Carlos Curbelo’s latest excuse: The wicked ‘glitch’ did it

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“With 3 days left until the election, it’s no surprise that lobbyist Carlos Curbelo failed to disclose almost $100,000 In special interest PAC contributions from outside groups who are propping up his campaign and have little regard for South Florida,” said Garcia campaign spokesman Miguel Salazar.

“This is nothing new for Mr. Curbelo who has already shown he has a history of putting himself before the people of South Florida — using his position as a school board member to approve contracts for campaign donors, refusing to disclose his lobbying client list and saying one thing in South Florida and then going to Washington and calling Social Security and Medicare a ‘Ponzi-scheme.’”

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Hmmmm. Let’s take a closer look at this most recent reason not to vote for Curbelo, even if you have to leave that box on the ballot blank, and why his lame excuse should fall on deaf ears:

The campaign’s Oct. 15 report had a total of $40,500 new contributions from 10 PACs, including the House Conservatives Fund and the American Medical Association. Bland. The new and improved campaign report filed last week has a total of $133,000 in contributions during the same time period and the source goes from 10 PACs to 50 PACs. And Curbelo is going to tell us that nobody noticed this?

Really? Really? That means that, at best, Curbelo is sloppy and disorganized and doesn’t notice the difference between $40,000 and $130,000 and, at worst, he’s hiding something. Again.

More likely it is the latter because there were contributions he’d rather not have us know about until it’s too late. Like contributions from super-conservative sources and some controversial ones like $5,000 from Koch Industries and former Congressman Allan West. Can you imagine the mailers that Garcia’s camp could have done with enough time?

Ladra thinks there’s still enough time for a robocall and suggests it. In fact, here is a draft of a script, for free because Crybaby deservers it. You add the disclaimer yourself. Because this, as much as Curbelo would love to believe it is, is not a paid ad.

“Carlos Curbelo thinks he can fool us.

First, he hides his client list by transferring his lucrative lobby firm into his wife’s name.

Then, he tells us he didn’t mean it when he called Social Security and Medicare a Ponzi scheme.

Now, he wants us to think he just forgot to report almost $100,000 of special interest money in his last campaign report. But everybody knows he just wanted to report it late after most people had already voted through absentee or early voting.

Tsk, tsk, Mr. Curbelo. Is fooling voters the only way you can get elected?”

Use a woman. Do it in Spanish also. And hurry up and record today. You want to start calling voters tomorrow.

You can thank Ladra later.

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  Carlos Curbelo, Congressional district 26, Joe Garcia