FL GOP Seeks Rule Change For Its Criminally Charged

Florida Politics reports:

Some leading members of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) are talking about updating the party’s bylaws so that if the Governor removes a criminally charged member from public office, that member can’t then run for a party leadership post.

Three Republicans facing indictments won seats last week on the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee. Two of them, former Miami City Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla and ex-Hialeah Council member Angelica Pacheco, were removed from office in the past year by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The third is ex-U.S. Rep. David Rivera, a former Chair of the Miami-Dade GOP. He was not in office in December 2022, when he was federally indicted for allegedly working as an unregistered foreign agent.

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Republicans float rules change after criminally charged members win Executive Committee seats

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