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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on October 07, 2010, 12:40:12 PM
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I am unhappy with the candidates running in Florida's gubenatorial race. However there may be a third party alternative! I mean hey, he's got all these endorsements. Even the supermodels are backing him! What's not to love? Sometimes I despair of this state, but then I realize, where else can you get so much entertainment for the price of the dailey paper? ::) ;D This one is worth a read.
FQ13 who has long since decided to only drink bottled water while in Florida. I mean, the crazy has to come from somewhere right? ;D
'Billionaire' candidate PACs 'em in Palm Beach Post
Frank Cerabino
There's one candidate for Florida governor who is really cleaning up when it comes to the sheer number of political action committees lining up to support him.
No, not Rick Scott or Alex Sink. Sure, those two mainstream party candidates can count on the usual cast of deep-pocket special interest groups to fuel their campaigns.
But do they have both the Florida Intellectual Elites Political Committee and the Florida Bourgeois Political Committee on their side?
Do they have any hope of appealing to the American Modeling Agencies Political Action Committee, the Florida Boxing Players Committee and the Florida Celebrities Committee?
No way. Those groups belong to Josue Larose, a state-qualified write-in candidate for governor.
Who is Josue Larose?
He would be the guy behind hundreds of other registered political action committees, including the Billionaire Josue Larose's Admirers Committee, the Billionaire Josue Larose's Best Friends Committee and the Billionaire Josue Larose's Female Super Models Committee.
Models! Priests! Stars! Nobles!
He also has the backing of Billionaire Josue Larose's Female Catholic Priests Committee, an organization that must certainly have very little overlap with the Billionaire Josue Larose's Dating Women Committee.
I contacted the candidate via e-mail and learned quickly that he is very touchy when it comes to any questions about his billionaire status.
"I want to tell you that I am not available for any interview," he responded on his campaign e-mail account, "because most of the reporters are racists."
Even those in the Billionaire Josue Larose's Accredited Journalists Committee?
Along with creating hundreds of political action committees, Larose has also 40 registered political parties in the state, including the American Aristocrats Political Party, the American Film Stars Political Party and the American Noble Persons Political Party.
The Florida Division of Elections database is infested with his zeal.
"Forming many political parties and PACs is legal by the Florida state laws and by the federal laws, because there is no limit of the quantity someone can form," Larose wrote in his e-mail.
To form a political action committee in Florida, all you need is one other person to join you. It doesn't cost a dime to file the paperwork.
"You just have to designate a campaign treasurer," said Jennifer Krell Davis, a spokeswoman with the Florida Division of Elections. "You don't actually have to have any money in an account.
"You can say this is the bank I would use if I had an account."
$50 a day? Uh oh
But there is a catch. Filing as a political action committee triggers paperwork requirements.
"There's a lot reporting deadlines," Davis said.
And Larose has been much better at inventing new names for theoretical political action committees than he has been at complying with actual treasury report filing deadlines.
As a result, his numerous committees have already been hit with fine notices. The "fail to file" fines began accumulating in early August. They start at $50 a day, and eventually get forwarded to the Florida Elections Commission, which can impose fines up to $1,000 per infraction.
I guess that paperwork isn't a priority with the Billionaire Josue Larose's Companionship Secretaries Committee.
~ frank_cerabino@pbpost.com
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It has to be a scam of some sort, I don't see the catch,but it has to be there, I'm guessing money laundering, some way to get hot cash documented and accounted for.
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It has to be a scam of some sort, I don't see the catch,but it has to be there, I'm guessing money laundering, some way to get hot cash documented and accounted for.
If this were a normal state I'd aree. You're forgetting its Floria. Just plain old crazy works for motive. Now, if you can combine the two? A convoluted fraud case that has bat shit crazy as the sheer genius that makes it work? Now THAT is true South Florida style. Tying it into weird political corruption? Well that's major bonus points ;D
FQ13
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....... I mean hey, he's got all these endorsements. Even the supermodels are backing him! What's not to love? Sometimes I despair of this state, ...
Uh, are you due for remedial training, in regards to Gibbs Rule #3? We don't just take people at their word here, you know. Pictures are required.
Which, of course, might help your despair. Or at least brighten the day a bit