In his desperate attempt to get on the GOP presidential debate map, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is giving away both a free year of college and a front row seat to soccer legend Lionel Messi’s first game at InterMiami.
All one has to do is give $1 to his campaign.
Let’s forget a minute how pathetic this stunt is. Suarez, who needs 40,000 individual contributions to his campaign before he can even think about a seat at the debate table, can’t get those checks in any legitimate way. So he’s doing a what any Miami club promoter would do: a raffle.
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Giving to Suarez on Thursday meant that your name would be entered into one of two raffles: One for a free college education and another for a front row seat to Messi’s first game.
Is it legal? Depends on who you ask. It has been done before. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is giving away $20 gift cards for every $1 donation pretty much for the same reason.
But Florida prohibits candidates from using any gambling measures — and buying a raffle ticket is still considered gambling.
The Super PAC helping Suarez, SOS America paid for the digital ads and other promotion of the tuition free year, for which they use the AI Suarez. So he can always say it wasn’t him.
But Suarez himself — the champion of Miami Freedom Park, who held the developers’ hands throughout the whole twisted real estate deal disguised as a stadium — tweeted about the Messi seat.
There is one problem with the raffle, though. It’s how he got the front row ticket in the first place. Was it gifted to him? By who? Was it Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who gave Baby X and his wife $30,000 Formula 1 tickets two months ago. Aren’t there limitations on the value of gifts to campaigns?
According to the InterMiami web page, front row tickets cost between $1,000 and $10,000.
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