Florida judge resigns from vote-counting board after donations to Trump campaign uncovered
Source: USA Today/AP
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A Florida judge has resigned from Duval Countys vote-counting board after findings that he donated repeatedly to President Trumps re-election campaign and other Republican efforts were uncovered.
Duval County senior Judge Brent Shore, whose home displayed several signs supporting Trump, had served as chairman of the canvassing board because of his role as a county judge.
Yet Florida judicial rules bar judges from political donations of any kind.
And canvassing board rules bar members from "displaying a candidate's campaign signs."
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/29/judge-brent-shore-florida-duval-county-vote-counting-head-trump-donations/6068234002/
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)samnsara
(17,570 posts)ZZenith
(4,110 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)If that hadn't have been uncovered he'd have taken his right wing bias into the vote counting.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,896 posts)David Fahrenthold Retweeted
BREAKING: The head of Duval County's vote-counting board has donated to Trump 12 times and has six Trump signs up at his home, despite rules barring him from doing so.
Link to tweet
Duval County judge leading vote-counting board donated to Trump 12 times. That's not allowed.
Andrew Pantazi
Florida Times-Union
Published 8:31 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2020 | Updated 11:12 a.m. ET Oct. 29, 2020
The front door of Duval County Canvassing Board Chairman Brent Shore's Atlantic Beach home. Shore, a county judge, donated 12 times to Trump, even though he is prohibited from doing so.
A local judge and head of Duval Countys vote-counting board has donated repeatedly to President Trumps re-election campaign and other Republican efforts, and his home is covered in signs supporting Trump, despite rules requiring judges like him refrain from donations or public support.
Duval County senior Judge Brent Shore has served as chairman of the canvassing board because of his role as a county judge. ... Yet judicial rules bar judges from political donations of any kind. ... And canvassing board rules bar members from "displaying a candidate's campaign signs."
Senior county Judge Brent Shore, who has refused to change rules barring the public from photographing or videotaping vote-counting meetings, first donated $20 in 2016 to Donald Trumps initial campaign for president. He has donated 11 more times since then to Trump for a total of $170, as well as donating $178 in the last two years to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)lamp_shade
(14,796 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)BComplex
(7,982 posts)Asshole that he is.
BumRushDaShow
(127,308 posts)When I saw the earlier story this morning here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142615625 and read the article from the news org (Florida Times-Union) that broke the story, and saw the hemming and hawing, I was like -->
That newspaper updated their story here - https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/29/duval-county-vote-counting-board-member-calls-resignation-chairman-trump/6071984002/
Karma13612
(4,527 posts)Fair judge.
this is great news! Shed light on the corruption. As the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant.