{"id":36097,"date":"2022-07-22T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=36097"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:44:31","slug":"aaron-bean-demands-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/aaron-bean-demands-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Bean Demands Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aaron Bean demands<\/div>\n
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fraudulent fundraising\u00a0 Shameful and disgusting,’ says Bean, demanding federal and state inquiries<\/div>\n
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State Sen.\u00a0Aaron Bean<\/strong>\u00a0demanded on Friday a federal and state probe into false claims made by an opponent in the Republican Primary race in Florida\u2019s 4th Congressional District.<\/p>\n

Candidate\u00a0Erick Aguilar<\/strong>, as first reported by\u00a0POLITICO Florida<\/strong><\/a>, was removed from the Republican fundraising platform WinRed after revelations he had been appropriating the identities of national Republicans like\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/strong>\u00a0in pursuit of small-dollar donations.<\/p>\n

The gambit worked. Aguilar has reported raising over $1 million for this race, with donations from around the country amounting to a big chunk of that sum. But as POLITICO Florida noted, many of the donors contacted had no clue who Aguilar was.<\/p>\n

Bean wants answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were saddened and angered to read that our opponent, Erick Aguilar, has been scamming seniors and others in Florida and all across the country to get contributions to his campaign,\u201d said Bean, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cImpersonating Gov. DeSantis and President Trump in fundraising emails is not only shameful and disgusting, but it is also fraud and should be investigated at the state and federal level,\u201d Bean added.<\/p>\n

The reports of questionable fundraising tactics are the latest turn in a race that pits one of the stalwarts of Northeast Florida politics against a candidate who got less than 20% of the vote two years ago, the last time he ran for Congress.<\/p>\n

Bean, a Fernandina Beach Republican currently serving in the state Senate, continues to consolidate support from most electorally successful wings of the Florida Republican Party. U.S. Sen.\u00a0Marco Rubio<\/strong><\/a>, Attorney General\u00a0Ashley Moody<\/strong>, Chief Financial Officer\u00a0Jimmy Patronis<\/strong>\u00a0and a swath of regional elected officials have all endorsed Bean.<\/p>\n

The seat, which replaces the minority access seat in the old Florida\u2019s 5th Congressional District, is designed to perform Republican in a General Election. Bean and Aguilar are on the Primary ballot, along with health insurance contract analyst\u00a0Jon Chuba<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A recent poll by the Tyson Group conducted for the Republican Party of Florida showed three-fifths of voters were undecided, with Bean getting 24% support, Aguilar 14% and Chuba 3%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Though the district is expected to lean Republican in the fall, former state Sen.\u00a0Tony Hill<\/strong>\u00a0and previous congressional candidate\u00a0LaShonda Holloway<\/strong>\u00a0are both actively campaigning for the Democratic nomination-<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Bean demands probe of opponent\u2019s fraudulent fundraising\u00a0 Shameful and disgusting,’ says Bean, demanding federal and state inquiries State Sen.\u00a0Aaron Bean\u00a0demanded on Friday a federal and state probe into false claims made by an opponent in the Republican Primary race in Florida\u2019s 4th Congressional District. Candidate\u00a0Erick Aguilar, as first reported by\u00a0POLITICO Florida, was removed from Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52,5,6,51,1],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36100,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions\/36100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}