But they didn't say anything - likely because he was "one of them" (a Democrat)... not that Republicans don't do the same thing (Donald Trump sound familiar?)

Tribalism in politics leads to terrible things... witness current state of politics (whether you want that to be Trump or Biden doesn't matter - they're both awful)

Of course, people knew.

This is what happens when political parties DON'T do the proper investigations of their candidates!

This dude was only a few hundred votes shy of being the Governor of Florida! (We got Ron DeSantis instead - so we're still mostly a shit-show of incompetence! But that's been Florida for DECADES now! There's a REASON Trump relocated here after his presidency: he's among friends here - CRAZY people are as common as green grass & palm trees here!)

He had previously been the mayor of Tallahassee (the State Capitol, but a very small town still). Surely SOMEONE knew of his predilection for hard drug use and male prostitutes from back then?