HD 32 Democrat Ryan Morales: Russians hacked my campaign
House District 32 Democratic candidate Ryan Morales said Friday morning his campaign website and a couple of other servers he runs were hacked overnight and early evidence suggests the hacker may have been from Russia.
Morales could only speculate why hackers, and potentially Russian hackers, might target a longshot Democratic candidate in an obscure Florida House District race. But the message he comes away with is that political hacking is going to new levels, local races.
Morales is taking on Republican state Rep. Anthony Sabatini in a district that covers much of Lake County. Republicans have an eight-point voter registration advantage and Democrats haven’t come even that close in more than a decade.
“We know there was supposed to be federal government funding for this very purpose, to stop this. Nothing has been done. The President hasn’t done anything about this. And it’s going to continue to happen,” Morales said. “I probably caught somebody’s attention, and they wanted to come down on me. But this won’t be the last.”
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