Disgraced Republican lawmaker planted no-party candidate in key Senate race

Frank Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race. Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend.
miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
“The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election.”
“Artiles resigned from the Senate in disgrace in 2017” for “the hiring of a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model with no political experience as “consultants” using funds from his political committee” & “called two Black lawmakers a racist slur in a Tallahassee bar”
“He is now a lobbyist and has submitted an application to fill a vacancy on the Miami-Dade County Commission, one of the most powerful elected roles in the state’s most populous county.”
Artiles is registered to represent five clients including Freytech, a Miami company that wants $8 million in the state budget to remove toxic blue-green algae from Florida waters, but local laws prohibit former public officers from lobbying for 6 years sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commen…

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