| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| DeSantis Suspends Mayor From Office Who Was Arrested For Alleged Voter Fraud |
| 2023-06-08 |
| [DailyWire] Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis suspended North Miami Beach Democrat Mayor Anthony DeFillipo from office on Monday after he was arrested and charged with multiple felonies for allegedly voting illegally in an election multiple times. DeFillipo was charged last week with three counts of Election-Unqualified Voter, each a third-degree felony. Each count carries up to 5 years in prison, if convicted. "Anthony F. DeFillipo II is suspended from the public office, which he now holds, to wit: Mayor of the City of North Miami Beach," DeSantis said in an executive order. The executive order also prohibits him from "performing any official act, duty, or function of public office; from receiving any pay or allowance; and from being entitled to any of the emoluments or privileges of public office during the period of this suspension, which period shall be from today until a further Executive Order is issued or as otherwise provided by law." Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, a Democrat, said during a presser last week that "we believe the evidence shows [DeFillipo] voted illegally three times." Fernandez Rundle said that DeFillipo had moved out of North Miami Beach to Davie yet he allegedly returned and voted three times in the district that he no longer lived in. She said that cellphone data was used to track where he was on the days that the votes were cast. CBS News reported that he says that he owns two homes in Davie but that none of those homes are his permanent residence. "I totally forgot, it was an oversight and I had it fixed immediately when I noticed," DeFillipo told NBC6. "We’re human, we make mistakes." A resident and a commissioner’s former campaign worker filed a complaint against DeFillipo late last year alleging that he lived in Davie with his wife and not in North Miami Beach, the report said. At the heart of the issue is how he voted three times in 2022 from an address that he sold in 2021, according to Florida Politics. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Making a play for the Trumpees. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-06-08 07:52 |
| #1 His effort at voter fraud was shamefully stupid. It would make a difference if the race came down to a couple of votes, a rare occurrence. His race was not close enough for it to have been mentioned in the article, so he cheated ineffectively for no reason. He also committed the felonies himself. That’s what relatives and campaign staff is for. If you are corrupt, those should be the same people. Based on his total inability to cheat with any type of professionalism and expertise, I would speculate that he is Republican, but the news article didn’t mention his party affiliation five times so my guess is Democrat, a stupid and incompetent one. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-08 06:41 |