A.G. Gancarski
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown is suing a state legislator for erroneously pushing an endorsement via published “Quick Picks,” but apparently that claim is misplaced.
State Rep. Angie Nixon says one of her colleagues in the Duval County legislative delegation is to blame, and that the beef is four years old now.
“This is simply another attempt by Kimberly Daniels to discredit me. She’s still angry I unseated her four years ago. Now she’s teaming up with my opponent (Brenda Priestly Jackson) and has singled only me out. KD has an obsession and vendetta against me,” Nixon texted Florida Politics on Monday.
The second-term Democrat says her campaign “didn’t authorize fake flyers being distributed,” and adds that she wouldn’t want Brown’s endorsement anyway.
“No disrespect to the former Congresswoman but I wouldn’t feel comfortable on her quick picks,” Nixon said. “We both know there are corporate interest groups that want to jack up your insurance rates that are backing both candidates and want to take me down.”
Action News Jax broke the story of the lawsuit, with Brown saying she “filed a lawsuit” last week.
The former Congresswoman has dealt with fake Quick Picks before, most recently in the 2023 mayoral campaign. She has issued them for decades, once likening them to a “cheat sheet” at a “dog track.”
Dog tracks are long gone, but Quick Picks soldier on. But whether all of them are real or not is another question entirely.
During a press conference Monday, Brown said she was “shocked” by the “fake” Quick Picks, which she said she was alerted to by “several people” recently.
Daniels claimed she was “very uncomfortable” with the fake picks, noting that the lawsuit is a “cease and desist” of the “egregious acts” in the document, and saying listeners should “pray for the mental health” of those involved in the scam.
“The citizens of Duval County deserve better,” Daniels added, claiming she was an “eyewitness” to the fraud.
Daniels said an “investigation will uncover who the mastermind was” of this scheme, and that “Judges and juries” would be the ultimate deciders, as Brown “would never have filed a lawsuit without strong due diligence.”
Nixon must “take a stand under sworn oath” and “prove it in court,” Daniels said, as Brown’s side has a “smoking gun” with “fingerprints,” including a sealed package of these fake endorsements and “testimony” that would come out in court.
Priestly Jackson said she had “never seen a campaign of this nature” in her years in politics, with “untruths, misrepresentations, and fraud” amounting to “disenfranchisement.” She added that she was “honored” by Brown’s endorsement, and said the fake Quick Picks caused “harm” to voters.
“Neighbors have come to rely on this,” Priestly Jackson said of the tip sheet.
Brown was in Congress through 2016, losing her final General Election amid legal struggles related to a charity she ran. Initially convicted on a raft of fraud counts, her conviction was overturned on appeal because the trial Judge discharged a juror that claimed God said Brown was not guilty. Brown then pleaded out to falsifying tax returns in 2022.
