DO ABOUT IT. WE WILL ASK THEM WHEN WE COME >> BY NOW THE EVIDENCE IS
OVERWHELMING THAT AT LEAST THREE
FLORIDA SENATE RACES ON THE
BALLOT LAST MONTH WERE TAINTED
BY CANDIDATES WHO RAN AS
INDEPENDENTS BUT WHOSE
INTENTIONS WERE NOT TO WIN BUT
MANIPULATE THE VOTE.
>> AND THE INVESTIGATION INTO
WHO MASTER MINDED AND FUNDED
THOSE SHILS INCLUDES FRANK
ARTELIS WHO IS A FORMER STATE
SENATOR WHO RESIGNED IN DES
FLAYS-- DISGRACE IN 2017 AND IS
NOW ASKING TO BE A PINTED TO THE
MIAMI DADE COMIKS.
THE PEOPLE IN THE POSITION TO
STOP POLITICAL MANIPULATION, OUR
CURRENT STATE
LAWICKER-- LAWMAKERS AND TWO ARE
WITH US, ANNETTE TADEJO
REPRESENTING KENDALL AND
SOUTHWEST MIAMI DADE AND CHIP
LAMARCA REPUBLICAN REPRESENTING
BROWARD COASTAL COMMUNITIES FROM
HOLLYWOOD NORTH TO THE COUNTY
LINE.
WELCOME TO YOU BOTH, GREAT TO
SEE YOU.
>> HOW ARE YOU.
>> ANNETTE, COULD I ENCOURAGE
YOU FOR THIS CONVERSATION,
UNLESS YOU ARE AROUND A LOT OF
OTHER PEOPLE, TO TAKE YOUR MASK
OFF.
I DON’T KNOW THAT IT IS IN
VIOLATION OF ANY-- WELL, ARE YOU
NOT.
>> I’M NOT.
>> NOW I SEE, OKAY, SORRY.
>> OLD EYES.
>> ANYWAY, HERE WE HAVE THE
INFORMATION FAIRLY, I THINK, IN
A BRILLIANT PIECE OF REPORTING
IN THE "MIAMI HERALD," ALSO BY
MY COLLEAGUE GLENNA MILL BERG
THAT THE-- MILBERG THE THAT THE
ELECTION IN DISTRICT 27 WAS
BOGUS AND MANIPULATION, THIS
CANDIDATE ALEX RODRIGUEZ WAS
RECRUITED TO COME IN, ANNETTE,
YOU KNOW THE DISTRICT VERY WELL.
YOU REPRESENT DISTRICT 40 RIGHT
NEXT DOOR.
WHAT IF ANYTHING IS THE
LEGISLATURE GOING TO DO ABOUT
THIS?
>> WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD
ABSOLUTELY FIX THIS PROBLEM.
OBVIOUSLY ANYONE WHO WANTS TO
RUN CAN RUN BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE
TIRED OF IS NOT JUST THE FACT
THAT WE HAVE CERTAIN OPERATIVES
THAT ACTUALLY RECRUIT CANDIDATES
AND AS GLENNA MILBERG SO WELL
INVESTIGATED, THEY SWITCHED FROM
REPUBLICANS TO INDEPENDENTS THE
DAY BEFORE THEY FILED.
ALL OF THEM FILING ON THE SAME
DAY WITH THE SAME KIND OF
INFORMATION, THE SAME-- IT
REALLY WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THERE
IS SOME KIND OF CAHOOTS GOING ON
BEHIND THESE CANDIDATES.
BUT WE AS A LEGISLATURE SHOULD
ABSOLUTELY TAKE OUT THE DARK
MONEY AND AND THE PACS AND WE
NEED TO FIX IT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW
OUR LAWS HAVE NO TEETH.
I WILL GIVE YOU A PERFECT
EXAMPLE.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SITUATION
WHERE PACS CAN OPEN UP ONE DAY
LIKE A MONTH BEFORE AN ELECTION,
GET MONEY FROM SOME COMPANY LIKE
IN THIS INSTANCE A COMPANY IN
ATLANTA OUT OF A PO BOX.
AND THEN THEY TURN AROUND AND
CLOSE DOWN AFTER THE ELECTION IS
OVER.
WE NEED TO PUT TEETH BEHIND THAT
SO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO
THAT.
THEY-- HE KNOWS WE DIDN’T REPORT
EVERYTHING.
WE SAY WHERE WE GOT OUR MONEY
FROM.
WE SHOULDN’T HAVE HIDDEN MONEY
IN POLITICS.
>> REPRESENTATIVE LAMARCA, I’M
REALLY INTERESTED IN HEARING
FROM YOU ON THIS.
WE’VE ALL KNOWN EACH OTHER A
LONG TIME.
I’M GOING TO JUST PUT THIS OUT
ON THE LINE.
THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE.
THIS, IN THIS PARTICULAR RACE,
THIS WAS PRETTY HE GREEJUS AND
JUST, WE FOWNGD IT.
AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON
BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTION.
>> DEMOCRATS HAS PULLED THIS
STUNT AS WELL AS REPUBLICANS.
WE DON’T WANT TO PRETEND TO BE
SANCTIMONIOUS THAT IT IS ONLY
REPUBLICANS WHO DID IT.
BUT SHIP LAMARCA, GIVE US YOUR
REACTION, WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN?
>> ACTUALLY, CHIP, ASK-- MY
QUESTION WAS GOING TO BEK AND
FORGIVE ME.
MY QUESTION WAS GOING TO BE, AS
A REPUBLICAN, THERE HAS NOT BEEN
A BILL FILED YET ABOUT THIS.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE, THAT IS
THE QUESTION?
>> WELL, I AGREE WITH SNORP
TADEJO THE OUTRAGE IS IN THIS
DARK MONEY AND POLITICAL
COMMITTEES THAT TRIED TO TAKE
OUT REPRESENTATIVE LUPIS, MYSELF
AND EIGHT OTHER REPRESENTATIVES
FROM A FEDERAL PAC THAT IS
CHAIRED AND STAFFED BY PEOPLE
LIKE TED DOACH AND ERIC HOLDER.
BIG MONEY FROM MR. BLOOMBERG, SO
I AGREE WITH ON THE DARK MONEY.
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THIS
PARTICULAR CASE, HAVING BEEN A
PARTY CHAIR AND I BELIEVE
SENATOR TADEJO WAS AS WELL, THE
EXACT OPSZ OF THE MIAMI DADE
ISSUE IS WHAT HAPPENED IN
BROWARD.
CLEARLY THEY ARE CLOSED
ELECTIONS WITH SHIL CANDIDATES
FOR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
WE DON’T GET TO VOTE FOR OUR
SHERIFF IN COUNTY WIDE
CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS.
SO FROM A STANDPOINT OF WHAT
HAPPENED HERE, LOOK, I DON’T
CONDONE ANYONE BREAKING THE LAW
BUT THE REALITY IS, IF SOMEBODY
DID SOMETHING WRONG, THEY SHOULD
GO THROUGH THE PROSESSION AND IF
THEY BROKE THE LAW THEY SHOULD
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN THIS CASE
WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO STEPPED
FORWARD AND HELD THEMSELVES
ACCOUNT ABLE AND TODAY IT WAS
ME.
SO FROM A STANDPOINT OF.
>> WAIT, WHO WAS THAT, WHO SAID
IT WAS ME.
>> YOU JUST MENTIONED FORMER
SENATOR ARTILI GLRNTION.
>> TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT,
DID HE NOT STEP TOWARD AT ALL
PUBLICLY.
THE "MIAMI HERALD" SOURCED AN
AMAZING BAR CONVERSATION WHERE
HE TOOK CREDIT FOR IT PRIVATELY
TO SOMEONE AT THE BAR.
WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN ALEX
RODRIGUEZ SHARING WITH FRANK
ARTILLES HIS PROG AND BECOMING A
CANDIDATE.
SO PUBLICLY THOUGH HE HAS NOD
ADD-- NOT ADMITTED TO ANYTHING.
>> OKAY, SO TO THAT POINT, THE
PROCESS WILL PLAY ITSELF OUT.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE
FLORIDA ELECTIONS COMMISSION
WILL WORK THROUGH IT.
I DON’T SEE THAT-- I DON’T SEE
IF-- IF THEY BROKE THE LAW THEY
WILL BE PUNISHED.
I DON’T THINK THERE IS ANYTHING
PHYSICALLY TO FIX HERE FSM WE
ARE TALKING ABOUT JJR VERSUS
THIS NPA.
MIAMI DADE HAS A UNIQUE SYSTEM
WHERE YOU NOT ONLY DE FINE
YOURSELF BY YOUR FIRST LAST
NAME, WHATEVER IS ON THE BALLOT
BUT YOU ALSO PUNCH A NUMBER.
SO I MEAN, IT IS OUR JOB AS
CANDIDATES TO YOU KNOW, SET
OURSELVES ASIDE FROM OR
DIFFERENTLY FROM ANOTHER
CANDIDATE.
I LOOKED BACK A FEW YEARS AGO.
THERE WAS A CHRIS SMITH VERSUS
CHRIS SMITHMIER IN BROWARD
COUNTY, NOBODY WAS FOOLED, CHRIS
SMITH WON.
>> THESE KINDS OF SHENANIGANSES
HAVE GONE ON.
AND LET MAY POINT OUT THAT JJR
IS HO SEZ JAFFIER RODRIGUEZ WHO
WAS THE STATE SENATOR AND WAS A
DEMOCRAT.
ANNETTE, LET ME ASK YOU, GLENNA
HAS POSSED THIS QUESTION AS
WELL.
CURRENT STATE LAW SAYS THAT
SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BE A
CANDIDATE WHO IS RENG STERRED AS
A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, IF YOU
CHANGE YOUR PARTY, YOU’VE GOT TO
WAIT A YEAR BEFORE YOU CAN OFFER
YOURSELF AS A CANDIDATE FOR
PUBLIC OFFICE.
BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT AT
ALL IF YOU CHANGE FROM
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT TO NPA
AND THEN YOU CAN RUN.
THAT IS WHAT THIS GUY ALEX
RODRIGUEZ DID WHY DOESN’T THE
LEGISLATURE LOOK AT THAT.
>> WE SHOULD.
AND CAN I TELL YOU, I JUST GOT
APPOINTEDS THE VICE CHAIR OF
ETHICS AND ELECTION COMMITTEE AT
THE FLORIDA SENATE BY OUR
PRESIDENT WHO IS A REPUBLICAN.
WE ABSOLUTELY MUST, AND I HAVE
BILLS IN DRAFTING RIGHT NOW,
SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING SOME OF
THESE THAT YOU SAY.
BUT WE’RE GOING TO NEED TO, BOTH
PARTIES, COME TOGETHER TO SAY
ENOUGH, THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED,
PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THE HIDING
OF THE MONEY, AND YOU KNOW ONE
THING IS TO SAY WE DON’T LIKE
CERTAIN BIG PACS THAT COME IN
HERE AND SPEND MONEY.
BUT IF YOU KNOW THAT THE MONEY
CAME FROM BLOOMBERG, THEN IT
WASN’T DARK MONEY, YOU KNOW
WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM.
I’M TACK BEING PACS THAT
ABSOLUTELY CLOSE DOWN AND NEVER,
NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM.
AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED
IN THIS CASE.
AND THAT IS WHY I FILED IN THE
COURTS DISCOVERY TO FIND OUT
WHERE DID ALL OF THIS MONEY COME
FROM.
MY OWN PICTURE WAS USED IN SOME
OF THESE.
THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME AND MY
RACES AS WELL.
SO THIS IS NOTHING NEW BUT WE
HAVE TO FIX IT.
AND I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE THAT
WE ARE COMING TOGETHER TO FIX IT
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF
THIS.
THIS IS NOT REPUBLICAN OR
DEMOCRAT.
THIS IS ABOUT DEMOCRACY.
>> YOU KNOW, THERE IS-- I WOULD
LIKE TO POSE THIS QUESTION TO
CHIP LAMARCA BECAUSE THEY’RE IN
THIS CASE, IN DISTRICT 37, THERE
WERE FLYERS PUT OUT TO ALEX
RODRIGUEZ TO ABSOLUTELY MAKE HIM
LOOK LIKE A DEMOCRAT, ALL THE
DEMOCRATIC ISSUES AND THE FLYERS
WERE PEOPLE-- HERE IS THE
QUESTION.
OUR NEW SENATOR IN THIS DISTRICT
IS ILEANA GARCIA, THE
REPUBLICAN, WHO WAS A PERFECTLY
LEGITIMATE CANDIDATE.
HOPEFULLY WILL BE AN AMAZING
SENATOR.
AND SHE TOOK TO TWITTER TO SORT
OF DEPEND THIS ELECTION AND
DEFEND HER WIN.
CHIP S SHE KIND EVER A VICTIM IN
THIS.
WILL HER TERMS FORE BE
QUESTIONED BY SOME PEOPLE WHO
WONDER WHO MIGHT HAVE HATCHED?
>> GLENNA, I DON’T THINK SO.
I CERTAINLY, I DON’T CONSIDER
THAT THE CASE.
I’M NOT -- I HAVE NOT MET
SENATOR GARCIA, BUT I WOULD SAY
THIS.
IF THE ELECTION WAS CLOSE ENOUGH
THAT IT WAS 32 VOTES, REGARDLESS
OF WHETHER WE THINK IT’S BECAUSE
OF A THIRD CANDIDATE IN THERE,
THEN I WOULD PUT THE ONUS BACK
ON THE FORMER STATE SENATOR WHO
I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
SPEAK TO ON ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE
TO GET YOUR MESSAGE OUT.
LOOK, AS SENATOR TEDEJO SAID,
DARK MONEY OR NOT DARK MONEY,
BUT BIG MONEY COMING IN HERE AND
DISTORTING OUR VOTING RECORDS,
PHYSICAL VOTING RECORDS WE’VE
TAKEN VOTES ON, THAT IS UP TO US
TO DEFEND.
I HAD TO DO THAT TO THE TUNE OF
1.65 MILLION DOLLARS FOR HOUSE
FEES IN BROWARD COUNTY WHICH IS
KIND OF RIDICULOUS.
BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HER
RECORDS IS GOING TO BE THAT SHE
WON HER ELECTION AND I COMMEND
HER ON THAT, AND LOOK FORWARD TO
WORKING WITH THE SENATOR IN
DISTRICT 38 AND AS WELL AS ALL
THE OTHER SENATORS.
AND HOPEFULLY WE’LL GET GOOD
BILLS PASSED AND THAT WILL
REPRESENT THE DONOR COUNTIES
THAT WE ARE IN BROWARD, PALM
BEACH AND MIAMI DADE.
I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING
BACK UP IN JANUARY AND GET GREAT
THINGS DONE.
>> WE ARE ALL FOR THAT.
>> WE ARE FOR THAT AND WE WANT
TO MAKE IT JUST ON THE RECORD,
WE HAVE INVITED SENATOR GARCIA
TO BE A GUEST ON THIS PROGRAM.
IN FACT BOTH GLENNA AND HAVE I
PUT IN CALLS TO FRANK ARTILLES
AND HAVE NOT HEARD BACK.
WE WILL KEEP TRYING TO DO THAT.