It began as a single phone call from a concerned Florida voter whose party affiliation was switched to Republican w/o her consent. Now there are AG investigations in 3 Fl counties, reports from a 4th, & concerns the entire state may be impacted. My interview of @SenatorTaddeo: 1/
2/ Based on reports of voters having their party affiliation switched to Republican without their consent, formal investigations are underway in 3 Florida counties: Miami-Dade, Duval, & Hillsborough. There have been similar reports in Orange, but as yet no formal investigaion.
3/ On 3/7/22, @SenatorTaddeo and many of her Senate and House colleagues in Florida sent a letter to @DeptJustice requesting a federal investigation. She has not yet heard back, but is requesting a meeting in DC to discuss the data she provided & to push for that investigation.
4/ An organization called Florida First (funded by America First) has been implicated in the unauthorized switching of voters' party affiliations from Democrat (or Independent) to Republican. There is an Arizona First and a Texas First that are somehow related. 😵
5/ Switching voters' party affiliations w/o their consent will prevent those voters from voting in their party primaries. It could also help mask election fraud involving vote tally manipulation to favor the GOP.
6/ @SenatorTaddeo is running for governor, so a scheme to prevent Democratic voters from voting in the primary could impact her own campaign. This is especially true given that she is the first Latina to run 4 governor in FL, & the scheme seems to have targeted Hispanic voters.
7/ " I [also] think that what [Republicans] want is to show all these numbers especially w/ minorities, especially w/ hispanics bc they want to be able to say, 'Oh but look they all registered republican why wld they vote for the Democrat? This has to be fraud.'" - @SenatorTaddeo
8/ @SenatorTaddeo suspects that the schemers' top goal was to ensure that "organizations who come into Florida & help out w/ voter registration," & "get out the vote" & "boots on the ground that they walked away & said, 'Forget it, FL is lost.'" They almost got away with it.
9/ You can listen to the entire interview here. My thanks to @SenatorTaddeo for her important work & for speaking with me. Pls share this info bc even the relatively small amount of media attention thus far (thanks to @CNN) helped unearth more cases. TY.
Many thousands of Florida voters may be impacted by this fraudulent Republican scheme. In Miami-Dade alone, there is an investigation of 6K voter registrations that were suspiciously switched from Democrat (or NPA) to Republican in November & December 2020. - @Annette_Taddeo 10/
Yes! Kudos to @GlennaWPLG for her crucial on the ground reporting and investigative efforts in this matter! 11/
This fraudulent scheme has been going on for "as long as maybe 2 years" & warrants "federal investigation bc this is much bigger than what even I thought & the more that we dig the more we find & I'm very very concerned that this is a concerted effort..." - @Annette_Taddeo 13/
If you are a Florida voter, please double check your voter registration! If you notice that your party affiliation has been changed without your permission, Plz contact @Annette_Taddeo’s office at 850-487-5040. TY. #flapol 15/
To stay up to date on this issue, please follow Senator Taddeo at @Annette_Taddeo. Going forward, that’s the account she’ll mostly use to discuss this voter registration fraud story. The other one is her official side/senate business account. Thanks again! #flapol 18/
19/ So this appears to be the same organization involved in the voter registration fraud discovered in March 2020. 👀
20/ I hadn’t thought of this & don’t specialize in polling, but hope others can chime in. Might shifting thousands and thousands of voter registrations change polling results? It seems like it would. 👀 @Earth_Media_@JonathanSimon14
Oh look. The Center for Baptist Leadership founded by Trump/Heritage alum William Wolfe follows SBC Pastor Jonathan Elwing who has been arrested for possessing images of himself molesting a 2 year old. Wolfe recently said that the SBC has no sex abuse crisis. FFS. 1/
😳 Florida SBC Pastor Jonathan Elwing Charged With Child Molestation. Elwing recently belonged to the Conservative Baptist Network co-founded by Florida-based Christian investor Rod Martin, a protege of the late Paul Pressler who allegedly molested underage boys. 1/ churchleaders.com/news/488534-14…
2/ “Rod Martin … is a co-founder … of the Conservative Baptist Network, two-term member of the executive committee of the Florida Baptist Convention State Board of Missions, and a former officer of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination.” rodmartin.org/about-rod/
3/ “Conservative Baptist Network Report Downplays SBC Sex Abuse Crisis, Raises Alarms About CRT, Feminism, LGBTQ+” churchleaders.com/news/442997-co…
Trump snapped and claimed that the 2020 election had been rigged against him, even though he & his Republican allies in Congress had blocked election-security bills before the election and Trump had out-performed the polls during the election. #TrumpIsAWhiner 1/
OK School Superintendent Ryan Walters is no lone wolf. He’s part of the Christian Right’s well oiled machine, as shown by his speaking gig at the Family Research Council’s (FRC) summit, where he referred to church-state separation as a myth. FRC targets schools nationwide. 1/
2/ Here’s the link. As you can see, Sonja Shaw spoke on the same Family Research panel as Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters. Shaw is the President of the Board of Education of The Chino Valley Unified School District in California. This is a national effort.
3/ The Family Research Council’s president, Tony Perkins, is the immediate past president of the Council for National Policy, the Christian Right’s umbrella organization.
Pastor Robert Morris’s victim says that Morris digitally penetrated her. The sex abuse began when she was 12 & continued for 4-5 years, but Morris blamed her (his victim) as being flirtatious & having a jezebel spirit, per former Gateway Executive Pastor Steve LeBlanc. h/t @hippoinroom 1/