Ralph Garcia-Toledo, the man who went from being Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s driver to being a grossly-overpaid $200 consultant subcontractor on a $140 million water and sewer contract secured by his BFF, the mayor, sure is living the mogul’s life.
Here he is at Joe’s Stone Crabs, enjoying a leisurely lunch, we presume, with two lovely ladies — who work at County Hall.
It’s good to have palanca!
The picture was posted just around noon Thursday by Mary Juncadella Ferreiro, the deputy chief of staff for Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman. She is the one on the left. With the duck lips (channeling Barby Gimenez, are we?).
Ladra is told the other woman — the one on the right without the pouty ducky face — is also a Heyman staffer: Chief of Staff Bonnie Michaels, who looks like she really wanted to be in the picture.
Please notice the likes. I don’t follow Juncadella (mamadukes24), who has a private Instagram account (obviously someone I know does). But you can tell from the screen save that Brian Goldmeier, the mayor’s fundraiser, likes the photo. If lobster and blondes keep the Gimenez campaign finance chair happy, what are we gonna do, right?
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And he can afford it, okay? His contract guarantees him up to $18 million in the next 12 years. What’s a few hundred bucks for a nice dinner with wine and a couple of friends?
Just look at how happy he is! It almost looks like a date and RGT is now divorced from his lobbyist wife, Vicky Garcia Toledo, so we guess it could be. Who’s the third wheel?
Or maybe it was a belated birthday celebration: Garcia-Toledo turned 54 earlier this month.
Bet I know what he wished for: Four more years of the gravy train under Gimenez, which guarantees him lots of lobster in the future.
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