Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
GOP Chair and Senate Candidate Arrested on Multiple Counts of Election Fraud
Seminole County Republican Party Chair Ben Paris, political consultant Eric Foglesong, and former independent candidate Jestine Iannotti have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of election fraud related to the 2020 election in Senate District 9.
Iannotti had run in the SD 9 election as an independent candidate in a contest that critics had alleged was a "ghost candidate" maneuver intended to draw votes away from Democratic candidate Patricia Sigman, to aid the election of Republican Jason Brodeur, who won.
Twelve total charges came down through indictments sought by the State Attorney for Florida's 18th Judicial Circuit after a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation. The investigation began in July 2021 after JC 18 State Attorney Phil Archer requested FDLE look into the election.
Jestine Iannotti, one of three "ghost candidates" who ran as independents for Florida Senate seats in 2020, has been arrested on several criminal charges, alongside a political consultant involved in launching her campaign, and Seminole County's Republican Party chairman.
Iannotti faces six charges including the commission of a false or fraudulent act, accepting excessive contributions from a single contributor, perjury, false reporting, and accepting a contribution in the name of another.
Foglesong, a longtime Central Florida political operative, faces five counts: making two or more contributions through or in the name of another, the commission of a false or fraudulent act, unlawful use of a communication device, excessive contributions, and false reporting.
This is separate from the other Republican ghost candidate case still in progress in Miami that I posted about earlier in this thread.
Two MI GOP Governor Candidates Ineligible for Fraud
Former Detroit police Chief James Craig and businessman Perry Johnson, two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, did not submit enough valid petition signatures to make the ballot, according to findings from the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
The bureau found that Craig's campaign had turned in 11,113 invalid signatures, including 9,879 signatures from "fraudulent petition circulators."
As for Johnson, the bureau identified 9,393 invalid signatures, rendering "him ineligible for the ballot."
Three more Republican candidates for Michigan governor were disqualified by a state canvassing board on Thursday for submitting nominating petitions that officials said had contained thousands of forged signatures. The decision sent the race, in a key battleground state, into chaos and dealt a serious blow to the party's plans to challenge Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic incumbent.
The five candidates, half of the party's field, were denied a spot on the August 2nd primary ballot by the Board of State Canvassers, including James Craig, a former Detroit police chief, and Perry Johnson, a wealthy businessman. Both had widely been viewed as favorites before election officials this week rejected thousands of signatures, finding that the names had been forged and were collected by fraudulent petition circulators.
An indicted Republican official in Colorado claimed in a new statement over the weekend that Rep Lauren Boebert, a congresswoman with a history of embracing conspiracy theories, “encouraged” her to take the actions that led to her being criminally charged. -snip
TX County Warns of GOP Operatives Scamming Black Voters
The Harris County Elections Office is warning voters about a new scam targeting private voter information. At least one county commissioner said a group with links to the Republican party approached residents living in Sunnyside in order to get their information.
Neighbors in the Sunnyside community were taken aback when they learned a group under the name of "Texas Election Network" were impersonating election workers and going door-to-door in an attempt to obtain private voter information and signed affidavits.
The men had badges and a clipboard, and officials said they went door-to-door trying to get voters' information. The Harris County Republican Party said it is their understanding the group is a registered non-profit of citizen volunteers.
Lost, Not Stolen really ought to be the final word on this, but no... Once you've dug in as crazy, there really isn't anything anyone can do to convince you to stop being crazy I'm afraid.
Prosecutors have subpoenaed records related to a $600,000 money transfer between dark money organizations tied to an ongoing Miami-Dade criminal case surrounding "ghost candidates" in the 2020 election, according to court records unveiled Friday.
Data Targeting also paid former Republican state Senator Frank Artiles, who is facing several charges related to the no-party candidate who ran in District 37, for campaign-related work.
Data Targeting paid Artiles $90,000 over six months to work on "state legislative campaign assignments to include certain Senate Districts in Miami-Dade County," according to records released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.
"Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene encouraged supporters to get out to the polls during the November midterms and went one step further during a video address to advocate that they exercise their right to vote “one, two, three times”." -snip
For the record and I know all the Left leaning people here already know this, but you're only allowed to vote once.
A Wisconsin man who bragged on Facebook and even took to the airwaves in the state's largest media market to vet his grievances about absentee ballot procedures in the Badger State has been charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors.
Harry E. Wait, 68, of Union Grove, Wisconsin is accused of two counts of election fraud and two counts of unauthorized use of an individual's personal identifying information, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a press release on Thursday evening.
Wait told Milwaukee ABC affiliate WISN-TV just three days after the alleged crimes that he ordered ballots in the names of Racine Mayor Cory Mason and Wisconsin State Representative Robin Vos of Racine County.
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