Posted on 09/22/2022 7:04:43 PM PDT by CodeToad
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended another public official from office, this time Jose Angel Martinez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner-District 11, after he was arrested Aug. 30.
Martinez was arrested “for felony charges of unlawful compensation for official behavior … and conspiracy to commit unlawful compensation,” in violation of state statutes, which are second and third degree felonies, the governor’s office said.
DeSantis’s communications director issued a statement saying, “it is in the best interest of the residents of Miami-Dade County that Martinez be immediately suspended from the public office that he holds” and that his replacement would be appointed in the coming weeks.
Martinez first held his nonpartisan District 11 seat in 2000. He ran for Congress in 2014 as a Republican and lost. He then ran again for county commissioner in 2016 and won. He won reelection in 2020.
According to his arrest warrant, Martinez allegedly accepted a total of $15,000 in payments from a supermarket and property owner who was fighting a county ordinance and subsequent fines for being in violation, NBC News Miami reported. The owner allegedly made the payments while also lobbying the commissioners to amend the ordinance.
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Do DeSantis!
*ping*
Good on the Governor.👏👏👏
Love this guy!!!
“This proves it’s a principled thing, since the moron he suspended ran as a Republican for office at one time.”
To paraphrase Nate Diaz: I’m not surprised ___ ___.
I guess Jose Angel is no angel...
It’s hard to pass up ‘easy money’ when you have no honor or ethics.
Gotta love this man.
DeSantis is a freaking rock star. (I feel like I’m cheating.)
Yes, Ron... Keep at it!! Love him so so much...
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