Carlos Gimenez lies and cheats to keep control of billions

Three times in one week, Miami-Dade Carlos Gimenez‘s secret non-profit has paid for robocalls to tens of thousands of voters saying that Raquel Regalado committed fraud.

It’s a lie.

So is the robocall saying she’s had to pay some elections violation fine. So is the mailer saying the Miami-Dade School Board member has been absent at many meetings.

All lies. Deliberate, malicious lies meant to smear her name and damage her chances.

But these repeated dishonest digs, false as they are, show how desperate Carlos Gimenez has become in his effort to keep the seat that serves as a gravy train to his family and friends. And how far he will go to protect his control of billions of dollars in county spending over the course of the next four years.

Make no mistake: Carlos Gimenez knows these are lies. The property appraiser cleared Regalado of any wrongdoing. An investigator said that there was no intent to commit fraud and that Regalado did not benefit from the Homestead exemption status that mistakenly remained on her home after the bank took possession. So there is no fraud. Gimenez knows that. Ladra dares say he always knew there was no fraud. Just like he knows there is no elections law violation. An inquiry into a bogus elections complaint — its become commonplace, part of regularly scheduled campaign work to file a complaint about something — is not even completed, so there is no fine. At least not yet.

And Regalado has never missed a school board meeting. Not one. She just doesn’t go for all the proclamations in the first hour or so. Who has time for that?

The mayor’s campaign mouthpiece, Jesse Manzano, dared say that the people who are getting the employee of the month award or the school getting the day named after them for their recycling efforts or whatever deserve her attendance. I would say that the people who go to speak at commission meetings about the Pets’ Trust betrayal or the mismanagement of the special taxing districts or other instances in which Gimenez has simply gotten up and walked away would deserve his ear even more.

Manzano is just defending their lies. Because these lies are crucial to the Gimenez campaign. They have nothing else for him to get re-elected on. The Gimenez track record of broken promises, mismanagement and no-bid contracts to family and friends is well documented. So the entire re-election effort is centered around lies that they themselves planted. The story about the property issue was fed to a blogger by them. The blogger was the one that created the issue. The bogus campaign finance complaint that was supposed to stay confidential and was made public days before the election, what a coincidence (not!), is made by them. All of this was planned a long time ago as the crux of their campaign. Since Gimenz can’t defend his own terrible track record as mayor and because he knows that Regalado poses a real threat to his reign of power, he has to turn to the lies and absurd attacks.

Like the mailer that arrived in mailboxes Friday with Regalado’s face morphed into Donald Trump’s. It calls her the “mini Donald Trump Miami-Dade doesn’t need.”

Mini? Wow. Is that another jab because she is a woman?

Ironically, Trump is a client of the mayor’s son. CJ Gimenez has done lobbying for Trump in Doral, where he is still registered as a lobbyist. His boss Freddy Balsera was so happy to represent Trump and the Miss Universe contest last year that he tweeted about it.

The truth is the only mayoral candidate with ties to Donald Trump is Carlos Gimenez.

That was the second mailer making comparisons between Regalado and Trump. This morphed Trump face mailer is funded by an anti immigrant PAC called Leadership for Florida’s future, that also donated more than $180,000 this month to another PAC called Stop Benefits to Illegals Now.

The group also got $184,000 from Citizens Alliance for Florida’s Economy and $105,000 from the Main Street Leadership Council. It’s like one of those PACs that look like they are laundering money through other PACs and you can never trace it back to its original donation.

What’s an anti-immigration PAC doing helping Gimenez?

The other negative mailer likening Regalado to Trump, sent a few days ago, was funded by a mystery corporation created just two months ago and calling itself Committee for Integrity. As if. Florida Division of Corporation records don’t have any names listed behind the nonprofit, just a registered agent service in Tampa. So we don’t know who is paying for the mailers and the dishonest robocalls. Integrity? That’s a joke.

Because the real story is that Carlos Gimenez is the fraud, hiding behind multiple secret nonprofit PACs that smear his opponent while he says on live TV that he won’t say anything mean to a girl. Pfffftt. He is not the man we voted into office in 2011. He has become the crooked politician he used to rail against. Power corrupts, ladies and gentlemen.

Or maybe he was always a fraud, a liar who intended to fleece us the whole time.

Because Gimenez has been lying to the people for years while his son’s construction company gets a $4 million no-bid contract to fix the roof of the performing arts center and, now, his BFF and campaign finance chair has a contract that pays him $200 an hour and could give him $18 million over the course of 12 years. That’s a mil and a half a year for mostly clerical work like filing documents and going to meetings. Soon, you’ll find out that another family member coincidentally got a job (wink, wink, nod) at another subcontractor that got the “public outreach” portion of that same $139-million water and sewer contract that pays his buddy $200 an hour.

All that, folks — unlike the BS spun from the other side — is true.

Raquel Regalado doesn’t have to lie about Carlos Gimenez to get elected. The truth about him is bad enough.

Carlos Gimenez, Donald Trump, Raquel Regalado

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