Gas to drive around to the bigger West Dade and Kendall precincts on Election Day Tuesday: $22.
Bottles of water to stay hydrated: $10.
Lunch at Subway: $8.
The look on Barby Rodriguez-Gimenez‘s face when she 
realized her father-in-law, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, had not won the Miami-Dade mayoral race Tuesday and would be forced into a runoff: Priceless.
It’s almost like she’s saying: “F—! I may have to look for a real f—— job!”
Because Rodriguez-Gimenez has a mouth on her and a juicy no-show job at the county. She does “public outreach” for the water and sewer department as part of the same $139-million contract with CH2M Hill that pays the mayor’s BFF and campaign finance chair, Ralph Garcia Toledo, $200 an hour for clerical work. She got the job with subcontractor EV Services around the same time the company got the contract. You know, like it was criteria or something.
So… if Garcia Toledo’s total payout could equal $18 million over 12 years, what is the total 
payout for the mayor’s daughter-in-law?
Sources have told Ladra that this family botella is being investigated by the authorities. So is Garcia Toledo’s fraudulent use of what are called multipliers to pad invoices when he has no office (it’s a P.O. Box) or staff. We don’t know if that means the State Attorney’s Office or the Commission on Ethics and Public Trust. But it makes sense that it would be looked into. At least if the authorities are doing their job.
Because this rampant cronyism is one of the reasons why a majority voters rejected Carlos Gimenez Tuesday. And the more they learn about him and his friends and family plan — the more relatives and buddies we find feeding on the public trough — the more likely Gimenez will be rejected again in November.
So, yes, Barby, you might want to polish off that resumé and make some calls.
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Hi Ladra,Also please keep everyone informed on all the Tolls all of us are paying all over Miami-Dade County expressways because of Miami-Dade County Mayor Gimenez:RAQUEL needs to really go after Mayor Gimenez for nickel and dimin all of us for all the Corruption in the pay to play arena of Politics !
Gimenez is a very arrogant individual. Anyone who knows him knows this. He thinks he is better and smarter than anyone else for this reason he doesn’t believe he will ever get caught.
The SAO Is Looking The Other Way , And Ethics Is controlled by EL CAO G.K. Sanchez . No Luck in Any Investigation ?
Let us please not forget two tragedies that hurt my heart and were caused by Mayor Carlos Gimenez:
Two fire boats were dry docked due to lack of funding. Yet, only after highly publicized boating deaths did Mayor Gimenez finally realize that if he negotiated with municipalities those boats would be able to be reinstituted. It took an on air yelling match with Jim Defedes to wake him up. After just a few months the partnership died. The Sea Port’s fire team got fully staffed, but only after Gimenez fought the unions for years and drownings.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article9473447.html
February 2015, A Miami-Dade bus driver was crushed by her vehicle because. “More than half of Miami-Dade County transit buses are equipped with alarms to warn drivers when they haven’t engaged the parking brake. But most alarms are broken or disabled — including one on a bus that killed a driver in December.” This was a direct result of lack of mechanics when Mayor Gimenez defunded maintanance throughout the county.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article9304436.html#storylink=cpy
Thanks for reminding us. More examples of Gimenez malfeasance. Voters need to be cognizant of all this. No pro-Gimenez mailers or TV ad buys can scrub away the shame of such negligent leadership.
Impressive connection of the dots. Use the word “Integrity” thoughout our campaign, says the Gimenez coven of spin masters .
Gimenez didn’t bother to cover the money trail because he totally believes in himself and his circle of highly paid consultants Never. Getting. Caught.
Those words should be the campaign sign.
Sir, when you demand YES men, you get lied to.
It makes sense, if you are going to hit the powder then you need to stay hydrated, a tank of gas is not to much to spend running around all day (has not work this hard ever ) and a simple subway for lunch ( what no cookies? ) other wise get ready to move along, the gravy train is broken down. We can also send the message to the Munillas in case they have not heard.
Gimenez and his BFF Ralph Garcia Toledo might be stealing but what about Raquel and her family? None volunteer? All take money from her campaign? WTF?
Which of Gimenez’s campaign spokesmen are you, Money? Because that spin is old an stupid.
Here’s the HUGE difference. Campaign money is not public money. It is not my money. It is not your money (unless you donated to the campaign and even then, it’s not your money any MORE). And the people who gave to Regalado’s campaign don’t have any problem with how she spends it. But Gimenez is giving his friends and family members salaries paid for by OUR MONEY. And it’s MILLIONS of dollars of our money. Please don’t try to compare.
Another fact: Having her brother do her videos and social media not only saves her money (he gives her a deep discount) but also provides her with the ability to do videos on weekends or at 11 p.m. on a Monday night or at 6 a.m. on a Friday morning. The convenience is something you can’t put a price on. Also, he doesn’t charge a couple hundred dollars every time we want to make a revision. You have no idea how nice it is to be able to make changes and not be nickle and dimed to death.
Another fact: Look through the campaign reports of any candidate, even Gimenez, and you will see family members. In South Florida, politics is a family activity. Relatives do a number of things. Sign placement. Canvassing. Events. In some cases, they get “reimbursed” for office supplies or party supplies. Yes, some relatives volunteer. Others provide professional services that should be compensated. What is the problem? Are you jealous?
Can you see the difference now?
Love, Ladra
In order to bring down an incumbent, specially one as entrenched and well financed as Gimenez, you must uncover his weaknesses and bring them up to the voters time and time again. During the course of this campaign, we were inundated with Gimenez’ campaign mail outs that distorted the truth about Regalado and aggrandized Gimenez’ stature. Gimenez is weak in many areas. Hit him where it hurts and you will have your win.
FACTS:
1- in 2012 Gimenez’s campaign was smeared by ABSENTEE BALLOT FRAUD. In 2016 his 62,000 absentee ballots to Regalado’s 38,000 tells us the machine is well oiled and still there. In order to win you must expose Gimenez’s AB operation. Where are the mail outs from Regalado showing the arrest of his boleteras and the Herald articles showing his campaign manager Al Lorenzo under scrutiny? You need to show those because voters have very little memory of past events.
2-People worry about safety. Our police Miami Dade Police department could not get any worst. Gimenez has turned the department into his own security guard force. He disbanded the public corruption unit to ensure no one watched him steal and give away county contracts to friends. How many investigations into county government corruption has MDPD done in the last 4 years? Zero. Hit him there.
3-Gimenez reduced the number of county departments from 52 to 26. He fired, transferred and forced government professionals into retirement and brought in his puppets to cover up his misdeeds. Today, the 26 departments in operation cost more to run than the 52 of four years ago. Where are the savings?
These are just three examples of Gimenez’s vulnerability. There are many more. Unless you hammer this message for the next three months, we will have to put up with four more years of corruption and fraud by the worst mayor to ever be elected to county government.
If so, you oughta run against Rundle for SA next time around. You’d make a great prosecutor in State of Florida vs. Gimenez!
Sadly the SAO isn’t doing anything. These invesitagtions are off limit to investigators. Pushing it off to the ethics insures no criminal charges for these criminals. The fear is if you grab a weak link, he or she would turn information that would lead directly to Mayor Gimenez.
“THOSE OF YOU IN THE GIMENEZ CLAN, THIS GRAVY TRAIN MAKES ITS FINAL STOP AT THE NEXT STATION, NOV. 8. ALL ABOARD, PLEASE BEGIN MAKING YOUR WAY TO THE EXIT DOORS!”