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Well it happened. I got an attack ad in my mailbox today and now I know I cannot vote for Lizbeth Benacquisto.<\/p>\nBy Charlie Whitehead<\/p>\n
Well it happened. I got an attack ad in my mailbox today and now I know I cannot vote for Lizbeth Benacquisto.<\/p>\n
\u2018Jason Maughan is missing\u2019 screamed the postcard-sized ad, which takes the Senator\u2019s challenger to task for numerous votes he did not cast in elections from 2004 through 2016.<\/p>\n
Now I believe that is a bad thing for a candidate. But that\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n
The ad was paid for by a Political Action Committee called Truth Matters. So who could possibly argue with that? Of course truth matters.<\/p>\n
And since truth does matter here\u2019s a little bit of it from me to you.<\/p>\n
Truth Matters was created in February of 2014. It appears to be the progeny of an Electioneering Communication Organization of the same name, a group also funded by those who pervert our elections, including yet another ECO called Americans for Economic Opportunity. Again, who could possibly oppose economic opportunity?<\/p>\n
Well Americans for Economic Opportunity invested over $500,000 in Truth Matters convincing you to vote their way. That money came from that same list of perverters of democracy, including U.S. Sugar.<\/p>\n
Since those big investments Truth Matters has run through over $1.1 million manipulating our elections. It got that money from a lot of different places \u2013 including the usual suspects.<\/p>\n
For example, when this fledgling truth-loving group was just getting started, shortly after it banked the $500,000 from Americans for Economic Opportunity, it got $100,000 in support from Florida Crystals.<\/p>\n
At the end of a long list of contributions from other political corporate entities, again precisely the bunch that has twisted Florida\u2019s government so badly that it currently functions for the benefit of the few and against the interests of the many, coincidentally just under a month before the ad landed in my mailbox, came a check for $10,000 from U.S. Sugar.<\/p>\n
As I have been telling voters for a very long time, if you receive a communication \u2013 on your TV, on the radio, in the paper \u2013 from a PAC or from one of these scumbag committees hiding behind a high-sounding name DO NOT DO WHAT THEY SAY.<\/p>\n
I promise you that these sleazy groups want you to vote in their best interest, not yours. If you think the interests of U.S. Sugar and Florida Crystals are the same as yours I suggest you open your window and look out. Take a walk down to the beach and \u2013 if you dare \u2013 stick your toes in the water. Or drive to any south Florida beach and have a look.<\/p>\n
And another aside, this one to my friends in the sleazy politics business. I\u2019m still here. If you send me this shit I will gladly share my feelings and my knowledge. It took me but a few seconds to run this one down. It\u2019s easy if you know how. Please carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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