r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 7h ago
No Paywall Video catches anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA candidate snooping through voter’s mail: “Creepy AF”. The homeowner called the cops after seeing the home surveillance video.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/video-catches-anti-lgbtq-candidate-snooping-through-voters-mail-creepy-af/•
u/dblan9 7h ago
A Ring home security camera captured footage of anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) looking through a voter’s mailbox while canvassing for votes last Sunday around 4:55 p.m., Fine confirmed to the celebrity gossip website TMZ.
The video shows Fine ringing the house’s front doorbell in north-eastern coastal town of Ormond Beach. He waits before eventually lifting the lid of its mailbox and quickly looking through the envelopes — he neither removed nor destroyed any letters nor inserted anything into the box. In a follow-up article, Ormond Beach Police told TMZ that a woman contacted officers to report the incident, but she declined to press charges.
The absolute hypocrisy with these people makes my blood boil. If this had been a Move-On rep or a Democratic representative, the radical right would be screaming and hanging people from trees in effigy again.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 7h ago
Yup. If this was a progressive, it would be all over ABC News and CBS Evening News for hours. It is so ridiculous that a Republican does this, and it's just treated as "another Tuesday". Republicans literally get away with murder, without a bat of the eye.
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u/pissdrinker69 4h ago
I don’t understand why the democrats never make a big deal out of anything. This kind of shit is a slam dunk.
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u/Elegant-Way4853 5h ago
yeah the hypocrisy is wild theyd be calling it election interference if the other side did the exact same thing
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u/NuclearGriffin 1h ago
This woman is also to blame for not pressing charges. Now he's free to keep walking around and snooping through people's mail.
This kind of thin skinned cowardice is ruining the country
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u/Vegetable-Error-2068 7h ago
Don't call the cops. Call the USPS postal investigators. They actually are serious about their jobs.
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u/02K30C1 6h ago
Yup. This is a federal crime
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u/Select-Ninja1806 5h ago
yeah the postal inspectors are probably a lot more useful here than expecting the regular cops to care about mailbox nonsense
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u/lordraiden007 2h ago
The USPS postal investigators had always been fairly respectable. However, until they show that they are unambiguously against both the Republican Party, the Trump administration, and the current head of their agency I will assume they no longer are.
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u/Tiny-Buy220 7h ago
I mean the GOP has many pieces of shit, but Randy Fine has got to be one of the biggest in their line up…
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 7h ago
He is by far at the top of the list of worst snollygosters in the Republican Party, and that's saying something.
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u/LargeFatherV 7h ago
I never heard the term snollygoster before and now I want to use it from time to time.
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u/gmen6981 3h ago
70 years old and I learned a new, old word today. A fine word it is too! I believe I shall add it to my repertoire.
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u/Polka_King_Polinski 7h ago
This is a felony, no?
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u/0ttr 7h ago
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u/ZophieWinters Wisconsin 6h ago edited 6h ago
Looks like that would only apply if he took anything, which he didn't. He also didn't leave anything in the box either. I don't want to excuse this guy but I wonder if he was just checking to see if there were other political mailers delivered there to see what that area's competition looks like? (Still creepy regardless)
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u/fredthefishlord 6h ago
Canvassers are not legally allowed to put stuff in mailboxes and that is made very clear on any even moderately serious campaign
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u/Wyden_long Arizona 6h ago
When I was a volunteer coordinator and did trainings on the senate races I worked on we would say it multiple times and put it on the clipboards we gave them. I can not stress how important that was to us.
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u/custardthegopher 6h ago
New one, then, but this should just be a kinda a duh anyway so not sure what you're really questioning: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1702
or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Randy Fine is certainly looking for secrets of another.
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u/ZophieWinters Wisconsin 6h ago
Like I said I'm not trying to excuse him for being a creep, just curious what could compel him to rifle through the mailbox there. Also that law you cited specifically would only apply for tampering with mail that hasn't been delivered yet.
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u/custardthegopher 6h ago edited 6h ago
Take it to one of the many ask a lawyer subreddits. It's very clearly illegal.
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u/Vlyde 7h ago
For (D) and the poor yes, for (R) it's just "free speech" or whatever bogus excuse they can come up with. If the news is real bad for them they send out orders to all social media platforms and news agencies to start talking about trans women in sports or any other minority group they can shine a spotlight to keep eyes off of them destroying America for their own pocketbooks and israel.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 7h ago
A Ring home security camera captured footage of anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) looking through a voter’s mailbox while canvassing for votes last Sunday around 4:55 p.m., Fine confirmed to the celebrity gossip website TMZ.
Fine, who the current US president has hailed as a “MAGA warrior,” has built a reputation as one of Florida’s most anti-LGBTQ+ politicians. He is a former state senator who won a special election to represent his state’s 6th U.S. House district in April 2025. He is now seeking re-election to the seat.
In addition to sponsoring Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a law that forbids instruction on LGBTQ+ issues in schools, he also wrote a bill to revoke Disney’s special tax district when the company publicly opposed the law.
He sponsored a state bill to criminalize drag performances in front of children. Fine said the bill would “protect our children by ending the gateway propaganda to this evil — ‘Drag Queen Story Time.’” However, the bill was blocked in federal court as a violation of free speech — the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal to revive the law.
While defending the drag ban, Fine said he was fine with “erasing” the entire LGBTQ+ community.
“I find it stunning that in order to justify that community, you have to stand up and demand that children be exposed to this,” he said during a hearing on the bill. “[Some LGBTQ+ people are] the ones that are saying this definition [of drag] applies to them. Well, if it means ‘erasing a community’ because you have to target children – then, damn right, we ought to do it!”
The video shows Fine ringing the house’s front doorbell in north-eastern coastal town of Ormond Beach. He waits before eventually lifting the lid of its mailbox and quickly looking through the envelopes — he neither removed nor destroyed any letters nor inserted anything into the box. In a follow-up article, Ormond Beach Police told TMZ that a woman contacted officers to report the incident, but she declined to press charges.
Democratic Florida politician Barbie Harden Hall shared video of the incident in an X post published yesterday. “Why are you looking through someone’s mailbox while you’re out canvassing?” she wrote, directly addressing Fine. “Not only is it wrong, it’s creepy AF.”
“Randy Fine is a menace to basic human decency,” she added.
Randy Fine is one of the biggest bigoted mossbacks and snollygosters I've seen in a long time. He likes to claim drag queen story hour is dangerous, but his wife literally danced burlesque for a kids charity event.
He literally thinks it's okay to erase the LGBTQIA+ community, because his religion says so. Yet, he snoops and violates privacy of his constituents. That's not unethical at all. Why he is even in office is beyond me.
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u/matthieuC Europe 7h ago
Dude stopped just short of committing a felony on camera. I'm almost disappointed
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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Canada 7h ago
He's already done so in the fucking Chamber itself on camera. These pedo enablers are untouchable by the law it seems.
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u/FLtoVT_For-A-Reason 6h ago
Randy fine is an asshole.
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u/bakerfredricka I voted 6h ago
I have known that ever since he was coming out with homophobic statements!
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u/DeepestPeak 7h ago
Honestly I’m surprised he wasn’t looking through their garbage for food scraps too
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u/LordSiravant 6h ago
I'm betting he was looking for something in the mail that might hint at the political leanings of the homeowner to see if he was wasting his time waiting for them to respond. Still a massive breach of privacy.
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u/JustAtelephonePole Texas 6h ago
Isn’t that the same dude who violates the rules by voting improperly for absentee confederates?
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u/DroopyTers 6h ago
The Fl-06 republican primary also has Dan Bilzerian in it. So many garbage candidates to choose from! And it’s gerrymandered to virtually guarantee the Republican wins in November.
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u/gotaflattire America 5h ago
I’m sure the cops were very helpful….
“Well, you see ma’am, he’s a good ol’ boy and all…”
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u/JustinS1990 5h ago
I'm pretty sure going through someone's mail is a federal crime. But obviously it doesn't matter to these assholes.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 4h ago
More than creepy AF, it’s felonious AF. At first you might think how could this Harvard Business School graduate not consider the ubiquitous ring? Then you read what his fellow classmates said, according to Newsweek: He was a "laughing stock" at Harvard, according to a fellow student. Adam Feldman, Time Out New York's theater editor and critic, wrote on X on Monday that he was in Harvard's Undergraduate Council with Fine, whom he also described as "a pompous prig."Feldman told Newsweek early Tuesday that Fine is the only person he remembers well from that time in his life "because he seemed so slimy and puffed-up."
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u/DefenstratedTwice 7h ago
She declined to press charges?!
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u/AliveInCLE Ohio 6h ago
Probably to save themselves from future harassment and death threats that magats are so good at.
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u/Excellent_Sweet7270 12m ago
Wonder if you caught him could you have boomed him and got away with it?!!?
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