Posted on 10/18/2023 9:47:12 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a restaurant. The activist, 72-year-old Steve Alembik, died. The woman, wounded in the back and arm, survived when she ran into the restaurant bleeding and was rushed to the hospital. The wounded victim was believed to be his wife. Over the past 20 years, Alembik, gave more than $200,000 in political contributions, mainly to Republicans, including thousands of dollars to both DeSantis and Donald Trump. The founder of a Boca Raton digital marketing company, the Democrat-turned-Republican earned notoriety in 2018 by referring to former President Barack Obama as a “f******* Muslim n*****” in a post on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter.
The PAC returned $11,000 but the campaign said $4,000 given separately had been spent in the primary and could not be refunded. DeSantis, running in the general election against former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, had ignited a racial controversy a month earlier by urging voters not to “monkey this up,” referring to the possibility of electing Gillum, who is Black.
The DeSantis campaign team denounced the tweet and announced it would take no more money from Alembik in the future. But his campaigns have continued to accept Alembik contributions. The governor’s re-election campaign and a state political committee supporting that campaign, Friends of Ron DeSantis, together took in more than $5,000 from Alembik in 2021 and 2022, according to state records. Alembik, who describes DeSantis as one of his “close friends”
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Oh lovely. A violent domestic disturbance goes really really bad, and all the enemedia can do is tie it to Trump and DeSantis.
Would you have expected anything less…?
They are really desperate.
Was his wife a liberal?
I notice they just had to add and extra jab to try to smear X by dragging it into it, even though neither he nor X was around then or had anything to do with the controversy. That Twitter later became X has nothing to do with this guy’s social media posts. Also note there’s no mention of the person who actually founded Twitter, or who was running it at the time.
So can I assume we will learn about the political affiliation of all the muder/sucide perpetrators from this point forward?
I mean, this must be the new standard for reporting such things?
Unless, there some sort of agenda, or something...
I’m a Miamian. For better or worse his political activism was the only reason people (like me) knew him down here.
If he’d just committed suicide I’d say rest in peace but trying to kill another is contemptible. Back in ‘86 one of my good fri8ends lost her sister to a murder-suicide. The funeral was the day of the Challenger disaster. It was the grimmest funeral I’ve ever attended.
On hating murder-suicide: I always find myself thinking: maybe someone so mentally fried could once in a while reverse the order.
when is the impeachment trial against Trump for this incident gonna happen? The MSM sure has him now /s
Ben Wieder and Sarah Blaskey got all that information in what, 24 hours? How much have they found out about Brandon’s chicom bribes?
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