Posted on 11/20/2020 9:23:52 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
WPLG reporter Glenna Milberg approached the South Florida address listed for Alex Rodriguez earlier this week ready to pepper him with questions: Why had the 55-year-old mechanic abruptly decide to run for office? How did he win nearly 3 percent of the vote without even a website? Did he live in Miami at all?
“I’m looking for Alex,” she told a white-haired man who answered the door. “Is he around?”
“Uh, no. He’ll be back tomorrow, though,” the man replied, refusing to say where Rodriguez was, how to reach him, or why a man with no history in politics — a registered Republican until a few months ago — had become an unaffiliated candidate for Florida’s 37th State Senate District.
Days later, Milberg discovered the man at the door had been lying. He was, in fact, Rodriguez, whose more than 6,000 votes may have tipped the election away from a Democratic incumbent in Miami with the same last name.
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How about that - the WP is suddenly interested in questionable voting!
I’m guessing that some of them thought he was the former MLB player. Since Alex Rodriguez the baseball player used steroids to cheat his way to 696 home runs, they probably thought he was the Democrat in the race.
Joe Kennedy found a plumber with the same name as the opponent running against his son, JFK, and he paid the plumber to enter the race. The plumber's first and last names were the same as JFK's opponent, but his middle initial was not.
When people voted for JFK's opponent, some were confused by the two people having the same first and last names in the race and enough of them voted for the plumber by mistake. That trick split the vote enough that JFK won his election to Congress.
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