Two days later, the money went from the PAC to the Orlando-area print and advertising company.
Shortly afterwards, there was an influx of almost identical political aviators who sought to remove their support by voting for disqualified candidates who had no real interest in the election, perhaps by supporting the Democratic candidates. None, for example, engaged in typical campaign activities or raised significant funds.
In one case, Mailors appears to have helped Republicans – the Latinos co-founders for Trump for Trump – beat the Democrats in the state Senate race to a razor-thin margin of just 32 votes.
A “dark money” mystery has been created in Sunshine State in a situation that has been generating headlines in Florida for weeks.
Among the key questions: What exactly is proclamation and what is the purpose and desired effect behind its generous contribution to the two fleeing PACs? And, why did that PAC support unsuspecting candidates with no affiliation with the party and no real chance of winning?
CNN has learned that Proclavity was created in 2019 in Delaware. Listed in its Corporate Filing as President Richard Alexander. An attempt to reach Alexander failed; The phone number for the company is no longer working and its listed address is the UPS store in Atlanta. Staff at the store confirmed that the proclamation contained a mailbox, but declined to provide any additional information, citing client confidentiality.
Although Proclavity’s money was paid to target Democratic voters in the ad, it passed through a pair of PACs, one of which has ties to a young Republican political strategist named Alex Alvarado. Alvarado’s stepfather is the president of a company that pays flyers to print. Records show that the company land is just outside the Rlando-area home, owned by Alvarado’s stepfather and mother.
Alvarado, a former congress intern and entrepreneur, declined to be interviewed for the story. Records show that his firm, Alvarado Strategies, has paid more than 7 7,267,000 so far this year for its political work.
The two Florida PACs that have received proclamation contributions were both registered on the same date and time — October 2 at 11:34 a.m., according to Florida Division of Election documents.
A day later, one of the PACs – our Florida PC – got 0 370,000 from Proquit; Others – The Truth PC – got 180,000.
Each presidency of the PACS is held by women in their mid-20s who are new to the political scene. None of the women on the phone number listed for PAC responded to multiple messages left for them. Attempts to reach them through various other means failed.
According to records, Alvarado once shared an address with the woman who currently owns the house, Emily Leiva, who is listed as chairman of our Florida PC, Sierra Olive. Olive posted a photo of herself and Leva on Facebook in 2017 with the caption “Favorite human”.
Liva did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Some of the flyers paid for by our Florida PC and The Truth PC had similar language references, particularly democratic topics such as fixing health care, fighting climate change, and speaking the truth in power. They were turned into at least three state senate races in which non-partisan candidates competed in addition to Democrats and Republicans.
In the South Florida race featuring Latinos for Trump’s candidate, Rudriguez – Rudriguez – had the same name as Democratic acquirer Jose Javier Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was charged in 2012 with two counts of aggravated assault, according to court records. He pleaded guilty, although the verdict on the charges was stayed, the documents show.
In the second case, Miami attorney Juan A. Chanchez said Rodriguez went missing after paying only a portion of what the judge ordered the client to pay in a dispute involving a futile investigation.
“We couldn’t find him,” said Sanchez, who said Rodriguez was eventually found living in Boca Raton, Florida. “She gave a weird story that she was broken and she didn’t have the money.”
The attorney said he struggles to believe Rodriguez is seriously seeking to become a state senator.
“It would be something incredible,” he said.
Alex Rodriguez did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. His attorney, William Barzi, declined to comment.
Votes: State Senator Jose Javier Rodriguez, who lost the election, has called for an inquiry into Alex Rodriguez’s candidacy and questioned who is behind it.
“Democracy needs to have transparency, and to achieve that I believe this is a full investigation of elections,” he said in a video shared with the media.
Newly elected Republican state senator Ileana Garcia raised questions from CNN about her involvement in another Rodriguez campaign – if any.
“I will not allow this outraged person to be distracted from further important work,” Garcia said in a statement.
Erin Isaac, a spokeswoman for both Garcia and Florida’s Republican Senate Campaign Committee, said the committee had nothing to do with Alex Rodriguez’s candidacy.
“Do we have anything to do with it? My answer is no,” he said.
The Miami Herald, citing “sources with knowledge”, reported last week that Miami-Dade prosecutors have launched an investigation into Alex Rodriguez’s candidacy. A spokesman for OfficeFace declined to confirm or deny the existence of the investigation to CNN.
Ben Wilcox, director of research at Integrity Florida, a non-partisan watchdog group, said he had no doubt that someone running a dark money campaign had affected at least one state senate seat.
“When it comes to financing a campaign, Florida regulates it so loosely that it’s probably legal, but it really shouldn’t be,” Wilcox said. “It’s an obstacle for voters and it calls into question the integrity of our election.”
CNN’s Amitoj Singh, Yahya Abu-Ghazala, Sybile Maiz-Osterman and Benjamin Naugh Ton contributed to the report.
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