Two different mailers for Andrew Korge arrived in mailboxes Monday, 
a day before the absentee ballots are mailed in Miami-Dade: One was positive and one was negative.
Way negative.
Korge, challenging Sen. Dwight Bullard in the Democratic primary in District 40, basically says Bullard is untrustworthy and living off his campaign funds. The mailer also brings up Bullard’s multiple campaign violations and fines, including a $5,000 fine from May, which, the piece adds, the senator has not paid. It says he has a “nonstop disregard for campaign laws.”
“Bullard’s consulting firm was paid $19,000 from his own campaign,” the mailer states in a series of bullets marked with currency bills. “Bullard’s campaign made more than $14,000 improper petty cash withdrawals.”
The mailer also says that Bullard used his campaign to buy more than 
$1,500 in personal clothing and over $7,600 in food and drink at restaurant and bars, including Hooters and Wet Willies.
That’s something that people have known for a while and it’s something that is not singular to Bullard — or Democrats. Just take alook at State Rep. Frank Artiles‘ reports.
But as far as negative mailers go, this one — with carefully positioned photos of Bullard and flying 100 dollar bills all over — is pretty classic with its brown and black and yellow. In contrast, the positive Spanish-language bio piece is blue and green and orange and includes pictures of Korge with his family and with President Bill Clinton.
These two are the third and fourth, or maybe fourth and fifth mailer from Korge to the Democrat voter in Ladra’s household. We haven’t gotten one mailer from Bullard.
Bullard told Ladra we’d get one this week. 
He, too, was waiting for absentee ballots to drop. “I don’t have $700,000 of my dad’s money floating around. So we waited.”
The senator has told the Miami Herald — and then the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office — that Korge tried to bribe him off the ballot with $25,000 (more on that later) and that the trust fund kid speaks Clintonese when he says “I unequivocally did not offer $25,000 cash.”
He also said he expected that some people to go home today to find the negative hit piece in their mailbox and he was ready to answer questions honestly at the forum tonight.
“I’ll be the first to admit I’ve not been as on time as I should have been,” Bullard said about his violations, adding that he pays the fines from his personal account, not the campaign account.
“I have been negligent. If that’s all they can find on me, that speaks volumes,” Bullard said.
“I’ve always been one of those folks who accepts my misgivings and uses them to learn lessons,” he added. “I just don’t think that my opponent has the same thought process.”
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