As expected, Annette Taddeo makes Congress her fourth try

Extra, extra! Stop the presses! Annette Taddeo is running for Congress!

Really? Is this news?

Taddeo made the official announcement Monday morning but already over the weekend, bloggers were abuzz about it. Why? What else is she going to do? She had to run for something. It’s like a bad habit already.

A perennial candidate, Taddeo — who has run three times unsuccessfully — apparently wants to be a professional campaigner.

Who did not see this coming? After all, beating one-term Congressman Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo, who only beat former Congressman Joe Garcia last year because the latter was in the midst of a scandal,is probably the best shot yet she’s got at getting elected to something, anything. And the former chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party been preparing for it almost as soon as losing her last race in November, meeting with fundraisers and Democrats in D.C.

Taddeo’s announcement positions her as “a small business owner and a working mom who has lived in South Florida for over 30 years.”

What it doesn’t say is that she just came off a loss as the lieutenant governor running mate for former Gov. Charlie Crist. That was her third strike. The one before that was a county commission race in 2010 where she didn’t even get in the runoff. And the time before that was also a congressional run, against U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

She’s either tenacious or delusional.

“As she built her company into one of the top small businesses in the country, Annette worked hard, pressed on through setbacks, and never gave up fighting for the issues she believed in. In Congress, she’ll use that same perseverance to advocate for her constituents – no challenge is too big and she will never let partisan politics get in the way,” her statement says, adding that LanguageSpeak, her translating services company, has been named one of the top 100 small businesses in Florida and one of the top 500 small businesses in the United States.

The rest of the announcement was like a soundbite soundtrack. Count the buzz words and phrases. I count at least 10:

“From Key West to Homestead – from Kendall to Marathon – people have told me they want a representative who will advocate for the values and unique needs of our diverse South Florida community. I’m running to make sure that everyone in South Florida gets a fair shot to succeed.”
“Right now, too many hard-working families are facing unfair burdens that keep them from a chance at the American dream, but Congress just doesn’t get it. When Washington gets caught up in dysfunction, it affects small businesses and families right here in South Florida.
“Having worked minimum wage jobs, juggled child-care, and felt the pressure of balancing the books and making payroll – I understand the struggles South Florida families are going through right now. And having built a successful small business from the ground-up, I know what it takes to overcome the odds, bring people together, and get results.
“I want to use my experience in small business and our community to get things done for South Florida and be a voice for all of us in Congress.

Look, Ladra wants to take out the whiny little conflict-of-interest loving, client-hiding, fence-straddling, lie-to-your-face Curbelo just as much as anybody in the Democratic Party. Maybe more. But I just think voters have told Taddeo time and again that they don’t like her cup of Colombian coffee.

Is it going to change now that she is such an obvious carpet bagger?

Annette Taddeo, Carlos Curbelo

As expected, Annette Taddeo makes Congress her fourth try added by Ladra on April 6, 2015
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