Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money (FL)

[octoberlib]

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 hadn’t lived there in five years.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/

[rzemanfl]

1. When I moved to Florida in 1996 I thought Carl Hiaassen's novels were over the top

fiction, not thinly veiled truth. Silly me.

[octoberlib]

3. This is insane. Now, I've read many reports of GOP strategists picking

people off the street, setting them up in an apartment and financing their campaigns as Green party candidates in swing districts in Ohio and Montana etc. Rick Wilson has written about this. So it's not just a Florida thing.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. tRump and his enablers always accuse opponents for what they are doing themselves.

His accusations of voter fraud should be viewed as a confession.

[SharonClark]

4. Good reporting.

Hope the FL Dems can use it to outlaw this kind of fraud.

[cureautismnow]

5. Florida Democrats need to start playing these stupid games, too.

At least until they make it illegal AND enforce the laws. Fight fire with fire and level the playing field.

[Tech]

6. Has anyone called the voter fraud hotline yet?