Could Mystery Green Party Candidates Sway Legislative Races?
News article in the HeraldTribune.com Published Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. In the last hours before Friday’s noon deadline to qualify as candidates for state legislative races, three people each paid the $1,915.92 filing fee to enter as Green Party candidates. Nothing unusual in that. But they entered three of the most heated races in the state for incumbents. The suspicion among some Tallahassee folks is that the candidates representing the left-leaning party were entered by Republicans solely to siphon off a few votes from the Democrats. Green Party of Florida spokeswoman Julia Aires of Sarasota said she had never heard of the three candidates, adding that she and her fellow members would have vetted and endorsed any candidates carrying the party’s banner. “I never heard of them,” she said. “I don’t understand this at all.” Horacio Lemus IV entered the race defended by incumbent Democrat Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, against Republican Laura Benson. Anthony Joseph Mauro ent
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