In his bid for U.S. Congress, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo likes to bring out h
is GOP establishment endorsements over and over again and parade them in front of us: Jeb Bush, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, Mitt Romney.
But he has other endorsements or backers — contributors to his campaign coffers — that never make it to his mailers or his press releases. Maybe because he doesn’t feel as proud about them and their felonies, official abuses or falls from grace.
The cast of characters includes:
- Former State Rep. Ralph Arza, the disgraced ex lawmaker, forced to resign in 2006 after he left an expletive-laced, threatening message with racial slurs on a colleague’s voice mail. Arza has been popping up here and there, working behind the scenes on the campaigns of former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina for county mayor in 2011 and Doral Mayor Luigi Boria more recently. Arza, who is also linked to the booming charter school industry, contributed at least $2,650 to Curbelo’s campaign.
- Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez — who admitted to usury as recently as this past
April in federal court in Robaina’s tax evasion trial. Hernandez, who gave $1,000 to the campaign June, was already a known loanshark even before he admitted charging a 36% interest on loans in open court. He’s also a champion of the mafia-run maquinita industry and a violator of first amendment rights who is constantly helping his cronies, retaliating against employees who don’t support his political agenda and has been accused of several quid pro quos on the dais. - Fausto and Remedios Diaz Oliver, millionaires who admitted to and were convicted of tax evasion and customs fraud 15 years ago. The Diaz Olivers hosted a fundraiser for Curbelo, starring Mitt Romney, on Monday night and Remedios contributed $2,600 to his campaign.
- Demetrio Perez, Jr., who pleaded guilty in 2002 to felony charges of defrauding three elderly tenants in his low-income Little Havana apartments. Shortly after he pleaded guilty, a Miami Herald investigation alleged he also pocketed more than $1 million in rent payments from public school funds that were meant to benefit a program for at-risk children. Oh, and he seemed to have a similar racket, er, I mean nice arrangement going on with his Lincoln-Martí charter school in Hialeah. In 2010, the Herald reported that Lincoln Marti paid $744,000 — about a quarter of the school’s $3 million budget — in rent to Perez’s own real estate company. No wonder Demetriquito — who gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from the school board — can afford to give Curbelo at least $5,600 for his campaign.
My mother always said “dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres.” And Ladra finds it a bit disconcerting that a candidate for Congress would count these people as his allies and look the other way as they perform their crimes and/or shenanigans.
What else would he tolerate in Washington?
And the whiny little pinhead has the nerve to attack Rep. Joe Garcia on his absentee ballot fraud scandal and fellow Republican David Rivera for his multiple investigations and alleged but still unproven role into the campaign finance fraud perpetuated by Justin Lenard Sternad? Even Ladra? Really? With that many glass walls in his house?
Curbelo hasn’t called Ladra back to comment on anything since I wrote about him hiding his clients by putting his company, Capitol Gains, in his wife’s name so he wouldn’t have to list them on his financial disclosure forms.
But doesn’t Crybaby seem like the second easiest candidate of the five Republicans in the primary — after embattled former Congressman David Rivera, of course — for Garcia to rip apart in the general election should he even get that far?
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Mamito…You said it better than i have heard it up til now. these Dry Foot Moochers should be turned back at the Mexican border.
And there is not a rafter in the bunch…they all made it to Mexico on a four hour, $10,000 (paid in Miami) fast boat ride then stepped over the US border with No Visa, and their hand out for an average $22,000 a year benefit package.
This cost Florida $640 Million last year alone, to service the 30,000 Dry Footers who settled in Miami after crossing the Mexican border last year.
Way past time to do away with the stupid, and dangerous(who are these people? No Background check, so who knows!)Cuban Adjustment Act which allows this unrestricted entry into the US, for Cubans only.
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Chino, not having paid her would have not made any difference but accusing her of extortion and posing as a journalist that did it. Now he is going to get what he deserves. He may be used to playing in school with kids in the little league now he is playing in the “big league”. I can’t wait for Ladra’s next article.
The embargo? There is no embargo. I went to the airport to drop off a relative early one morning a couple of weeks ago and saw all the “Balseros” in line to go back to Cuba. They had large 50″ tv’s, tools, electronics, and tons of those large bags (gusanos) to take back.
So much for coming here and claiming political asylum from an oppressive government. If you were truly oppressed then why are you going back to spend your food stamp and WIC dollars which you exchanged for cash here? Thank you Diaz Balart and Ros-Lehtinen for those wonderful laws you sponsored on Cuban immigration reform… Not!!!!!
If they were truly afraid and felt oppressed, they wouldn’t be going back. You can see from the lines, they are the Whose Who of the “Balserismo” era. White framed Armani glasses, red Aeropostale shirt, white jeans, white Armani belt, and white pointed shoes. The trademark look of the typical oppressed Rafter 1 year and a day after arriving and returning to “visit” and tell La Familia that they “made it” in America. They just leave out the food stamps and WIC part. Thank you Lincoln and Ileana…
Dr. Peters have you ever heard of “puppets”? Do you think for a minute that Palomares, Martinez, MacDougall or Rivera could ever be anyone’s puppet? I think not. Rest my case.
Chino,
Are you really Carlos Curbelo? Are you part of his camp? Are you like the other politicians? For anybody out there that has not a clue the Diaz-Balarts, Ros-Lehtinan, and other local politicians pretending to be hard lined against the Castro regime to continue the embargo, so local shipping, packaging, and travel companies can have exclusive rights in doing business in Cuba.
Ladra- Isn’t thIs as hypocritical as it can get or then again does it fall in line with how our local politicians manipulate and scheme the elder Cuban community to think they are looking out for them, when in reality they are looking after lining up their pockets.
Que paquete! No pun intended.
This young pup is getting his nose bloodied. He thought he could waltz in with no experience and grab that seat. Remember when we sent an inexperienced socialist to the Oval Office?
…so I still have to wonder how a Mitt or Jeb can be so blind as to be involved with Mr. Curbelo knowing there is this kind of explosive background. I have to believe whoever got them involved went from the A list to the ***t list. It is what happens when you no longer have the trappings you did previously and begin to rely on what you expect is the good will of the “establishment”. So what if the establishment agenda is contrary to good government, for the people and by the people, and has morphed into serving themselves? They uninformed and misinformed endorsers unknowingly fall into the trap of the self servers who have to latch onto a political neophyte they can shape into what they want in the future pointing to the favors they called in on his behalf. Not to take anything away from political cortadito, I just wish the mainstream media would pick up on this and blast it to an unsuspecting and unknowing public.
I guess he should have paid you.
Chino, there is not enough money in the world.
Woof!
Carlos Curbelo, the slimy little snot-nosed brat and political neophyte that he is, loves to throw stones in a glass house. He is over-the-top critical of Joe Garcia and David Rivera (rightfully so) for their scandals, associates and other questionable issues; however, a closer look seems as if it is Curbelo himself that associates with the likes of unethical maggots, has questionable business dealings, has an unimpressive track record as a school board member and hasn’t exactly been very forthcoming.
I voted early and didn’t vote for him. He would be the last person I would send to Congress. Keep on exposing this cry-baby Ladra!