Que se ha creido Carlos Curbelo.
The Miami-Dade School Board member and congressional wannabe actually had the gall to lie and accuse 
Ladra of extortion when he spoke with WPLG’s Michael Putney, one of the most important political reporters in the 305, on the day of my first appearance on This Week In South Florida.
Here was Ladra, so proud to be on what many consider the political show in the 305, finally — tail was practically wagging from the excitement — and Curbelo tries to get me off by making up lies to smear me?
“Elaine, I gotta tell you, Carlos Curbelo got very upset when he learned you were going to be here,” Putney told me on the air, hitting me with a complete surprise, since Curbelo — apparently a great faker — greeted me in the conference room with a smile and a kiss on the cheek.
“He says you were trying to hold him up for money for favorable coverage,” Putney said.
The laughter I shared with Putney, cohost Glenna Milberg and fellow guests Marili Cancio and former Miami-Dade Commissioner Katy Sorenson during the commercial break suddenly seemed long ago.
Wait a minute. Are you serious, Michael?
“He said that you had approached him for a contribution for an ad or something and the implication was that if you bought the ad or he bought the ad that you would give him positive coverage,” Putney explained.
Really, Carlos? Really? You’re going to stoop so low as to actually lie to a journalist in order to hit Ladra’s unblemished credibility and try to get her off his show? Shows a bit of desperation on your part, doncha think?
There’s no crying in baseball and there’s no whining in politics, you petulant little pinhead.
We all know that you told this to Putney Sunday morning in order to try to change the lineup and have me taken off the show. Why else? You didn’t want Ladra there because I could bring up topics you are uncomfortable with. But what you did was basically guarantee that I bring up the topics you are u
ncomfortable with.
The reality is, as I told Putney, the true reason that Curbelo was upset with me is because I have questioned the strength of empty endorsements given without so much as a courtesy glance at the other candidates and because I outed the hosts of his Monday fundraiser as convicted tax cheats and because I was the first news source to report his $35,000 poll that he has kept secret, most likely because he didn’t like the results, and I was the first to report that he found a way to avoid public financial disclosures required of an elected official.
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See? As an elected official who steers billions of dollars in school board contracts, Curbelo is required to disclose the clients he works for at his business, Capitol Gains. The idea — yes, my suggestion — is that they may be benefiting from his elected position and we have a right to know. I mean, that is the very reason these disclosure laws exist. But he found a way to avoid that legally required disclosure by putting his company in his wife’s name and having her pay him a salary. She’s not an elected anything. She doesn’t have to disclose who her clients (read: his clients) are. And she hasn’t worked a day at Capitol Gains.
Is this the kind of shenanigans we want to see in Washington?
The issue had been brought up earlier by Cutler Bay Mayor Ed “Big Mac Daddy” MacDougall, who said 
that the election is about integrity and open government and asked Curbelo point blank who his clients are.
“We’ve had so many people under investigation. We’re going after Joe Garcia … the people need to have open government,” MacDougall said.
“He’s made $250,000 in the last two years through Capitol Gains. Who are his clients? He regulates hundreds of millions, billions of dollars through the school board. He’s a lobbyist. And why is this not coming out,” said Big Mac Daddy, who apparently reads Political Cortadito.
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