A former Florida Republican state senator paid more than $40,000 over the course of a year to a sham candidate meant to siphon votes away from a Democratic politician in a state race last year, police say.
Follow the money and there won’t be a GOP in two years time.
I am so glad about this. When I read about this scam last Fall – in the midst of all the Republican accusations amounting nothing – it made me sick to my stomach.
faces felony campaign finance charges
Music to my ears.
Only the best candidates?
The best candidates money can buy.
But mail in ballots!
Whenever there’s some kind of election fraud, the perp is almost inevitably a Republican.
The GQP is always claiming “false flag” scenarios whenever right-wingers get caught (e.g., most recently: Antifa leading the Capitol insurrection).
And, given their penchant for projecting (what is it with conservatives and their projection reflex?), I’ve long thought that their false-flagging calls are also a big tell: “Projection going on here.”
I know I’m biased, and I haven’t done a study or anything, but it seems to me that false flags are hoisted by right-wingers far more frequently (if not nearly entirely) than by left-wingers. I mean, there are some celebrated “under-cover sting operations” in which journalists or law enforcement pretend to be right-wing radicals for infiltration purposes, but, aside from obvious Borat-style satire, do left-wingers ever run for office as Republicans, just to mess things up? False flagging seems to be a right-wing specialty.
Ah, finally. I was waiting for this story.
Doesn’t this invalidate Garcia’s win?
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Is the the 'election fraud’ that conservatives have been screaming about? Oh no, that’s just when black people and liberals vote.
I look forward to this never being covered by right-wing media and lets face it, probably most of the MSM will ignore it too.
Of course he drives an Escalade.
It’s all fun and games until you’re indicted for fraud…
In the ’60s, while politics in general was as deadly serious as it is today, there was also a lighter strain. Friend of mine was a popular (because effective) campaign manager and consultant. He pulled a few pranks on Republican candidates, but they were obvious pranks, not the kind of thuggery and fraud that Republicans need.
It remains unclear whether the thousands of dollars that Artiles gave Rodriguez are his own, or whether an unknown third party funded Artiles’s efforts, as local media reports have speculated.
What a tangled web republicans weave when first they practice to deceive.
Sorry, Sir Walter Scott. But if the phrase fits…
Yeah, they’re doing it.
Curious, does the state initiate a new election, adjust the outcome accordingly, or ?
M. Paul