Brito recall brings Doral drama to a new award-winning high

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Doral exploded alright. And the sparks seem like they will continue to fly for at least a few days.

But it wasn’t, as expected, because of the kinetic energy between the two alpha males — Mayor Luigi Boria and City Manager Joe Carollo. I thought they would get into a mess all by themselves.

Nah. They never stood a chance after the entrance of Vanessa Brito, the gypsy conartist who wants so desperately to be important and influential in politics but only works on subterfuge and lies.

Brito has apparently failed in some very well-promoted attempt to recall newly-elected Councilwoman Bettina Rodriguez-Aguilera — which is something that everyone but her (and her client) saw coming — and is now feigning outrage in order to blame someone else.

In fact, she is also threatening yet another frivolous lawsuit. This time against Doral City Clerk Barbara Herrera, who she basically and publicly accused of stealing petitions.

All this because the county elections department says she only has 1,038 petitions for the recall, not the required 10 percent of the voters, or 1,700. Brito said she delivered 2,000 signatures, more than enough to force the recall. Now she says some have gone missing. Even though she followed Herrera in her own car to the elections department. She says she had scanned them and kept copies of every petition and can prove some are missing. But wouldn’t Herrera or anyone in that position assume that she had made copies? The allegations make no sense. And, based on the source, I would say are baseless.

And then Brito has the nerve to say that Carollo had threatened and Miami Voice, which is basically her y cuatro gatos mas. But while I have no doubt that Carollo can be a hothead who may speak before he thinks, I don’t know if he threatened her or challenged her.

“Joe Carollo has threatened has publicly threatened Miami Voice and myself, and made false accusations regarding the recall process against Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera,” Brito posted on her facebook page. “He said, ‘bring it on’…

See? Seems like a challenge. And a good one. Bring it on, Vanessa. We keep telling you that.

In actuality, Carollo was quoted in the Herald as saying that he had information and possibly documentation that Brito had violated the law in the collection of signatures. “She’s going to have to get a criminal attorney to defend her,” he said.

From his lips to God’s ears.

Because I don’t doubt that she broke the rules. In fact, one woman I know said she was hounded through the parking lot of Navarro by a guy who would not take no for an answer. I wonder how many other people they bullied and pressured to sign.

Brito doesn’t get it.

“Well, Mr. Carollo, if you say I committed criminal violations, then you are calling the voters of Doral criminals – probably at a higher degree, since they were the ones who asked to initiate this process,” she went on to say on facebook in her half-ass illogical way of thinking.

First things first. Really? Really? Who, dare I ask, initiated this process? I haven’t seen any city activists or gadflies involved in this. Nobody has come out to speak for the voters of Doral on any of the TV or press interviews. Just the same old gypsy and the Miami Vice people who are in it for money and/or political machinations.

“Maybe that’s why they were referred to as the ‘mob’ at the last Council meeting when the Recall Defense ordinance was presented without being placed on the agenda or being advertised,” she said. “I tried to pull up the video as proof, but you must have someone editing it as it is incomplete and stops halfway through…”

Among the comments is this one from her severely crushing bodyguard Ivette Lisa Taylor: “Joe Carollo should be the last person to be threatening anyone. He has done a lot of things that are dishonest. He needs to address the politicians that have manipulated the system, the politicians that continue to show their OWN interest and not the interest of the community, the people.”

Really? Really? While I agree that Carollo may not be the most transparent person in the world — especially taking this cushy job after working for Boria’s mayoral campaign “pro bono” — I hardly think that Taylor or Brito can speak for the people. They speak for their politically-motivated client or clients, who we still don’t know who it is.

And lawsuits cost money. Who’s going to fund that?

Vanessa is known for threatening frivolous lawsuits (even against yours truly, but she has no case).

Just as she is known for failing at recall attempts. Remember, she only got the requisite recall petitions against former Miami-Dade Commissioner Natacha Millan, but had tried to get four others on the ballot and could not. And that eventual recall vote was much on the coattails of Norman Braman’s campaign to recall former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez.

Despite the many threats, Brito hasn’t filed one motion against anyone.

In fact, Herrera should file a lawsuit against her for slander after the things Brito said were quoted in El Nuevo Herald — and I’m sure echoed all over the place, because she is good at that and, for some reason, the journalists in Miami have not caught on to her yet. She won’t talk to Ladra because she knows Ladra can smell her scam from a mile away.

So can a few others and that is why she has, however, been sued herself a few times. In one of those lawsuits, filed by North Miami Councilman Andre Williams, Brito was apparently found liable and is having the payment garnished, according to county court records, from a salary that Ladra did not know existed. I’m going to have to get more on that later.

But at least now we may know the impetus for her recall drive. Brito really needs the money.

  Bettina Rodriguez-Aguilera, Doral, Miami Voice, recall, Vanessa Brito