I am really interested in the opinion of this story from readers who remember the era, tactics and strategies of former GOP consultant ¹Lee Atwater. I cannot read this bizarre and unstable story without thinking about the stuff Atwater used to do….
The Tampa Bay, Florida, area congressional seat currently occupied by Charlie Crist is going to be vacant as Crist runs for Florida Governor in 2022 against republican Ron DeSantis.
As a result there are many people lining up to run for the Tampa area congressional district. One of the leading republican candidates is Paulina Luna who lost to Crist in 2020 (local election ballot fraud not withstanding).
However, a story in Politico today outlines a lower-tier GOP candidate threatening to kill Paulina Luna if it looks like she will win the primary. The entire story is beyond weird, including how and why someone would have begun recording the conversation in the first place; then the goofy story is delivered to lefty Politico exclusively (ergo very Atwater-esque).
MIAMI — A little-known GOP candidate in one of Florida’s most competitive congressional seats was secretly recorded threatening to send “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” to a fellow Republican opponent to make her “disappear.”
The multiple counting issue is just one aspect, one point of data, that current lawsuits within the region are attempting to resolve. The scanning of the same batches of ballots multiple times would explain the “missing batches” issue. The batches are “missing” because they were simply not batches at all, they were duplicate scans of ballots that had already been counted.



