Jose Javier Rodriguez has made positive to level this out to media shops, saying this thriller Alex Rodriguez, a 55-year-old mechanic who all of a sudden threw his title into the ring after which by no means campaigned, clearly syphoned away votes. Javier Rodriguez has conceded his Miami-Dade County seat, however known as for an investigation into these shenanigans “In an effort to obtain that, I imagine this election requires a full investigation in order that those that could have violated the legislation are held to account and in order that such techniques usually are not utilized in future elections.”
Whether or not this shadowy third candidate value Javier Rodriguez his seat is laborious to know (see not laborious to know), however contemplating that the person who continues to refuse showing in public—this can be a supposed candidate for state senate—ran on a platform of local weather change and fixing well being care, it feels fairly clear who they had been interesting to. CNN reports {that a} “mysterious firm known as Proclivity, Inc. contributed $550,000 to a pair of newly fashioned political motion committees within the state.” These motion committees, arrange one month earlier than Election Day, obtained this cash the day after coming into existence.
The 2 Florida PACs that obtained the Proclivity contributions had been each registered on the identical date and time — October 2 at 11:34 am, in accordance with Florida Division of Elections paperwork.
At some point later, one of many PACs — Our Florida PC — acquired $370,000 from Proclivity; the opposite — The Fact PC — acquired $180,000.
These PACs additionally despatched cash to comparable spoiler-style candidates all through Florida. Unusual, eh? The 2 PACs had been chaired by younger ladies that nobody has heard of earlier than, and seem like related to a younger Republican political strategist named Alex Alvarado. That’s peculiar. In keeping with CNN, Alvarado’s enterprise was paid $267,000 for political work.
Aspect observe: CNN has not been in a position to contact or get an interview out of any of the individuals concerned on this sketchy state of affairs. The Washington Post additionally had a tough time discovering the mysterious Alex Rodriguez.*
When Miami WPLG Local 10 reporter Glenna Milberg tried to seek out Alex Rodriguez on the handle he wrote down “when he certified to run,” she discovered that he didn’t dwell there and had by no means lived there, and nobody appeared to know who he was. She then went to his administrative center, the place a person answered as Alex’s “enterprise accomplice,” saying that Rodriguez wouldn’t be again till the next day. Seems that man was Alex Rodriguez. Peculiar. Milberg then tracked down a third-party candidate like Rodriguez and he too was tremendous doubtful. You possibly can watch that report under. CNN says that Rodriguez was charged with two counts of “felony grand theft,” to which he plead responsible to in 2012.
The Miami Herald studies that prosecutors have opened an investigation into Alex Rodriguez, and have additionally had a little bit of a time finding him as they’ve some questions. Alex Rodriguez is just not the one “ghost candidate” to seem in shut races on the ballots in Florida.
In State Senate District 9, Democrat Patricia Sigman misplaced to a Republican by simply 2 % of the vote. Nobody ever noticed the supposedly liberal, third candidate.
“She had no web site. She by no means participated in any of the debates or boards, by no means confirmed up wherever. She wasn’t even registered to vote till she filed,” Sigman stated.
WPLG’s Milberg then discovered an identical candidate, Celso D. Alfonso, who additionally ran. The similarities between these magical candidates are “putting” says the Washington Post:
Each males had been registered as Republicans in 2018, and each certified for this 12 months’s election on the identical day, with hand-delivered checks time-stamped inside minutes of each other, according to the Herald. Their listed e mail addresses are almost similar, too.
Alfonso denied having adverts, although he did and so they had been despatched out by the identical mysterious PAC that despatched out Rodriguez’s fliers. When offered by this reality, Alfonso stated he paid for the fliers himself. When the reporter talked about to him that that’s not what the filings say, Alfonso simply stated “No. It’s not now. I’m sorry, now it’s over,” seemingly trying to plead each ignorance and the concept that for the reason that election is over that was all there was to say.
And as for Proclivity, Inc.? It appears it was registered in Delaware in 2019 by a man no one can get in touch with named Richard Alexander. The one paper path appears to result in a mailbox in an Atlanta strip mall.
The excellent news is that President-elect Joe Biden has lastly been in a position to transfer forward with the essential work of transitioning into the White Home. There may be loads of work to be performed and the present lame duck president has been a corrupt lame duck president for 4 years already. The present public well being and financial disaster are signs of his management. The unhealthy information is that the Trump administration has all the time been merely essentially the most caustic and coarse variations of what the Republican Get together stands for, and as crass and egregious as Trump could appear, he’s simply saying what Republican officers and operatives actually imagine.
Watch the native report.
*Not the baseball participant.
