Relentless for Progress has $1.4 million to spend on propaganda to push the agenda for 
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, who want to elect a slate of pocket commissioners to do their bidding.
But they can’t afford a proofreader?
A video posted on the web Tuesday by the political action committee — which has come under fire because Levine and Wolfson have solicited contributions from vendors, contractors and developers with special interests in the city — has a glaring typo.
The PAC is trying to say that Commissioner Deede Weithorn is losing sleep due to a guilty conscience. But it says “guilty conscious.”
Dude! Really? Someone ought to get fired. I nominate David Custin. He’s made enough money off you guys already.
The rest of the video is almost as laughable, a desperate attempt to slam the one elected on the Beach who first raised questions about RFP, which coincidentally has the same acronym as the requests for proposals that cities issue for capital projects and services.
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Weithorn, by the way, is termed out and not running for the mayor’s seat (although I told her she should, but that was before someone else did). Her husband is running for commissioner against the Levine/Wolfson handpicked candidate, but Ladra thinks this video is more of a personal jab than a campaign stunt. Wolfson is after Weithorn’s head precisely because she’s the one who got all this negative attention on him and his shady PAC in the first place. The video makes no mention of Mark Weithorn but uses a clip of Commissioner Deede from a July 8 meeting where she raised concerns about the PAC’s apparent conflict of interest and ethics issues.
Because she has a conscience. And because she is conscious.
“What bothers me is the dollars that are going to these PACs instead of going to benefit us as residents and lower our costs of contracts,” Weithorn says. “That’s what keeps me up at night.”
Then a female narrator with a scolding tone in her voice enters. “But that’s not the whole story. While Deede Weithorn says it’s wrong for city lobbyists to make political contributions, she’s taking money from them anyway, for her political campaign.”
In an email to promote the video, Jonah Wolfson says “Just like you, Relentless for Progress expects honesty and transparency from our elected officials. That’s why when we see hypocrisy from a politician who we voted to represent us, we stand against it. Miami Beach Commissioner Deede Weithorn is running for Florida State Representative and, like many politicians, she doesn’t want to tell us the whole truth about her political campaign.”
Then the video goes back to her chorus line: “That’s what keeps me up at night.”
Weithorn has raised a total of $11,500 for her state House campaign in 2016. There are two lobbyists among the 13 contributors but it is unknown if they have business interests in the city — although she can take those contributions, especially since she will no longer be on the dais to give them any quid pro quo, like Levine and Wolfson are.
But her 13 contributions, none over the $1,000 limit, cannot possibly be compared to the multiple $100,000 checks that folks with business before the city of Miami Beach have given to Wolfson’s shady PAC — which I think is what is keeping us all up at night.
“Maybe what is really keeping Deede Weithorn awake is a guilty conscious,” the video states, with the classic gaffe. “We need honest government. We don’t need Deede Weithorn.”
No, actually, what you need is someone who knows the difference between conscious and conscience.
Or maybe someone with a conscience. But that might be asking too much.
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