'Deceiving the voters': Florida Republican's campaign threatened by fellow GOP member

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has been hit with a new lawsuit alleging that he is ineligible for re-election because his campaign documents weren't filed properly.

According to MS NOW's Mychael Schnell, Mills' GOP primary challenger Michael Johnson "recently filed a formal legal complaint alleging Mills improperly notarized his candidate documents — and Johnson wants a judge to strike his fellow Republican from the Florida primary ballot."

Johnson's complaint claims "that Mills was in Washington, D.C., when he completed the documents, using fellow Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube’s chief of staff, Alejandro Blair — who’s a Florida notary — to verify the paperwork," wrote Schnell — which would be a violation of Florida law, which requires any documents filed for office there be notarized by someone licensed in the jurisdiction where they perform the service.

Since Blair is a Florida notary, and not a D.C. notary, but notarized the documents in D.C., the complaint argues, the campaign documents are invalid.

The complaint provides evidence that Mills was on Capitol Hill on June 4, the day his documents were notarized, as "the House Armed Services Committee — of which Mills is a member — marked up its version of the annual defense policy bill on June 4 ... and according to a log of the markup, Mills was present for committee votes, which started just before 2:10 p.m. and ended around midnight."

“This is just another example of Cory Mills deceiving the voters of this congressional district,” Johnson told MS NOW. “Everyone in this district encourages Cory Mills to resign. It’d be an ironic end if the thing that takes him down is a paperwork error.”

Mills has faced a series of other scandals, including allegations he committed domestic violence against a partner at his D.C. residence.