = endorsement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crist is not the only prominent Democrat to hire Cocchiarella following the troubling allegations. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s (R., Ga.) Democratic opponent, Marcus Flowers, has paid Cocchiarella&#8217;s firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00768101&#038;recipient_name=politically+correct+strategies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than $40,000<\/a> since October 2021, when the activist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDCocchiarella\/status\/1449512013743464448?s=20&#038;t=J5Rmsh_ozS0oXq7PgMuAHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> his &#8220;new role&#8221; as Flowers&#8217;s digital director.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers has his own alleged issues with women. In July 2016, the Democrat attempted to dump his ex-wife\u2014Russian national Svetlana Chudinova\u2014at a local homeless shelter, court documents <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/162900\/marcus-flowers-marjorie-greene-military-contractor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by the<em>\u00a0New Republic<\/em> show. Flowers did not dispute the incident and instead defended his attempt to offload Chudinova, saying he &#8220;felt she had a personality disorder that was not previously disclosed.&#8221; In turn, Chudinova accused Flowers of threatening to strike her.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers&#8217;s campaign did not return multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Cocchiarella, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDCocchiarella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter account<\/a> boasts more than 250,000 followers and includes a photo of the activist smiling alongside President Joe Biden, enrolled as a Dartmouth freshman during the 2021-22 school year. While it&#8217;s unclear what specific &#8220;digital consulting&#8221; services he provided Crist, Cocchiarella <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDCocchiarella\/status\/1548835279825518594?s=20&#038;t=9aaZ1JNjpqhD-Fla-K0-Gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly endorsed<\/a> the former governor over fellow DeSantis challenger Nikki Fried (D.) just days after Crist&#8217;s campaign paid him.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=jdcocchiarella%20from%3Amarcus4georgia&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">routinely replies<\/a> to Cocchiarella&#8217;s tweets to solicit campaign contributions. In October 2021, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marcus4Georgia\/status\/1449530789037813761?s=20&#038;t=9aaZ1JNjpqhD-Fla-K0-Gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the young activist &#8220;an outstanding young man.&#8221; In addition to his work with Crist and Flowers, Cocchiarella has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=54kCK82-HbI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborated<\/a> with the Lincoln Project, an anti-Republican super PAC founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/john-weaver-mortgage\/\">disgraced sexual predator<\/a> John Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>Cocchiarella reduced his public presence as allegations against him swirled. A notoriously avid Twitter user, Cocchiarella did not send an original tweet for more than a week after Dartmouth College Democrats confirmed the &#8220;campus-wide allegations,&#8221; instead opting to populate his feed by sharing posts from liberal politicians and journalists. The activist has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MishaFitton\/status\/1552805638639697920?s=20&#038;t=J5Rmsh_ozS0oXq7PgMuAHw\">blocked users<\/a> who raised the allegations in his replies.<\/p>\n<p>Cocchiarella during an Aug. 1 podcast appearance did, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MishaFitton\/status\/1554210972105162754?s=20&#038;t=J5Rmsh_ozS0oXq7PgMuAHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirm his decision<\/a> to transfer from Dartmouth to fellow Ivy League school Columbia. The activist did not discuss why he opted to leave Dartmouth after just one year at the college and is yet to publicly address the allegations leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>Cocchiarella, Dartmouth College Democrats, and Dartmouth&#8217;s Title IX office did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Florida Democrat Charlie Crist hired Jack Cocchiarella after college Dems chapter ousted young activist over troubling allegations  Twitter  Collin Anderson \u2022 August 9, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}