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Texas Dems Traded Votes for Cocaine and Pot

September 3, 2014

Texas Democrats have been arrested by the FBI and accused of buying votes with cocaine, marijuana, beer, and cigarettes.

After an eighteen-month-long investigation, the FBI arrested two political operatives who worked for an unnamed campaign manager.

The FBI has not released whose campaign was involved, but there are only two options: A.C. Cuellar Jr., and Joel Quintanilla. They both claim they never had a campaign manager.

BizPac Review details the sordid case:

Veronica Saldivar and Belinda Solis, known as politiqueras, paid campaign workers, were each given $25 worth of cocaine, the campaign manager admitted, and told to buy votes with them. Their bond was set at $10,000 and if convicted, each could face five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

In the 2012 general election, the campaign manager confessed that he gave Solis $40 in cash and $20 worth of cocaine to entice voters for school board candidates, according to The Monitor.

She told agents that she paid three voters $10 each for their votes in 2012, $5 to her ex-husband, and gave another individual a "dime bag" of cocaine for his vote.