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Ex-Florida senator s raided home in bogus candidate probe CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The home of a former Republican state senator in Florida was raided Wednesday by law enforcement officials looking into his support of a bogus candidate in a legislative race. Boxes of material were taken out of the Palmetto Bay home of Frank Artiles, who multiple media reports say has been implicated in a plot to plant a candidate in a Miami-area state Senate race to defeat the Democratic incumbent. That race was won by Republican Ileana Garcia by just 32 votes over Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez in the 2020 election out of about 215,000 votes cast. The alleged sham candidate Alex Rodriguez not the baseball player, but an auto parts dealer ran as a non-party candidate and has the same last name as the Democrat.

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