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Politics' addiction to unlimited sums of money from unknown donors must end | Editorial

The Florida Legislature this year prohibited out-of-state contributions greater than $3,000 to the petition-gathering stages of constitutional initiative campaigns. It's as unconstitutional as when they tried something similar last year, and once again, they have of course allowed themselves to continue taking in unlimited donations.

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Politics' addiction to unlimited sums of money from unknown donors must end | Editorial - South Florida Sun Sentinel

The Florida Legislature this year prohibited out-of-state contributions greater than $3,000 to the petition-gathering stages of constitutional initiative campaigns. It's as unconstitutional as when they tried something similar last year, and once again, they have of course allowed themselves to continue taking in unlimited donations.

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Artiles helped a candidate in another 2020 Senate race, records show

Artiles helped a candidate in another 2020 Senate race, records show
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Donations to Fried, Crist campaigns linked to dark money group in election fraud case

Donations to Fried, Crist campaigns linked to dark money group in election fraud case
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Artiles worked with GOP firm Data Targeting on Senate races


Artiles worked with GOP firm Data Targeting on Senate races
The firm agreed to pay Artiles, a former legislator, $90,000 to work on “state legislative campaign assignments.”
 
 
Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
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Long before Frank Artiles, a Miami legislator turned lobbyist, became the focus of a public corruption investigation, he got a call from one of Florida’s most influential Republican consultants on a Monday afternoon in May 2020.
The conversation lasted five minutes.
Three weeks later, on June 9, they jumped on the phone two more times. By the end of the day, Pat Bainter, who runs the prominent GOP research firm Data Targeting Inc., and Artiles, who owns Miami firm Atlas Consultants, had a deal.

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Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate


Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Senate candidate
Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
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A sign points the way to the Miami office of State Senator Frank Artiles, who resigned from the Florida Senate on April 21, 2017.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank 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 would have to do nothing.

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Probe into sham Senate candidacy reveals financial links


Updated July 24
Probe into sham Senate candidacy reveals financial links
Documents released late Friday provide new details about a former Florida state senator's alleged attempt to sway an election.
By Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen KlasTribune News Service
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank 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 would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”

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Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Florida state Senate candidate


Records show web of payments involving players in probe into sham Florida state Senate candidate
Ana Ceballos and Mary Ellen Klas, Miami Herald
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Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, Florida, on March 18, 2021.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank 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 would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”

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Records provide more details in sham 2020 Florida candidate probe


Records provide more details in sham 2020 Florida candidate probe
Records show a Palm Harbor woman was paid to chair a political committee.
 
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TALLAHASSEE — A young Republican political operative who is also the subject of a public corruption investigation into former Republican state Sen. Frank 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 would have to do nothing.
At the time, 25-year-old Hailey DeFilippis, of Palm Harbor, had just found out she was pregnant and was “freaking out about money.”
So, she took up Alex Alvarado on the offer. And put her name down as chair of 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 — two in Miami-Dade and one in Central Florida.

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