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Jumps his race from leaning republican all the way over to leaning democrat. he doesn't just give him a squishy shift to a toss-up, he says this guy, who he was essentially predicting to win, he's now predicting to lose. this is a dramatic shift. what is going on here in this race to earn that dramatic shift? >> michael putney with channel 10. >> whoa! we reporters can be unwelcome guests sometimes and today was no exception for our senior political reporter michael putny. michael got splashed with water by the wife of a political candidate who's under investigation by the fbi. >> the woman wh...

Dousing incident was all about and who exactly is in trouble? >> well, i think we could start with congressman rivera. he certainly is in trouble. as well as justin lamar sternad who we are told now is singing to the top of his lungs to the fbi about how david rivera reportedly financed sternad's campaign. >> i'm sorry to bother you i'm michael putney with channel 10 -- >> and when mrs. sterned opened the door, i got drenched. so as you can see, we are all wet, and justin lamar sternad is not talking, if he is home. his wife threw the water on me. we do know however that mr. sternad is talking...

Obviously getting water thrown all over him as he tries to figure out what congressman david rivera is in trouble with the fbi for this, too. i mean congressman david rivera has already been under investigation by the fbi, the irs, the miami dade police department's public corruption un it, the miami dade state attorney's office and the florida department of law enforcement over financial disclosure issues and allegations that' abused the powers of his office. back when he was just a state legislator. now that david rivera has moved up in the world and is a member of congress, now the investig...

Only a little over 100 bucks in the bank. but he still somehow managed to put out really professionally done, professionally microtargeted, high-end, well-researched campaign mailers. lots of different ones to the tune of thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in campaign spending. thousands and thousands of dollars in cash, it turns out. in crisp hundred dollar bills. stuffed into envelopes. where was all that money coming from? here's how the miami herald puts it, during one call congressman david rivera directed an employee to walk outside, check the office mailbox for an envelope...

Democratic candidacy that he really wanted to run against instead of joe garcia. and now the fake candidate, who is cooperating with the fbi, is facing a felony indictment. and his wife is throwing pitchers of water at venerable florida political reporters. and david rivera's seat in congress is jumping all the way from leans republican to leans democrat without a stop at toss-up in the middle. and in the course of all the reporting on this incredibly sordid story from the miami new times and the local miami tv stations and the miami herald, we learn the one detail of this story that will stic...