An allegedly illegal effort to promote a Boca Raton man s sham candidacy for a state Senate seat in South Florida bears resemblance and apparent connections to two other shadowy legislative campaigns in the fall.
The mysterious source of money an entity called Grow United paid for mailers in the three races, including Miami-Dade’s Senate District 37.
There, former state Sen. Frank Artiles has been indicted on charges he offered money to no-party candidate Alexis Alex Rodriguez to run in the race, an action that is illegal under Florida law. Rodriguez, who is from Boca Raton, is also facing charges over the alleged funding of a shill campaign.
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A sham candidacy fueled with dark money has 11 Florida members of Congress and fair-elections advocates calling for an investigation into state Sen. Jason Brodeur s 2020 election.
Brodeur represents Senate District 9, which covers all of Seminole County plus southwest Volusia County, after having won a three-person race in November 2020.
But Brodeur s race carries some of the hallmarks of a South Florida Senate race that s led to the arrests of a former state senator, Frank Artiles, and a third-party candidate who told investigators Artiles paid him to run as a spoiler.
Brodeur, a Republican, defeated Democrat Patricia Sigman with with 50.3% of the vote, while a no-party affiliation candidate named Jestine Iannotti finished a distant third.
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