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Future Sarasota County Sheriff posed with QAnon conspiracy follower


While campaigning to become Sarasota County’s next sheriff last year, Kurt Hoffman, at the time Sheriff’s Office second in command, slipped into a merchandise booth for a photograph.
Hoffman stood out in his hunter green uniform next to “We are Q” T-shirts on display, the Donald Trump red, white and blue sneakers on the table, and the stack of books nearby that urged prospective readers to “Question the Narrative.” 
Hoffman’s arm, draped over a woman’s shoulder, rested just inches away from her T-shirt that bore the “We are QAnon” insignia – a phrase referring to the right-wing fringe movement that promotes baseless conspiracy theories about government secrets and sinister plots by a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals. ....

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