Dirty Politics in Florida's Congressional District 11 Republican Primaries

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If this apparently well researched VoxPopuli story is true, it seems after reading the story, in my opinion, that a Villages area wealthy couple, Jennifer & Joe McMahon, who support Dan Webster for Congress in the current Republican primary race featuring Webster, Laura Loomer and lesser known Gavriel Soriano, plan for the husband to replace Webster (if he wins the primary) in two years.  They created a PAC (Conservative Republicans for Responsible Representation ) to place recent hit ads (one is included below) against Laura Loomer, and separately (documented by emails to VoxPopuli) tried to convince Soriano (according to info he gave VoxPopuli) to resign and maybe endorse Webster.  There is apparently no evidence that Webster knew about this effort to get Soriano to resign from the race just before voting day. 

 

Thanks to Jim Volpe for sending me the link to the story.

 

The couple and their PAC apparently are behind the very nasty attack ads being published locally, even in the throwaway paper Triangle News Leader, against Laura Loomer.  ( A copy of both the McMahon attack ad and a Loomer ad from today's Triangle News Leader are below).

 

The VoxPopuli story was updated three times, and the last one said:

"Meanwhile, on Aug. 17 at 11:10 P.M., VoxPopuli received an email from Jennifer McMahon's account, signed "Joe McMahon" that claimed they were filing a $10 million lawsuit against VoxPopuli for our reporting.  "I hope your shtty [sic] little non-profit has the resources to defend that," the email said. "You f'ed up." "

 

I won't try to summarize the story here - read it at the VoxPopuli website.

https://www.wintergardenvox.com/post/republican-pac-tries-to-bribe-challenger-to-drop-out-of-11th-congressional-district-primary  

 

I once was sued for defamation for five years and offered advice to VoxPopuli. 

 

Dan Webster needs to issue a statement criticizing and distancing himself from the McMahon's actions and returning any contributions received from the McMahons.

 

Webster has avoided many public forums with Loomer, so below is a picture at a Villages candidate forum where they used an empty suit to represent "no show" Webster.  

A hit ad in the August 17, 2022 issue of Lake County's Triangle News Leader against Laura Loomer was placed by the McMahon's PAC "Conservative Republicans for Responsible Representation".   As a Conservative Republican, I think McMahon should be chastised for pretending to represent all Conservative Republicans.

 

Laura Loomer's much more restrained, but factual ad regarding the election race in the same paper.

 

And, yes, I support Laura Loomer for US Congress, District 11.  You can see videos of her and candidate forums in Lake County at Rumble.com/FiscalRangers  I attended at least five candidate forums and Dan Webster was not at one of them except the Clermont Hob Nob, where there were no speeches or debates among candidates. 

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Vance Jochim

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Tavares, FL

Lake County, FL Fiscal Watchdog blogger - FiscalRangers.com

Retired Fortune 500 Internal Audit Manager, anti-corruption manager

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