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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 11:51 AM Apr 2021

Florida Elections Commission general counsel arrested on child porn charges

Source: Tallahassee Democrat

The general counsel for the Florida Elections Commission was arrested Wednesday on charges of possession of child pornography, according to court records.

Eric M. Lipman, 59, was charged with 11 counts of the crime. He was taken to the Leon County Detention Facility.

Tim Vaccaro, executive director of the Elections Commission, confirmed Lipman's arrest in an email to the Tallahassee Democrat.

"The commission is fully cooperating with law enforcement’s investigation," Vaccaro said. "The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending further information.


Read more: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2021/04/08/tallahassee-man-arrested-child-porn-charges-florida-election-commission-lawyer-attorney/7137060002/
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Florida Elections Commission general counsel arrested on child porn charges (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2021 OP
Hoo boy. Florida is a mess soothsayer Apr 2021 #1
Where do they find these people? dianaredwing Apr 2021 #38
Florida PJMcK Apr 2021 #62
There must something on the water over there Grimelle Apr 2021 #66
No wonder they MAGAts were so all in on child porn when HRC war running. It was a huge diversion joetheman Apr 2021 #59
Let me guess- James48 Apr 2021 #2
Found this on voterrecods . com multigraincracker Apr 2021 #3
AND DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #21
I wonder if investigations of these pedophiles wnylib Apr 2021 #33
I literally hate to even think DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #42
I think that some border agents or their supervisors wnylib Apr 2021 #52
I have Rebl2 Apr 2021 #63
A friend of Joel Greenberg & Matt Gaetz? calimary Apr 2021 #27
GOP... Grand Old Projectionists IrishAfricanAmerican Apr 2021 #4
That's a new one. GOP ... aggiesal Apr 2021 #14
GOP... Greedy Old Pedophiles SledDriver Apr 2021 #15
IrishAfricanAmerican.... Upthevibe Apr 2021 #22
👍🏼 IrishAfricanAmerican Apr 2021 #24
Anything a Republican spews DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #26
I'm guessing one-half of those 70M realize that these are pure lies. But they're happy with "owning erronis Apr 2021 #29
A number of rich and uber rich people I know DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #34
Exactly! Mind-boggling how accurate that KPN Apr 2021 #46
Porn but not trafficking Sanity Claws Apr 2021 #5
Or maybe related. Traffickers can produce porn. wnylib Apr 2021 #35
He is registered in Florida with the Republican Party on 6/17/1998. LiberalFighter Apr 2021 #6
Q says it's just an isolated incident unrelated to any conspiracy, pizza or George Soros. Marcuse Apr 2021 #7
Yes, another outlier. pandr32 Apr 2021 #11
I guess 'Q' is really 'R'. n/t iscooterliberally Apr 2021 #36
My guess is DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #43
And/Or, Steve Bannon... IthinkThereforeIAM Apr 2021 #67
Well, Trumpers, here's another child porn arrest that you've BEEN predicting! oldsoftie Apr 2021 #8
Let's see what kind of family values bs this perv gonna pull. Denvermosaic Apr 2021 #9
What is it with these sick bastards? Overwhemingly Repukes. Lock 'em up. Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #10
Authoritarian types are aroused by power relationships, and pedophilia is a power trip to them. Midnight Writer Apr 2021 #16
How does the power translate to predation and/or arousal. Elections board??? Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #44
This guy is also a volunteer in their local Soccer League FakeNoose Apr 2021 #41
Yeah I see a pattern. JHC. What part of the human brain finds this predation uncontrollable? Evolve Dammit Apr 2021 #48
Wonder if Lipman & Gaetz are running around buddies? KS Toronado Apr 2021 #12
Wonder if Greenberg is just rolling on everyone about anything obamanut2012 Apr 2021 #13
No! Don't tell me a Republican election official is corrupt and morally degraded! Martin68 Apr 2021 #17
Check the contacts in his cell phone. I'll bet Matt Gaetz is there. George II Apr 2021 #18
Without a doubt. IrishAfricanAmerican Apr 2021 #19
So let me get this straight. Grammy23 Apr 2021 #20
Maybe his god told him it was OK. Or that he is now finding beJesus. Or trumpf will resurrect and erronis Apr 2021 #31
He will say DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #47
Grammy23.... Upthevibe Apr 2021 #58
Which is why I think they could make the argument Grammy23 Apr 2021 #61
Grammy23 Upthevibe Apr 2021 #65
Republicans are sociopaths I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2021 #69
And he apparently lives with his parents (or they live with him) csziggy Apr 2021 #60
Wonder if "Q" members realize they've been looking at the wrong party. Vinca Apr 2021 #23
Redirection. Get their followers to focus wnylib Apr 2021 #37
Precisely DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #50
So in the future, we might try a different response. wnylib Apr 2021 #54
That is exactly what Hillary did in her campaign. DENVERPOPS Apr 2021 #55
But don't just call them on their bs. wnylib Apr 2021 #56
If the Dems turned the tables on them and accused them of the same FakeNoose Apr 2021 #64
This, and Gaetz' sidekick Greenberg is pleading guilty. Not looking good for Gaetz. George II Apr 2021 #25
Already on Twitter: George II Apr 2021 #28
Keep checking that computer bluestarone Apr 2021 #30
I'm beginning to think QANON was right about everything wcollar Apr 2021 #32
Deliberate redirection to hide what they are doing? wnylib Apr 2021 #39
Anyone else think it is more than an accident that Ghislaine Maxwell released her 'what she knew flying_wahini Apr 2021 #40
Florida Ocean level is on the rise , Florida republican's drowning in the scum they created monkeyman1 Apr 2021 #45
We need to compile a list of all the Republicans accused of pedophilia Sucha NastyWoman Apr 2021 #49
I sometimes wonder why the rest of the US puts up with FL. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #51
GQP RETIREMENT HOME . monkeyman1 Apr 2021 #68
GOP Gross Old Perverts nt IronLionZion Apr 2021 #53
Is he affiliated with Greasy Gaetz? Dopers_Greed Apr 2021 #57
 

joetheman

(1,450 posts)
59. No wonder they MAGAts were so all in on child porn when HRC war running. It was a huge diversion
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:06 PM
Apr 2021

and their projection. FL is a cesspool. A lot of nasty-minded, hateful people with too much money and power over others. I have relatives there. They don't have much money...more like working poor. But they are nasty-minded and hateful of others. Solid Trumpians.

multigraincracker

(32,527 posts)
3. Found this on voterrecods . com
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 11:59 AM
Apr 2021

Eric M Lipman's Florida Voter Registration
Tallahassee, Florida
Eric M Lipman (age 59) is listed at 4385 Benchmark Trce Tallahassee, Fl 32317 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to vote in Leon County, Florida.

Part of the Cabol?

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
21. AND
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 01:40 PM
Apr 2021

did they find him operating out of the basement of some pizzeria down there???????????

For some reason, many of those being discovered for sexual perversion and weirdness, in both the past and present, seems to be predominately RepubliCONs....

I think we have only seen the tip of the iceberg on this shit...........why in the world, they ever release these peds back into society is beyond me.....There is no cure, no rehabilitation. They should lock them away for life.........

I would love to send what's her name, (Ghislaine??) down to gitmo for some "intense" interrogation on naming names.......
Her lifetime deviate sex mate, once the truth was revealed about him, didn't last long. You have to know that a huge number of influential men and Politicians had him snuffed...........

Heidi Fleiss? never revealed her black book. I'm sure she used it as insurance, telling someone that she gave it to, that if she was killed they should send it to the New York Times...........

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
33. I wonder if investigations of these pedophiles
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:11 PM
Apr 2021

would lead us to the missing children who were kidnapped from their parents by ICE at the southern border.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
42. I literally hate to even think
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:34 PM
Apr 2021

where those thousands of children ended up. And the fact that the RepubliCONs kept absolutely no paperwork what so ever, points directly to your suspicions, or may I say, far worse........

My favorite revenge fantasy is that these assholes are all exposed, they are convicted and sent to a real prison. Not a camp cupcake with protective custody, but a regular prison, and put into the general population.........

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
52. I think that some border agents or their supervisors
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 03:10 PM
Apr 2021

need to be investigated for possible connections to pedophile rings or known GQP pedophiles. Also for connections to black market adoptions.

I have become involved with some immigrant rights people and will try to push for such investigstions, but don't know how how much they can do. We need to get some political backing for looking into this.

Rebl2

(13,303 posts)
63. I have
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:55 PM
Apr 2021

wondered about this too. Where are those children that ICE kidnapped. Who were they turned over to.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
26. Anything a Republican spews
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 01:50 PM
Apr 2021

from their mouth is:

#1) a flagrant lie

#2) pure hypocrisy

#3) 180 degrees from the truth or reality.

It's that simple..........

AND 70 million voters don't even begin to realize that............

erronis

(14,949 posts)
29. I'm guessing one-half of those 70M realize that these are pure lies. But they're happy with "owning
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:05 PM
Apr 2021

the libs" - to their own disaster.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
34. A number of rich and uber rich people I know
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:14 PM
Apr 2021

Openly laugh about the fact that they know the RepubliCONs are thoroughly corrupt and totally despicable,

but in the same breath, they state that they will still vote and donate to RepubliCONs as long as that party keeps sending more and more money their way, either thru tax cuts, or cutting regulations that pave the way for increasing their money......

They could give a rats ass about fucking the "common" people.........

KPN

(15,587 posts)
46. Exactly! Mind-boggling how accurate that
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:41 PM
Apr 2021

simple phrase is. Everything they accuse anyone of is exactly what they themselves are doing. And it worked as a diversionary tactic for quite some time — like a decade or so — but America is becoming “woke” to their duplicity.

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
35. Or maybe related. Traffickers can produce porn.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:17 PM
Apr 2021

Having connections with porn producers can give access to porn.

Not saying that's what is happening in this case. I'm only saying that it's possible for sex traffickers, porn producers, and porn consumers to have connections with each other.

pandr32

(11,447 posts)
11. Yes, another outlier.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 12:35 PM
Apr 2021

He'll join all the others that are "unrelated to any conspiracy, pizza or George Soros" and not a Democrat.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
43. My guess is
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:39 PM
Apr 2021

that it is Cheney and Rumsfeld, sitting in a small room, making this ludicrous shit up and spewing it to their followers.
Both absolutely having the time of their lives, seeing how far fetched a story they can make up, without their followers questioning word one.......

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,072 posts)
67. And/Or, Steve Bannon...
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 05:56 PM
Apr 2021

... feeding the, "posters", the crap to spew. Bannon is all about turning government into chaos, "destroy the administrative state".

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
8. Well, Trumpers, here's another child porn arrest that you've BEEN predicting!
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 12:27 PM
Apr 2021

Just not WHO you thought it would be!

Midnight Writer

(21,546 posts)
16. Authoritarian types are aroused by power relationships, and pedophilia is a power trip to them.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 01:10 PM
Apr 2021

In other words, they like to prey on the helpless.

FakeNoose

(32,345 posts)
41. This guy is also a volunteer in their local Soccer League
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:32 PM
Apr 2021

... that enrolls boys and girls 4 to 17. Before working in the Florida Elections Commission this guy was legal counsel at FL Dept. of Children and Families. Do you see a pattern here?

Grammy23

(5,808 posts)
20. So let me get this straight.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 01:31 PM
Apr 2021

He is an attorney working as general counsel for the FL Elections Commission. He is 59 years old so not a naive school boy.

So why is a guy like him in possession of child porn?? Does he not understand by his education ALONE that it is risky to possess such things?? Is he not smart enough to avoid accumulating such items whether in digital format or print materials?

I suppose he can claim his addiction to such materials overwhelmed what even common sense would tell you to do. But geeze, Louise. If this guy gets convicted, his life as he knows it is over. So there’s that.....maybe he’ll get some counseling after he is behind bars. But truthfully, I doubt that’ll happen. And he’ll find a whole bunch of his inmates want to meet him. 😳

erronis

(14,949 posts)
31. Maybe his god told him it was OK. Or that he is now finding beJesus. Or trumpf will resurrect and
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:08 PM
Apr 2021

pardon him. Or he's just a brain fart inside a skull.

Repuglicons do attract the best!!!

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
47. He will say
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:42 PM
Apr 2021

that Hunter Biden planted it on his computer...........and some Republican appointed judge will agree and dismiss charges.......

Upthevibe

(7,879 posts)
58. Grammy23....
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:00 PM
Apr 2021

Why do ANY of these guys do this!!!????

Intelligence/IQ seems to have nothing to do with it. I mean Anthony Weiner sending d**k pictures having already gotten caught doing it and then he goes and does it again!?!?

Grammy23

(5,808 posts)
61. Which is why I think they could make the argument
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:33 PM
Apr 2021

that it’s an addiction or compulsion. Anyone who has struggled with addiction will tell you how difficult it is to fight it.

However, knowing what’s at stake, one might think they’d do anything to try to control the urge. I don’t have that kind of issue, so I honestly don’t know. Maybe a qualified professional could weigh in on this. If the addiction is established in your young, formative years, is it possible to overcome it?? Or are you doomed to have the addiction. Perhaps learning to not act on it might prove more successful??

Upthevibe

(7,879 posts)
65. Grammy23
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 05:23 PM
Apr 2021

I think I get what you're saying. 

It's such a complicated issue: Is Pedophilia an addiction, a compulsion, a disease? And it's so taboo that I don't know if a lot of studies have been done (from a clinician's perspective) but I very well may be wrong..... I really don't know.
 
If it were classified under the realm of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), there's medication that has been somewhat effective for some conditions:

Clomipramine (Anafranil), Fluoxetine (Prozac), Paroxetine, Paxil, Pexeva, Sertraline (Zoloft).

However pedophiles are seemingly an entire different breed....

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
60. And he apparently lives with his parents (or they live with him)
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:16 PM
Apr 2021

At the address above, there are five people with the same surname. Two are in their 80s, two in their 20s, and Eric is 59. No woman his age in the household.

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
37. Redirection. Get their followers to focus
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:22 PM
Apr 2021

on the other party so they don't notice what their own party is doing.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
50. Precisely
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:46 PM
Apr 2021

The republiCONs for decades have been using this technique of creating a diversion.
When they are doing something or about to do something they accuse the Dems of doing it.
The Dems are constantly on the defense, with no time for getting anything done.

The RepubliCONs have been successful at this forever, and the Dems still fall for it every single time......

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
54. So in the future, we might try a different response.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 03:15 PM
Apr 2021

Instead of going on the defensive, we should turn the tables and ask, "So is that what you're doing now? You always accuse us of your own crimes." When they try to question or dispute that, throw every instance back at them.

DENVERPOPS

(8,678 posts)
55. That is exactly what Hillary did in her campaign.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 03:18 PM
Apr 2021

They would throw out a lie and she had a crew that worked all night making an ad to call them on their bullshit the next morning.

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
56. But don't just call them on their bs.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 03:27 PM
Apr 2021

Accuse them. They say that Dems run a pedophile ring. Ask, "Where do you keep your sex slaves, since you always project your crimes onto others?"

FakeNoose

(32,345 posts)
64. If the Dems turned the tables on them and accused them of the same
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 04:59 PM
Apr 2021

... the Repukes would simply take it as silent agreement that we really ARE guilty of their stupid accusations. Because that's exactly what THEY do, so they assume everybody else does it.

I'm becoming convinced that their (Repukes') behavior is just one more sign of mental illness. It cannot be explained by rational actions or reasonable thinking of any kind.

George II

(67,782 posts)
28. Already on Twitter:
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:02 PM
Apr 2021
If Republicans genuinely cared about protecting children’s bodies, they would leave Trans kids alone and stop electing pedophiles.



flying_wahini

(6,527 posts)
40. Anyone else think it is more than an accident that Ghislaine Maxwell released her 'what she knew
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:26 PM
Apr 2021

And when she knew it’ informant info last week and Matt and Greenberg and now this guy are
Going down? Someone should warn the others......

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/29/ghislaine-maxwell-new-charges-jeffrey-epstein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,725 posts)
49. We need to compile a list of all the Republicans accused of pedophilia
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:45 PM
Apr 2021

And molesting/having sex with/soliciting minors (since pedophilia technically involves pre-pubescent children.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
51. I sometimes wonder why the rest of the US puts up with FL.
Thu Apr 8, 2021, 02:58 PM
Apr 2021

But then, I remember there are good people there, as well...and other states can be just as bad, sometimes.

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