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MAGA Congressman caught on camera committing ‘strange’ act (rifling through a voter's mail) at stranger’s doorstep: report (www.rawstory.com)

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“Florida Congressman Randy Fine was going door to door looking for votes ... and somehow ended up rifling through a voter's mail,” TMZ reported Tuesday.

In a video that has since gone viral, a man who TMZ identified as Fine can be seen ringing the homeowner’s doorbell before stepping toward a mailbox mounted on the porch wall. The man identified as Fine stands mostly still for about 15 seconds before opening the mailbox and rifling through envelopes.

While TMZ definitively declared that Fine's conduct did not run afoul of federal law that prohibits tampering with another person’s mail, other critics weren’t so sure.

Susan Acevedo, for instance, a Californian political strategist and candidate for San Jacinto City Council, argued that merely touching someone else’s mail could constitute a crime, and urged her more than 38,000 followers on X to contact law enforcement about the incident.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's a federal crime, messing with someone's mail.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Mmm not so much no. The closest language in 18 U.S. Code § 1708 is abstraction which there's no evidence of and would difficult to prove anyway.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I know it's Randy Fine but "MAGA man commits felony" is a guessing game on Insane difficulty. It could literally be any one of them atp. The GOP has openly been a criminal organization for at least a decade.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Where does he live? Lets go check his mail. It's legal.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 hours ago

He thought he was turning off the cameras, so he knew he shouldn't get caught.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Florida's REPUBLICAN Congressman Randy Fine.

He's ashamed to be who he is.

Vote BLUE no matter WHO.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Florida even.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I guess the headline could have read, 'MAGA Congressional Florida Man...'

[+] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Although this would happen in florida, I still gotta take this down.

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, I didn't realize that having one of my comments removed by moderator would make it so that I couldn't even see what I wrote, unless it's just my client. Fair enough though, your rules and such.

It just seems incredibly foolish to me to be one of the politicians that's contributing to the sort of irrational fear that would lead to that kind of a response and then go door to door knocking on the doors of people who may have that fear and response, in a place where that has happened to delivery drivers and wrong turn drivers, but I suppose foolish and arrogant is a prerequisite to running for his office.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Huh, I didn’t realize that having one of my comments removed by moderator would make it so that I couldn’t even see what I wrote,

That's one of the few things I very much dislike about Lemmy. You can still look it up in the modlog, though (unless instead of merely just removing the comment, you get banned entirely and the mod checks the "remove content" button, in which case everything you ever wrote is just gone with no record at all).