The Wiley plea mentioned above is interesting.

One Door was never a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.

"at no time have contributions to One Door qualified as deductible charitable contributions"

lot of donors no doubt wrote off $ 800k of contributions

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She thought she was being solicited to raise $$ to fight Brown's redistricting battle.

It's a bit inside baseball, but the redistricting battle also affected republican districts, and it was fought on one side by the establishment who wanted districts (some republican, some democrat) to stay the way they were for predictability and power reasons, and by the League of Women Voters on the other side. LWV was mostly targeting republicans in its efforts to re-draw districts, and Ol' Corrine was just collateral damage since hers was probably the most gerrymandered district in the state.

So in this instance, it's a kind of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation with republicans contributing to save districts they didn't control. Corrine's gerrymandered district was in some sense, a payoff to the Florida Dems for some other gerrymandered republican districts, one of which I lived in. My district (the truly honorable Dan Webster) got redistricted out of existence, and is now held by a Dem (the utterly useless, Glock losing former Orlando Police Chief Val Demmings, wife of Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings). Dan ran in a different district, west of mine, and won anyway, but I think there was a -1 net loss to the Florida republican congressional delegation courtesy of the LWV lawsuit.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:

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She thought she was being solicited to raise $$ to fight Brown's redistricting battle.

It's a bit inside baseball, but the redistricting battle also affected republican districts, and it was fought on one side by the establishment who wanted districts (some republican, some democrat) to stay the way they were for predictability and power reasons, and by the League of Women Voters on the other side. LWV was mostly targeting republicans in its efforts to re-draw districts, and Ol' Corrine was just collateral damage since hers was probably the most gerrymandered district in the state.

So in this instance, it's a kind of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation with republicans contributing to save districts they didn't control. Corrine's gerrymandered district was in some sense, a payoff to the Florida Dems for some other gerrymandered republican districts, one of which I lived in. My district (the truly honorable Dan Webster) got redistricted out of existence, and is now held by a Dem (the utterly useless, Glock losing former Orlando Police Chief Val Demmings, wife of Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings). Dan ran in a different district, west of mine, and won anyway, but I think there was a -1 net loss to the Florida republican congressional delegation courtesy of the LWV lawsuit.

That's what they get for conspiring with the League of Women Voters.

Everybody knows the Ruskies have more influence with voters than those guys.

What would Putin want?

Twenty five years of being reelected. Let that sink in. Twenty. Five. Years.

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Twenty five years of being reelected. Let that sink in. Twenty. Five. Years

Very true, and the smart money said that nothing, but nothing could stop her reelection this time around.
Actually, had she won the Dem primary I believe she would have been reelected. Her loss in the primary was due more to the redistricting than her total unsuitability for office.

If anyone is still interested in Florida's redistricting wars, here is a short history: Ballotpedia

The LWV started the war by sponsoring a constitutional amendment that passed. But the legislature was tasked to redraw the districts; and that's where the peep's will was subverted. Shocking

“Republican political consultants or operatives did, in fact, conspire to manipulate and influence the redistricting process...They made a mockery of the Legislature’s proclaimed transparency and open process of redistricting by doing all of this in the shadow of that process, utilizing the access it gave them to the decision makers, but going to great lengths to conceal from the public their plan and their participation in it.[4] ”
—Judge Terry P. Lewis[7]

And she's proud to have Gagiated the third grade.

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Judge Terry P. Lewi

Terry P. Lewis is a judge on the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. He was appointed to that court in 1998 by Governor Lawton Chiles, after serving as a Leon County Court judge from 1989.[1] Lewis is best known for overseeing the Florida recount during the 2000 US presidential election. He is also a writer of legal thriller novels

Chiles, a long time democrat Senator and Governor of the state...

Former Rep. Corrine Brown announces run for Congress after pleading guilty to tax fraud

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ing-guilty-tax-fraud

16 June 2022

Former Florida Rep. Corrine Brown (D) announced her Congressional run for Florida’s 10th Congressional District Thursday, just a little less than a month after pleading guilty to tax fraud.

Brown, 75, reportedly filed her candidacy papers in Tallahassee, according to Yahoo News.

The Florida Democrat was sentenced to 5 years in jail in 2017 after the jury found she had committed mail, wire, and tax fraud and charged her with 18 of the 22 charges.

Brown and her colleagues were found to have been stealing money via a sham charity called "One Door For Education" wherein they funneled money to themselves after purporting that the charity money would go towards children's scholarships. Prosecutors alleged that Brown and her colleagues brought in over $800,000 between 2012 and 2016, according to The Associated Press.

The former representative served approximately two years of her five-year sentence before authorities released her in April 2020, citing concerns that her age would make her more susceptible to catching the coronavirus.

She scheduled a change-of-plea hearing in May 2022 before her second trial was set to take place on Sept. 12. Chief Judge Timothy J. Corrigan accepted her plea and sentenced Brown to the time she had already served. Brown was also required to pay $62,650.99 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

Brown will now be running up against other Democratic congressional candidates in this year's primary elections on August 23.

Good. Another Republican seat won.