Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo, who is already the GOP establishment choice, got some major 
props Saturday from Congressman Greg Walden (R-Oregon), when the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, gave the weekly Republican radio address.
But Walden has apparently fast-forwarded to the general election in which the GOP hopes to unseat Democrat Rep. Joe Garcia in District 26, which has become one of the closest watched races in the country.
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November “cannot come soon enough,” Walden said, mentioning Curbelo along with three other GOP candidates they hope will help them add to their majority in the House. He called the midterm elections — in which fewer Democrats are expected to turn out — a chance for voters to “hold Washington accountable.”
“Something has gone terribly wrong in Washington. And Americans have good reason to be fed up,” Walden said, adding that the election will be about jobs, the economy and Obamacare, which he called “a rolling disaster.”
“But it will also be about holding Washington accountable,” Walden said. “As our campaign chairman, I can tell you our candidates for the House are people just as frustrated as you are. They are leaders who are ready to serve.”
In the address, also available in video on YouTube, Walden highlighted four of the dozen candidates in races they hope to 
flip from Democrat to GOP held seats with their “Drive to 245” campaign launched in May.
“In Florida, there is Carlos Curbelo, a son of Cuban exiles, a Miami-Dade School Board member and a fresh voice Washington sorely needs,” Walden said.
Oooops. I guess he forgot there’s a primary that Curbelo — who is giving away “Back To School” backpacks in West Dade today — has to get through first. Before he can take on Garcia, Curbelo has to beat back the attempts to do just that by Cutler Bay Mayor Ed “Mac” MacDougall, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez, former Congressman David Rivera — who lost the seat to Garcia amid scandalous headlines but is back on the ballot and sorta campaigning but not really — and constitutional attorney Lorenzo “Larry” Palomares Starbuck.
Perhaps Walden, like others in D.C., have been told that Curbelo is a shoe-in, even though the school board member has not released results from a $35,000 poll in June. Which makes Ladra go hmmmmm.
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Oh, and didja notice that “son of Cuban exiles” came first? Did Curbelo help him write that? Or did Walden lift it from Curbelo’s website?
And is anyone going to accuse Walden of pulling the race card?
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