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Fried files ethics complaints against DeSantis’ state staff over political fundraising
Yahoo ^ | June 21, 2023 | Lawrence Mower

Posted on 06/21/2023 4:18:23 PM PDT by backpacker_c

The leader of the Florida Democratic Party filed ethics complaints against three top Gov. Ron DeSantis staffers who asked lobbyists and lawmakers for donations to the governor’s presidential campaign.

The fundraising was first reported by NBC News, which wrote that DeSantis officials were asking lobbyists to donate to the governor’s White House campaign.

DeSantis and his committees received another complaint on Wednesday, filed by the advocacy group End Citizens United with the Federal Election Commission. The complaint alleges that the transfer of $82.5 million from DeSantis’ former state committee to a super PAC backing his presidential campaign was prohibited under federal law.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: desantis; ethics
Additional details and complaints are in the article.

Since the florida legislature has been bending over backwards to help desantis, since they are all one big swamp, I doubt the complaints will go anywhere

Just shows how corrupt everything is with desantis.

1 posted on 06/21/2023 4:18:23 PM PDT by backpacker_c
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What do fried files taste like?


2 posted on 06/21/2023 4:20:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: backpacker_c

Nikki Fried is the corrupt head of the Florida Democratic Party. You’re taking anything she says seriously?


3 posted on 06/21/2023 4:21:10 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: backpacker_c
This isn't about DeSantis, it's about Nikki Fried.

She was the lone Democrat who won a statewide office, Agriculture Commissioner, in 2018. Ironically, it's the Ag Commissioner who oversees Florida's gun permits, so Fried tried to change the gun laws in the state, requiring fingerprints and reducing the term of concealed carry permits.

She also changed the practice of the Ag Commissioner's signature on gasoline pump certification stickers to use her photograph instead. Her critics said she used taxpayer funds to expand her political exposure by putting her picture on all the gas pumps.

She ran for Governor and lost to Charlie Crist in the Democrat primary.

Now she's the leader of the state Democrat Party, who's sole function is to obstruct anything DeSantis.

-PJ

4 posted on 06/21/2023 4:28:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too; TallahasseeConservative

Nope.

The use of office staff in the governor’s office to solicit donations was reported by NBC.

The transfer of campaign funds, which is a FEC and mccain-feingold violation, I’ve reported on several times.

Why deny that it happened?


5 posted on 06/21/2023 4:38:54 PM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: backpacker_c

Wake me when he offers to sell nuclear secrets to China in exchange for cash.


6 posted on 06/21/2023 4:40:28 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: backpacker_c

“Just shows how corrupt everything is with desantis.”

Pretty sad when people here side with democrat lies over great conservatives ...


7 posted on 06/21/2023 4:42:12 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: backpacker_c
You have reached a new low as a Trump cultist .
Peddling a Hard Core Leftist Dem usual tactics to Smear Desantis .
You know nothing of FL politics just Desantis smears.
This shows has low you will Groveling on this site.
You are terrified of Desantis .
You act worse than the DU crowd here .

Attacking a Fellow Goper .

Fried is a nasty Former Pot Lobbyist and AG Commissioner who won her election in 2018 thanks to Broward county voter fraud machine that Desantis shut down in 2019 . She abused her power to try to strip people of there right to a fire arm . Here you peddle her lies and scams against a fellow Republican.

You are an example why the Gop is so divided now and why the
Dems are cheering on Trump cultists.

8 posted on 06/21/2023 4:44:32 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: backpacker_c

“I’ve reported on several times.

Why deny that it happened?”

Not even Fried has any proof!


“Fried’s complaints say that if the reporting “is true,” “


9 posted on 06/21/2023 4:45:45 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: backpacker_c

Look everyone, the creepy Trump cultist now sides with Democrats.

Well, these creepy Trump cultists are now in favor of an assault weapons ban, child grooming and federally protected abortion.....so it is not a surprise.


10 posted on 06/21/2023 4:46:20 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Prior to her running, I remember not seeing her face on the pumps. I don’t recall when they started to disappear. Her picture was the first thing I noticed (besides her miraculously being “elected” as the on demon in the administration). I was saddened, but still happy, because I still had my CWP with Charles Bronson’s name on it.


11 posted on 06/21/2023 4:46:55 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: ncalburt; backpacker_c

“Peddling a Hard Core Leftist Dem usual tactics to Smear Desantis .”

Pays double.


12 posted on 06/21/2023 4:47:08 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: backpacker_c
I didn't deny anything. I said that this is really about elevating Nikki Fried, the lone Democrat former statewide office-holder.

Isn't it usually some quasi-party-affiliated 501(c)(3) non-profit group (like CREW) that files these charges, like when MAGA, Inc. filed ethics charges against DeSantis over running while in office? Don't the parties act like they think it's "unseemly" to be seen directly accusing their opponents of crimes, so they get front-groups to do it for them?

So why is Fried's state DNC doing this one directly?

-PJ

13 posted on 06/21/2023 4:49:55 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Olog-hai

Well, chicken of course. 🙂


14 posted on 06/21/2023 6:44:54 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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