Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon's campaign paid a Jacksonville auto body shop owned by Nixon's brother-in-law $6,795 for "vehicle wash & road services," according to campaign finance records filed this month and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The only "road service" the shop provides is towing for a $150 flat fee.
Nixon's campaign had weeks earlier paid the same brother-in-law $2,500 for "event meals," making the payment to his catering company, which has no website and hasn't updated its Facebook page in nine years.
The auto repair shop, which Nixon's campaign paid for the services in earlier September, is called Quick Fix Collision and is located in the Riverview neighborhood of northern Jacksonville, about a 20-minute drive from Nixon's house. The modest shop is owned by Nixon's brother-in-law Frank Morene, according to state business filings. Those filings identify Morene as the CEO and owner of the shop.
While it is unclear what "road services" Quick Fix provided the campaign, the only road service advertised on the shop's website is towing. When a Free Beacon reporter contacted Quick Fix, a representative said the shop offers towing services for a flat fee of $150 and offers those services free of charge for vehicles it transports back to its garage for body work. That is a far cry from the thousands of dollars it charged Nixon's campaign.
Other types of road services include battery jump starts, battery replacements, flat tire changes, winching, and fuel deliveries, all of which cost hundreds, not thousands, of dollars. In addition, a high-quality detail or wash service typically costs hundreds of dollars at most in the Jacksonville area.
The Free Beacon contacted both the Nixon campaign and Morene about the expenditures, but neither responded.
The expenditure raises questions about Nixon's campaign finance management and whether she is using her campaign funds to improperly benefit family businesses. Under federal law, candidates are allowed to employ their family's businesses for legitimate campaign-related expenses but must pay fair-market value for services in most cases "to avoid the value being considered an impermissible contribution," according to a congressional memo on the permissible uses of campaign funds.
It's notable because it's not the first time Nixon's campaign has paid a business run by Morene. Three weeks before the payment to Quick Fix, the campaign paid K&K Mobile Food, a catering service owned by Morene and other members of his family, $2,500 for event meals, the campaign records show.
K&K Mobile Food doesn't have a website, and its most recent Facebook post came in 2017, nearly a decade ago. In one of its most recent posts, the company shared a video of a "dance battle" at what appears to be a birthday party for Nixon years before she first ran for office.
"Treating campaign coffers like a personal bank account has long been a siren song for career politicians who often have scant income and find piles of campaign cash irresistible," said Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the watchdog group the Capital Research Center.
"The payments made to her brother-in-law's tow garage and catering companies certainly have the appearance of self-dealing and further investigation to make sure Nixon's donor funds aren't being misappropriated might be warranted," Thayer added.
Nixon, meanwhile, has been quick to complain that she doesn't have enough money to run ads because her campaign "is powered by working families, not billionaires." And she has repeatedly slammed her opponent, incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody, for alleged corruption, recently calling her a "lying, cheating, scheming, scamming" politician and saying she should be incarcerated.
It comes amid a series of questions surrounding Nixon's personal finances. The Free Beacon reported earlier this month that, since she announced her candidacy in January 2026, Nixon has raked in $70,000 in wages from a nondescript firm tied to her campaign treasurer and a labor union she helped lead.
And in September, the Free Beacon reported that Nixon—whose income is five times that of a typical American—has seen her personal income skyrocket in the last few years, while a nonprofit she founded has simultaneously seen a significant uptick in revenue. That nonprofit, the Jacksonville-based Moxie Group, has classified most of its expenses under the "other" category on state filings but failed to file federal tax forms that were due last year and would have shed more light on its expenses.
In 2024 fundraising solicitations, Nixon claimed money raised for her nonprofit would support the operation of her newly opened "Cafe Resistance" bookstore in Jacksonville. But when Nixon opened the shop later that year, she placed it under the control of her for-profit LLC, which is also called the Moxie Group.
In response to that September report, an ethics watchdog on Tuesday filed a complaint with federal and Florida state agencies alleging that Nixon has violated multiple laws, including wire fraud laws related to the management of her nonprofit. "Ms. Nixon and any of her accomplices should be criminally prosecuted for committing this fraudulent solicitation scheme," the complaint stated.
Following a visit to Nixon's "Cafe Resistance" in August, meanwhile, the Free Beacon reported that the store—a squat cinderblock structure situated in the parking lot of a strip mall in Jacksonville's downtrodden Sherwood Forest neighborhood—is black-power-themed and contains a shrine to black convicted cop-killers. Moody and Republicans have made the shrine a central focus of the campaign.
