Mike Bloomberg’s Team Re-Enfranchises 32,000 Felons In Florida — No Whites or Asians Allowed

Bribery probe of Bloomberg over pledge to pay Florida felons' fines Proposed




Via Hot Air, Fox News and Daily Mail


A clever bit of gamesmanship by Democrats who’ve otherwise been thwarted in their attempt to return Florida’s many hundreds of thousands of felons to the voter rolls in time for the election. In 2018 Floridians passed a constitutional amendment that restored the right to vote to anyone who’d been convicted of a crime other than murder or a sexual offense. That would have put a gigantic number of new voters in play, many of them poor and minorities, in a state that Trump won by a little more than 100,000 four years ago.

Can’t have that, Republicans said. So the state legislature passed a law stipulating that felons would only regain their right to vote if they paid off all outstanding fines and court fees related to their cases. That policy was savaged as a de facto poll tax; a lawsuit ensued, but the new statute was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Voting with the majority: Barbara Lagoa, one of Trump’s new SCOTUS shortlisters. According to WaPo, some 775,000(!) felons still owe money to the court system. They’re barred from voting unless and until SCOTUS itself says otherwise.

…or, of course, unless they manage to scrape together the dough to pay off their fines in time to vote in the upcoming election. Mike Bloomberg has vowed to spend $100 million in Florida to try to get Biden over the top, much of which will go to advertising and GOTV projects. But he and his team had a bright idea. What if they looked through the long list of felons with outstanding debt and just paid off the debts for people who owe only a small amount of money? And what if, instead of helping out every ex-con with a small fine still outstanding, they helped out only those ex-cons who are most likely to vote for Joe Biden, namely, black voters (and Latinos to a much smaller extent)?

For the comparatively low price of $16 million, Team Bloomy may have just added tens of thousands of votes to Biden’s eventual total. I wonder how many votes the same amount spent on advertising would have flipped, especially given how intense polarization is about Trump. A few hundred, maybe? Full Story By ALLAHPUNDIT @ Hot Air

Gaetz calls for election bribery probe of Bloomberg over pledge to pay Florida felons' fines

'I believe there may be a criminal investigation already underway,' Gaetz tells Sean Hannity

House Judiciary Committee member Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told "Hannity" Tuesday that he has spoken with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody about potentially launching a bribery investigation into former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.



Bloomberg, who briefly joined the race for the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year, has reportedly raised more than $16 million for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

Under the Florida state constitution, convicted felons can regain their voting rights after having served their time. However, a law enacted by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis states that felons must pay all fines, restitution, and other legal financial obligations before their sentences could be considered fully served.

"[Under Florida law] it’s a third-degree felony for someone to either directly or indirectly provide something of value to impact whether or not someone votes," Gaetz explained. "So the question is whether or not paying off someone’s fines and legal obligations counts as something of value, and it clearly does.

"If Michael Bloomberg was offering to pay off people's credit card debt," Gaetz added, "you would obviously see the value in that.

"[W]hen you improve someone’s net worth by eliminating their financial liabilities, that’s something of value," he went on. "Normally, it would be very difficult to prove that that was directly linked to impacting whether or not someone was going to vote. But they literally wrote their own admission." ... Full Story By Charles Creitz @ Fox News


Rep. Matt Gaetz calls for 'vote buying' criminal probe into Mike Bloomberg for paying off $20M in debt for 31,000 Florida felons so that they can cast ballots in November

Rep. Matt Gaetz called on Florida's attorney general to investigate the tactic Bloomberg paid off $20M in debt for 31,000 felons in Florida so they can vote

The move comes just days after Florida Gov Ron DeSantis won a court victory to keep felons from voting until they've paid off fines, restitution and court fees

Other donors include John Legend, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Ben & Jerry's, Levi Strauss & Co and the Miami Dolphins

The billionaire has also pledged $100million to help Joe Biden win in Florida Full Story @ Daily Mail


In Other Mike Bloomberg Shady dealings .... Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Mike Bloomberg 2020 on Aug. 31 responded to Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss their lawsuit. Bloomberg’s lawyers said employment agreements stipulated workers could be fired at any time, but they say they were promised jobs all the way through the general election – whether Bloomberg won the Democratic nomination or not.

So basically Bloomberg has no problem shelling out money tp convicted felons in an attempt to garner their vote for Joe Biden, but can't live up to his contractual obligations to honest hard working staffers - typical Democrat ... Fired staffers hit back at Bloomberg's motion to dismiss their lawsuit