Voters can hear directly from the candidates in two of the more interesting state races 
Tuesday when the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations has its first forum after the August primary.
Former congressman and state rep David “King Nine Lives” Rivera, who won the Republican primary, and former Miami-Dade Police Lt. Robert Asencio, a Democrat, both vying for the House seat vacated by Rep. Frank Artiles move to a senate race, have confirmed, according to an email from KFHA President Michael Rosenberg.
Artiles and incumbent Democrat Sen. Dwight Bullard, who survived brutal primary attacks from carpetbagging trust fund baby Andrew Korge, have also confirmed.
The meting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the pavilion in the Kendall Village Center, 8625 SW 124 Ave.
Expect Rivera to bring up Asencio’s disciplinary file from 2003 in which he grabbed a teenager by the neck and shirt to pull him off a school bus.
Fireworks could fly.
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Dwight Bullard met with foreign terrorists that have ties to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez/Maduro. Not only does he sympathize with foreign terrorists, but he supports groups that support communist dictators.
Dwight should be fired from the legislature, and prevented from teaching our children.
Well, I attended the KFHA Forum and it was, at times, mind numbing albeit worthy of many water-cooler moments. The worst moment was when FL Senator Dwight Bullard defended the BDS, a terrorist-linked, pro-Palestinian, Anti-Israeli organization. During the questions and answers, Senator Bullard was asked why he had been in Gaza photographed with a terrorist that had just completed a 17-year prison term? Bullard’s response was more or less a ‘blah-blah- blah, I-didn’t-realize, I’m-a- nice guy’ kind of campaign response, but it was punctuated with this statement: “I have friends on both sides.” Both sides of what?
Was Bullard a terrorist-sympathizer? The room took on a different feeling. It was if someone sucked all the oxygen out of the room. The sweet little Cuban-American woman sitting behind me gasped. A couple of devout Democrats I knew were shaking their heads. Frank Artiles was looking down, as if studying his hands, and trying not to …. I don’t know ….. grin? Senator Bullard stepped in it, “big league.” I think Frank Artiles is going to be our next FL Senator.
Not satisfied that I understood the context of all this, I Google- and Twitter-searched and did the Wikipedia thing. (Don’t judge me. I’m not a journalist.) I landed with the Israeli Times showing a picture of Bullard sporting his new bushy beard and an Arab K’fiah around his neck. That article laid out the Dream Defenders thing and connected it to Black Lives Matter. A very angry Israeli-American guy showed me a picture of the Senator marching in a parade behind a banner written in Farsi, or Arabic or … I dunno. I believe there was a picture of the Ayatollah. One thing is for sure; it didn’t look very pro-American. Have you seen this picture, Ladra?
Maybe this is just stupidity on Bullard’s part? Admittedly, this was one of my top theories. What kind of parallel universe is he living in to be marching with extremists in a parade behind a banner that looks like something one sees in the nightly news somewhere in Syria? This guy has family that has been public servants. He has a good job as a teacher. What the what?
Then there was the girl. I’ve never seen her at KFHA meetings before. Maybe she was a plant from Bullard’s campaign. She slinked up to the microphone and asked a question. She had that Occupy-something kind of vibe about her like the people at the Black Lives Matters riots that don’t quite fit in. She seemed to be angry with Artiles and she offered a softball question to Bullard. She slipped away before I could get her name.
This all started giving me a creepy feeling. My local, friendly town hall forum was feeling dark and unfamiliar. It also didn’t feel like Senator Bullard was having a Ghandi moment. Apparently I am the last one in town to know all this was going on. I need to keep my head in local politics more.