Summary
At least four different flyers were circulated by People for Fairness and Equality, the most egregious of which insinuated that a vote for Saunders would "turn back the clock" on racial equality and bring a return to the days of "Jim Crow, lynchings, Klansmen, police brutality and racism." Those flyers suggested voters contact Bullard.
On Aug. 26, Citizens for Fairness and Equality paid $9,877 to the Baughman Company of San Francisco for "design and printing of Bullard handouts" and $4,879 to the same company for "design and printing of Bullard signs."The money was donated from Aug. 21 through Aug. 26. Full-page glossy flyers attacking Saunders began appearing in mailboxes throughout south Florida the weekend of Aug. 22. Expenditures of $193,938 were made from Aug. 23 through Aug. 26. It could not be determined from the report whether the expenditures were related to the Saunders' mailings, though there was a payment of $113,800 for "direct mail production and postage" to Dodd Printers of Hialeah.See the full content of this document
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Financing Smear Campaigns
It's something like a shell game, the way the money trails behind a series of contentious campaign ads that trashed Key West native Ron Saunders and helped quash his bid to become the Keys' state senator.
Saunders lost his second bid to be the democratic contender for the District 39 state senate seat, which is held by Larcenia Bullard of Miami. Bullard took 45.5 percent of the vote to Saunders' 39.6 percent in the Aug. 31 Democratic primary. Former Bullard aide Sheila Chamberlain took nearly 15 percent of the vote in the district, which has long been a democratic stronghold.Bullard now faces Republican Joe Delaney in the November general election. The loss to Bullard, particularly in light...See the full content of this document
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