Thread by @jennycohn1

Are Rs better strategists or better cheaters?

“GOP strategist Patrick Bainter operates in shadows”

The Florida GOP has “dominated statewide politics for the past two decades, despite Ds having the advantage in the # of registered voters in Florida.” 1/ jacksonville.com/news/20190119/…

2/ Bainter was involved in Florida’s 2012 gerrymandering scandal.

3/ “‘Bainter … acted in concert with the Legislature to produce individual districts & an overall redistricting map favorable to the Republican Party…, in violation of the Florida Constitution redistricting standards,’ an opinion by Florida Supreme Court…said.”

4/ Bainter’s company, Data Targeting, Inc. was involved in three Florida senate races w/ suspect NPA candidates. h/t @gal_suburban

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1406403830049280000

5/ More re: DataTargeting, Inc. from 2013. orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-go…

6/ This is why I bring it up. 👇

https://twitter.com/maryellenklas/status/1403445174584422401

7/ “Data Targeting Inc., run by longtime operative Pat Bainter, was served a subpoena related to the case of the no-party candidate who ran in [Florida] Senate District 37.” - 6/11/21 tampabay.com/news/florida-p…

8/ “Gainesville political firm [Data Targeting, Inc.] dragged into South Florida election fraud case “ - 6/16/21 gainesville.com/story/news/pol…

9/ So far, only one “ghost candidate” state race in Florida has resulted in criminal charges. But as posted by @gal_suburban, there are at least two more worth reviewing.

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https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1406403764307759105

11/ And Data Targeting, Inc. was involved with all three of those Florida state races.

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1406403830049280000

12/ AIF (run by Tom Feeney, Jeb Bush’s former running mate) may be involved with all three suspect NPA cases too.

13/ Clinton Curtis, a former Republican computer programmer for a NASA contractor once testified to Congress that Tom Feeney had asked him to design a vote flipping program for South Florida, although this cld not be corroborated. bradblog.com/?p=3630

14/ @TheBradBlog bradblog.com/?page_id=3980

15/ More on Feeney. bradblog.com/?p=3501

16/ Seminole county, Florida (Joel Greenberg’s former turf) is so corrupt, lazy, or inept that it won’t even investigate the suspicious NPA senate candidate situation there. So @orlandosentinel is doing it for them. Thread about that. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1407895…

17/ It seems that Matt Gaetz may have been involved in the suspicious NPA candidate situation in Florida too. One of the NPA candidates promptly fled (I mean moved) to Sweden. 😳

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1396182647861387275

18/ We already know that Joel Greenberg committed election crimes against his Republican opponent in the tax assessor’s race in Seminole county. 👇

https://twitter.com/beutebrian/status/1409317680579072009

19/ What we don’t know is just how many Florida races have been rigged by the GOP and in how many ways. Thank God @orlandosentinel is on the case.

20/ Oh look. There was a suspicious NPA candidate in Joel Greenberg’s own race for reelection as the tax collector of Seminole county. FFS. Thread.

https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1398193631144648706

21/ I highly recommend following @orlandosentinel for more on this ever-widening scandal regarding third-party candidates planted by Florida’s GOP in state (and perhaps county) races. Support local journalism. TY.

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https://twitter.com/ionsancho1/status/1408855416809865220

23/ It’s not just Florida. The GOP apparently uses fake independent candidates to steal elections in Minnesota too.

Pro-marijuana candidate Adam Weeks reportedly said GOP recruited him to ‘pull votes away’ from Democrats” 10/29/20 h/t @debinmpls cbsnews.com/news/adam-week…

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https://twitter.com/gal_suburban/status/1409537212413362191

.@threadreaderapp Plz unroll