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Gainesville’s NPR affiliate reports:
Family members of a Republican congressional nominee in South Florida are mourning the death of a man they described as a loving father who wrestled with addiction. Newly released police and autopsy records show he died of a fentanyl and cocaine overdose after relapsing into using drugs.
Jason Mariner won the two-person GOP primary in November 2021 – six months after his divorce was finalized – with 58% of the vote in the heavily Democratic 20th congressional district, which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Mariner received close to 11,000 votes, badly losing the special election in January 2022 to replace incumbent Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who had died. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick won that race with around 45,000 votes, beating Mariner by 59 percentage points.
Read the full article. Mariner first appeared here in November 2021 when he declared himself eligible to run despite Florida’s rule against felon candidates.
If he had won, the issue would likely have gone to the courts. Days after his 59-point loss in the January 2022 special election, he appeared here when he declared that the election had been stolen.
Mariner, who ran on the usual cultist “America First” platform, had a history of convictions for felony theft, burglary, cocaine possession, obstruction, and violently resisting arrest. Details about his death are at the top link.
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