Posted on 11/01/2017 11:33:59 AM PDT by Brilliant
MIAMI — Democratic State Rep. Daisy Baez is expected to resign her Florida House seat Wednesday and agree to plead guilty to a perjury charges in a criminal case over whether she lawfully lived in her Coral Gables-area district, according to her colleagues and a draft plea agreement obtained by POLITICO Florida.
In return for pleading guilty to the misdemeanor perjury charge and leaving office, Baez will pay a $1,000 fine, take an ethics course and serve one year of probation, during which time she can’t run for public office, the plea agreement says.
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. Baez was was unavailable for comment. She was returning on a flight to Miami on Tuesday from the Dominican Republic, where her mother had passed away. Fellow Democrats said her attorney, Ben Kuehne, had informed them of the plea on Tuesday.
And many were angry with Baez because, with her gone, Democrats could have just 40 members in the 120-member chamber in the midst of the lawmaking session that begins in January. That would give the GOP a supermajority advantage ...
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Amazing they even mention her part affiliation. Let alone put it in the headline.
Party affiliation.
No relative of a certain Joan Baez, I suppose.
And another one’s gone and another one’s gone and another Rat bites the dust.
And another one’s gone and another one’s gone and another Rat bites the dust.
Its not “Domcratic State Rep”... it’s DEMOCRAT State Rep.
A slap on the wrist. If it was a republican, they’d get hard time.
Few of them are called out on it.
When they are, even fewer admit it - so this is special!
Similar politics, methinks.
Democrats are like fish in a barrel when it comes to living out of their district in Florida.A few years back a Democrat Congressman who lived full time in DC sent his kids to school there was caught using his parents 55 and older condo address as his official address. Of course he was allowed to resign with no charges. Democrats are never charged with mail fraud.
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