leftist cry about the success of a governing red state and applaud the failure of blues states..
Either they are dumb as hell or just mentally retarded..
So which is it..???
@El Cubano you spoke too soon. The latest update from the Herald has Frank Artiles, a former Florida state senator and lobbyist in the news again. This time records show a web of payments involving players in a probe into a sham senate candidate. A young political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state senator Artiles made an offer to a recent college graduate last September: he would pay her $1,500 to chair a political committee and in exchange, she wouldnt have to do anything. At the time 25 yr old Alex DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, discovered she was pregnant and $$$$ became an issue.
So she took up Alex Alvarado on his offer. And he put her name down as the chairperson of the group The Truth, a dark, money funded political committee that spent $180,000 on political mail advertisements promoting sham candidates in key 2020 state senate elections---2 in Miami--Dade and 1 in central Florida.
When reporters started showing up and asking her questions about the committee, Alvarado gave DeFilippis $2,500 more for her "inconvenience." She said "I was hired for $1,500. I thought that was the deal. And then he was generous enough to give me more for the stress it was causing me," DeFilippis said in a sworn statement she gave to Miami prosecutors in December.
DeFilippis, who said she connected with Alvarado thru her High School friend, testified she didnt know anything about the scheme to influence the 2020 election. But her statements, along with other documents released this past Friday (o7/23/21), provide new details into the breadth of criminal investigation of Artiles and his longtime acquaintance , Alex Pedro Rodriguez.
Prosecutors say Rodriguez was recruited by Artiles and paid some $44,000 to change his party affiliation from Republican to No Party to qualify on the ballot and attempt to sway the outcome of the Miami-Dade Senate District 37 election. GOP candidate Ileana Garcia won by 32 votes. Rodriguez, who shared the same surname as the Democratic incumbent, received more than 6,000 votes.
Between June 15th and November 15 2020, Artiles was under contract to work for veteran Republican political operative Pat Bainter for $15,000 a month, court documents show. Bainter paid Artiles $90,000 and reimbursed him for travel expenses, a courier service and $4,000 for "research", according to those documents.
That line item, "Research" prompted Bainter's CFO at Data Targeting, Inc., Lance Gardner to question its legitamacy, according to emails released Friday. "Is this good? There is a line item "Research", Gardner asked. Bainter replied: "it is." In a later email he adds, "you and I will talk."
In a email from Artiles on September 14, the former law maker made it clear Bainter is calling the shots. Artiles wrote: "attached is the September invoice for your review and approval. I am standing by for Orders. Please remember I have 6 PCs for independents if needed. "the reference to "PCs" most likely refers to Political Committees.
Artiles signed a contract with Bainter on June 09, 2020. The next day Artiles met with Rodriguez at Artiles Palmetto residence to fill out campaign forms, according to investigators who noted on a arrest affidavit that Rodriguez had no prior knowledge as to what forms needed to be completed to qualify for a candidate for elected office and relied on Artiles' instructions.
You call this success????? Its the far & forever reaching tentacles of the PARTY OF NO, the party that advocates voter suppression, voter fraud. The party that insists voting laws must change. Just the tip of the iceberg.