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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Ghost' Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping
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lotta criming in Gaetzville https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ghost-candidate-ran-in-race-with-gaetz-buddy-until-indictments-started-dropping via @TPM
Ghost Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping
Ghost Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping
talkingpointsmemo.com
12:05 PM · Apr 27, 2021
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
lotta criming in Gaetzville https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ghost-candidate-ran-in-race-with-gaetz-buddy-until-indictments-started-dropping via @TPM
Ghost Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping
Ghost Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping
talkingpointsmemo.com
12:05 PM · Apr 27, 2021
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ghost-candidate-ran-in-race-with-gaetz-buddy-until-indictments-started-dropping
When Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Chris Anderson looked at tax collector Joel Greenbergs qualifying form and saw that he had declared bitcoin, he wasnt surprised.
Joel is the only person that I know that knows anything about bitcoin, Anderson told TPM.
But for Anderson, it wasnt Greenbergs crypto holdings that proved to be a headache in the 2020 elections so much as another phantasmic presence: that of so-called ghost candidates, candidates who lack party affiliation, dont run substantial campaigns, but exist solely to siphon votes away from others in the race.
What Anderson encountered comes as part of what may be a pattern of ghost candidates running in Seminole County, at least two of whom appeared in races in which allies of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were running. Greenberg, Gaetzs longtime buddy and potential federal cooperating witness, appears to have run in a race with a ghost candidate before a federal grand jury indicted him in June 2020.
And in that case, the apparent ghost candidate dropped out within days of charges being filed against Greenberg.
The Orlando Sentinel reported on the race, in which Daniel L. Day ran as an unaffiliated candidate in a race with Greenberg, other Republicans, and a Democrat named Lynn Moira Dictor. The Orlando Weekly first reported suspicions that Day was a sham candidate meant to siphon votes away from Dictor.
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'Ghost' Candidate Ran In Race With Gaetz Buddy Until Indictments Started Dropping (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)1. We have this in a city counsel race right now.
It is a popular R tactic.
StClone
(11,676 posts)2. Ha Ha Gaetzilla
Set to destroy things, like T-Wrecks, these dopes put forth a sham public persona behind which is boundless criminality. Gaetz and Trump have captured the soul of the R Party, which they are now set to drive it into the ground.