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A political scandal that has ensnared a former state Senator from South Florida might lead to further investigation in Central Florida. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement plans to review information involving a so-called "ghost" candidate in the 2020 District 9 state Senate race Republican Jason Brodeur won in November 2020. Brodeur, who represents part of Volusia County, narrowly defeated Democrat Patricia Sigman in the race. But a no-party-affiliation candidate, Jestine Iannotti, also ...

Whos behind Grow United PAC, which funded ghost Florida Senate candidates? Its a mystery Mark Harper, The Daytona Beach News-Journal © myfloridahouse.gov Frank Artiles, R-Miami, congratulates Jason Brodeur, R-Sanford, on March 22, 2013, when both were members of the Florida House of Representatives. Artiles is charged in connection with an election fraud case in South Florida, while parallels can be found in Brodeurs election to the Senate last November. An allegedly illegal ...

An allegedly illegal effort to promote a Boca Raton mans sham candidacy for a state Senate seat in South Florida bears resemblance — and apparent connections — to two other shadowy legislative campaigns in the fall. The mysterious source of money — an entity called "Grow United" — paid for mailers in the three races, including Miami-Dade’s Senate District 37. There, former state Sen. Frank Artiles has been indicted on charges he offered money to no-party candidate Alexis "Alex" Rod...

Call it a harmonic convergence. Or simply too good to be true. There are some indications that two scandals roiling Florida politics may actually be connected, tying the federal probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to a slate of sham candidates that cropped up across the state in 2020. Could that possibly be? This may not be the scandal we want, but is it possibly the one we deserve? In one, we have the rapidly emerging degeneracy of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is facing a federal probe into allegat...

A sham candidacy fueled with dark money has 11 Florida members of Congress and fair-elections advocates calling for an investigation into state Sen. Jason Brodeurs 2020 election. Brodeur represents Senate District 9, which covers all of Seminole County plus southwest Volusia County, after having won a three-person race in November 2020. But Brodeurs race carries some of the hallmarks of a South Florida Senate race thats led to the arrests of a former state senator, Frank Artiles, and a thi...

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images In Florida, candidates in several state senate races with no party affiliation (NPA) garnered thousands of votes with little to no campaigning or fundraising. The playbook appears the same across races: A candidate with no political experience registers to run just days before the deadline. Then, political action committees pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into mailers supporting these candidates, often using language that appe...

Backed by dark money, candidates with no party affiliation appear to have changed the outcome of several Florida races insider@insider.com (Jonah Goldman Kay) © Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Poll workers help a voter put their mail-in ballot in an official Miami-Dade County ballot drop box. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images In Florida, candidates in several state senate races with no party affiliation (NPA) garnered thousands of votes with little to no campaigning or fundra...