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Why Florida House candidate had to campaign from a prison cell

"I spent two years sitting in jail because I couldn’t pay a lawyer $15,000 to investigate my case"
 
Published Nov. 17, 2017

From William March:

Jose Vazquez served a sentence from 2007 to 2009 on a felony charge of repeatedly driving with a suspended license. And he filed as a 2008 state House write-in candidate.

How did all that happen?

Showing documents from a thick folder of court records, Vazquez said in an interview it resulted from a string of problems created by his unfamiliarity with mainland U.S. laws and bureaucracy, plus Florida's Dickensian "punish-the-poor" driver license laws….

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