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Straight from the Heritage Foundation database.

The fucker belongs in chains.


Another Republican convicted of voter fraud at Florida GOP stronghold

To the extent that the United States has a retirement community known to national audiences, it’s probably The Villages in central Florida. As
regular readers probably recall, it’s also earned a reputation as a far-
right Republican stronghold.

For example, when Donald Trump promoted a video showing a parade of
supporters in golf carts — one of whom shouted, “White power” — it was
recorded at The Villages.

It was against this backdrop that we learned in 2021 that three residents
of The Villages were charged with voter fraud. A fourth soon followed. As
WKMG in Orlando reported this week, the list now includes a fifth.

A resident from The Villages was found guilty of charges related to
voter fraud in the 2020 election on Monday. Robert Rivernider Jr., 58, is accused of signing his father’s name to a vote-by-mail ballot. According
to Sumter County Elections Supervisor Bill Keen, Rivernider’s father died
on Oct. 19, 2020. He had a ballot dated and signed on Oct. 16, 2020, and postmarked on Oct. 23, 2020.

Officials discovered a problem with the late voter’s signature, which apparently helped lead to Rivernider’s conviction.

The local report from the CBS affiliate added, “Rivernider is a
Republican Party activist, with a website that touts his experience with several party campaigns, including the Trump and Bush/Cheney presidential campaigns and the Laura Loomer congressional campaign in 2022.”

It’s also a feather in the cap for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office of Election
Crimes and Security, which has apparently managed to secure a conviction following a series of failed cases.

As for the possible consequences, Rivernider is facing the possibility of
a prison sentence, though it remains to be seen whether that’ll happen.
The other fraud charges against residents of The Villages ended in parole
for the defendants.

Of course, they agreed to plead guilty ahead of their trials. Rivernider
took his chances with a local jury, which convicted him.

He was represented by former state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who’s running a Republican congressional campaign in Florida next year.

After the verdict was announced, the headline in The Villages’ own
newspaper read, “Trumper shocked when jury finds him guilty of vote
fraud.”

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The man accused of kidnapping a college student from a Kroger parking lot, forcing her to drive to an abandoned church where he raped her and then making her drive to Atlanta was sentenced to life.

Timothy Wilson plead guilty and on Monday, was sentenced to life for kidnapping, aggravated assault and hijacking a motor vehicle.

RELATED | Local college student sues Kroger, stating kidnapping could’ve been prevented

Wilson received the maximum sentence for kidnapping with bodily injury and is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison, according to Coweta County District Attorney.

11Alive first reported the story on Sept. 5, 2017, after police located and saved the University of West Georgia student at a Midtown Kroger off Monroe Drive. Police said she was kidnapped at knifepoint just before 3 a.m. at a Kroger in Carrolton before
being forced into her own car.

MORE | Police: Woman kidnapped from Carroll Co. escapes at Atlanta Kroger

Surveillance video showed the moments leading up to the attack and photos showed 28-year-old Wilson walking around the store in a bucket hat before the attack.

The victim told told 11Alive Wilson forced her into her own car and then asked her how to get to Atlanta.

The attacker took her up a hill to a church and backed into a parking space in a back corner. Then, he told her to take off her clothes and assaulted her. The student who had just moments early been at a local grocery store now thought she was going to
die.

"He told me it would really just be easier to get rid of my body because he was already doing so much wrong," she said.

He then made a comment that she said hit her hard saying that there was "no purpose in crying".

"Because crying wasn't going to help anything. It wasn't going to get me out of the situation I was in. It wasn't beneficial, so I had to keep my head on straight, think logically."

Then she bravely took an action that may have ultimately saved her life - while also possibly risking it.

WATCH | College student recounts how she survived kidnapping, sexual assault

After the assault, Wilson asked for directions. The victim asked for her phone so she could look them up.

"She used her cell phone to alert her family. Her family was able to get in contact with our 911 center and let our officers know where she was," Schiffbauer said.

The victim told BuzzFeed News she turned the brightness on her phone down and contacted texted her boyfriend who alerted police.

WATCH | RAW: Surveillance video of Carrollton kidnapping

She was able to drop a location pin and told him to look out for her car. Because of her quick thinking, police tracked her location to the Kroger in Midtown, which is over a 50-mile drive.

An officer canvassing the area spotted the victim’s stolen car and when Wilson saw police, he reportedly took off in the vehicle and crashed into multiple cars in the parking lot.

After 10 hours, Wilson was caught by police. He had additional charges in an Atlanta for rape, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment and aggravated assault against a police officer.

Photos | Woman kidnapped in Carroll Co. escapes in Midtown

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/carrollton/man-who-kidnapped-college-student-from-kroger-assaulted-her-pleads-guilty/85-561382935

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