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https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/MIAMI Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?
Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three such candidates in three Florida Senate district races, two of them in Miami Dade County, were shill candidates whose presence in the races were meant to syphon votes from Democratic candidates.
Comparisons of the no-party candidates' public campaign records show similarities and connections that suggest they are all linked by funding from the same dark money donors, and part of an elaborate scheme to upset voting patterns.
In one of those races, District 37, a recount is underway because the spread between the Democratic and Republican candidates is only 31 votes. The third party candidate received more than 6300 votes.
That third party candidate is Alexis Rodriguez, who has the same last name as the Democratic incumbent senator Jose Javier Rodriguez. The Republican challenger is Ileana Garcia.
Alexis Rodriguez falsified his address on his campaign filing form last June. The couple who now live at the Palmetto Bay address say they have been repeatedly harassed since then by people looking for Rodriguez, who hadnt lived there in five years.
A search of campaign documents filed by Rodriguez led to a money trail and campaign finance connections with other no-party third candidates in Florida Senate District 9 in Central Florida, and District 39 in Miami-Dade.
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Plenty more at link = ReTHUGs are thieves
onethatcares
(16,169 posts)I saw a similar post y day and wondered myself why but it's very similar to changing your party affiliation once you're elected.
Florida, it's a very f...ed up place.
malaise
(269,038 posts)They are shameless
onethatcares
(16,169 posts)then we have a gov that wants to kill anyone that speaks out in protest of what's going on.
I used to think Florida was the ballbag of the country, after living here and watching all the cheapass folks move in from
texas/cali/indiana etc, I realize it's become that piece of tp that sticks to your butt.
I remember Walkin Lawton Chiles and trust me, it was better here then.
Sorry folks not a native but a transplant that cares deeply about my adopted home state.
magicarpet
(14,154 posts)... and then render it totally dysfunctional. The only way we can win is cheat,... cheat,... and then cheat some more. Treachery and treason is our game.
onethatcares
(16,169 posts)defunding the government so it doesn't work for "We the People". Then they turn around and say,"See, taxpayer funded government services don't work,let's privatize them and save those taxpayer dollars"
Then they give their buds a bunch of taxpayer funded contracts which they fuck up entirely which costs us even more and when the contract is up, THEY GET A NO BID REPEAT OF CONTRACT AT A LARGER TAXPAYER COST.
Floriduh is the petri dish of American grift politics.
Blue Owl
(50,401 posts)to find new ways, every day, to HATE THE GOP EVEN MORE!
WTF is wrong with these people? Their greed knows no bounds and they just continue to sink lower and lower to retain power...
malaise
(269,038 posts)I can't believe this shit although Killa Cun tried it with Kanye
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)malaise
(269,038 posts)They should assume ReTHUGs are cheating