Posted on 09/22/2020 8:04:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, an effort aimed at boosting turnout for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The money will go to fund a program organized by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to pay the fines, fees and restitution costs for former prisoners who are already registered to vote in Florida but barred by law from participating in the election because of those outstanding debts.
Bloomberg, who has committed at least $100 million to electing Biden in the state, raised the money from individuals and foundations over the last week, his advisers said. He saw the donations as a more cost-effective way of adding votes to the Democratic column than investing money to persuade voters who already have the right to vote, a Bloomberg memo said.
The Bloomberg effort, which will be pooled with about $5 million already raised by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, is narrowly focused only on Black and Hispanic voters who are already registered to vote and whose debts are less than $1,500.
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He hates this country while pretending to hate Donald Trump.
Trump has to win overstate by 100,000 votes or more or the democrats will steal it...
That is it. Paying for votes.
Isn’t this outright bribery?
Sounds illegal — paying for individual votes.
No interference in politics or legal issues from the outsiders except those who legally can. Bailing out crooks is a major no-no.
Dumb move on his part back fire big time.
Walking around money.
Paying for a Vote, isn’t that illegal?
It should be illegal to pay someone’s fine for them. Just like you can’t borrow money to make a down payment on a house.
He’s a pimp. A cheap pimp.
BLACK CRIMINALS PROP UP THE POWER OF WHITE LIBERAL ‘ELITES’...
If Bloomberg had helped criminals in 2018 Florida could have elected Gillum - a drug addicted S&M cocaine addict - into gay sex with white body builder...(https://www.foxnews.com/us/photos-of-andrew-gillum-hotel-room-released-by-police-show-stained-bedsheets-spilled-pills-report)
In short - Florida cities would have been part of the looting and burning horrors this past year. Bloomberg is a
George Soros wannabee.
I think that this is likely against the law. It’s basically paying someone to vote.
He sure is investing a heck of a lot of money in that state to turn it over to Biden. I can only hope that if the Democrats come to full power, they would take all his money first.
Think of how many people with REAL problems he could help with $16 million. The homeless, people with huge medical bills, families of fallen soldiers and cops, people who were burned out of their home, etc. etc.
Shameful.
I’m pretty sure that targeting this help racially is a violation of law, and probably of election law as well. If they paid off ALL felons with less than $1500 of fines, they would probably pass muster. But by applying other tests, they are essentially paying off people who they assume will vote a certain way.
Buying votes. Literally.
You’d have to establish a direct quid pro quo between Bloomberg and the ex-cons whose debts he pays. You’d have to show that he agreed to pay for them if they voted for Biden/Democrats.
Source?
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