Veronica Diaz lied: Not endorsed by Mayor Tomas Regalado

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Veronica Diaz lied: Not endorsed by Mayor Tomas Regalado
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While she may have some ultra questionable ethics breaches in her past — steering work to her boyfriend and scoring music Veronica Diazfestival tickets for herself — Miami Assistant City Attorney Veronica “Little Miss Ultra” Diaz should be held to a higher level of honesty at least in her judicial campaign.

She certainly shouldn’t be lying about an endorsement from Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado.

A photo posted to her Instagram account July 9th shows Diaz pally-wally with the mayor at some city event and the headline: “City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado endorses Veronica Diaz for circuit court judge.”

Not so fast.

Regalado told Ladra Sunday that he had not and would not endorse anyone in that race, where Diaz is running against former State Rep. and School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla.

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“I am not participating in that race,” Regalado told me in a telephone interview. “I have not signed any document of support. Officially, I have preferred not to get involved in that race.”

Someone better tell Little Miss Ultra, who was “not taking calls today,” according to a woman who answered her campaign phone Sunday afternoon. Because the candidate’s breathless announcement — which sounded sneakily like a press release, and had 36 likes at last count — did not mince words.

“Veronica Diaz is humbled to receive the endorsement and support of city of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. Mayor Regalado has been an exemplary public servant and is an example of the transparent and honest leadership Veronica hopes to offer the residents of Miami-Dade County if she is elected. Veronica is proud to have worked alongside Mayor Regalado for seven years as assistant city attorney and hopes to use the knowledge and experience she has gained from Mayor Regalado as circuit court judge.”

Key words: Transparent and honest. Two things which seem to elude Veronica Diaz, candidate for judge.

First, because of the third party work she gave to the lawfirm of her arguably sleazy boyfriend, Ben Alvarez, which has become the focus of a Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics inquiry that finds that, while no law was broken — if only because the ultra conniving couple aren’t married — “the perception of impropriety is strong,” according to the investigator.
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Secondly, because of an expanding investigation into the gifting of dozens — perhaps hundreds — of Ultra Music Festival tickets to city officials, including Diaz, who got two $850 VIP tickets this year and two or more tickets last year. She thinks she did nothing wrong because she was going to monitor that the agreement she negotiated with festival promoters — arguably one of the worst ever for the city — was being honored. And, you know, she needed VIP company.

Now, this third strike: A blatant lie about an endorsement.

“No. She takes lots of pictures with me at many events,” Regalado told Ladra. “She works in the city and she has been going to the comedores in the last three or four weeks. I introduced her and she said a few words but, officially, I’m not helping the campaign of either candidate.”

Well, he may not know it yet, but he just helped the campaign of Baby DLP, having exposed yet one more example of unethical behavior by our Little Miss Ultra.

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  1. Vernonica Diaz is backed by the corrupt Ana Maria Pando who also works at her fiancé’s firm Alvarez Carbonell. Birds of a feather flock together

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  3. You got it right, Got-A-Point. Veronica Diaz (or Xiques, also a Cuban name) filed to run against incumbent county judge William Altfield but switched to this open seat in circuit court. Tomas Regalado helped her out with fundraisin parties and seemed to be tacitly, if not outright expressly, supporting her. She’s been going around telling voters that she is being endorsed by Regalado for a while. Now, Regalado backtracks afterhis nemesis Manny “Money” Diaz and Francis Suarez endorse her and put him in an uncomfortable position. I wouldn’t be surprised if Suarez and Diaz endorsed her just to have some fun at Regalado’s expense. The coomon denominator here is the last name “Diaz”. I wonder how that’s going to play out in the election with so many Diaz’s involved, so many elderlyvoters that can get confused and all the strong political empotions, that for better or worse, the name Diaz brings forth.

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  4. I am one that hate sleazy lawyers like Veronica “I changed my name Xiques to get the Cuban Vote” Diaz. However, we all know that there is nobody more sleazier than Mayor Thomas Regalado. Lying is also his specialty. In this case, I know people who have told me that he commited to endorsing Ms. Veronica “Ethically Challenged” Diaz early in the race before DeLaPortilla jumped into it. Furthermore, Mayor Thomas “Descarado, Corruptado” Regalado also did not like the fact that Veronica got endorsed by his long-time nemesis and political foe Manny Diaz. So he decided to back track on his endorsement to avoid falling into a quarrel with the DeLaPortilla’s and to punish Veronica for siding with Manny Diaz.

    Veronica, how many people have you screwed over for drafting your worthless pieces of legal opinions, so you could only curry favors later on from those very politicians who have benefited from your issued legal opinions?

    Now it is your time to get played in the same way you played the taxpayers by not protecting them with your bogus legal opinions in order to line up the pockets of the Commissioners you served.

    SWEET JUSTICE INDEED!

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  5. Wow! This chic is on a roll. She should be ashamed of herself to try to used Regalado’s name to get votes. Not only is she ethically challenged, dishonest, a party animal and now a liar!! Veronica does NOT deserve to be a judge!!

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  7. If you look at her campaign disclosure forms, she has “loaned” her campaign $40K of the $92K she reports, not a good sign. Baby DLP is way ahead in fundraising and in name recognition. And since she’s campaigning during her working hours as an assistant county attorney, it makes you wonder whether this was an “up or out” move by the new City Attorney — a chance to leave the office with dignity before being forced out.

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