Stolen election? Look no further than Senate District 37 in Coral Gables

Stolen election? Look no further than Senate District 37 in Coral Gables
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If people want to see a stolen election, a real stolen election, they need to stop looking at the presidential race and check out Florida Senate District 37, where an unknown plantidate helped the GOP cheat.

What’s more: It looks like it’s not the only race has a fake candidate propped up by unknown sources in an order to throw the results.

For real.

While allegations of voter fraud from Donald Trump are all over the map and lawsuits were being dismissed left and right — 0 for 10 so far as of Wednesday — it is becoming increasingly apparent that NPA Alex Rodriguez was planted in the state senate race to syphon votes away from Democrat incumbent Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez.

So that’s why Ileana Garcia is winning.

The planted candidate is NPA Alex Rodriguezque coincidencia que he has the same last name (wink, wink) — who peeled away 6,376 votes which are suddenly very relevant in the midst of a manual recount with a 28-vote lead between Garcia and the other Rodriguez. The real Rodriguez.

Ladra suspected earlier but we know Alex Rodriguez is a plantidate for sure now thanks to WPLG Local 10’s intrepid Glenna Milberg, who not only found that he didn’t live at the Palmetto Bay home on his qualifying papers, but also that he was registered a Republican recently.

Shocking! Like that never happens here (read: always).

Then she found him. Only Glenna didn’t know it yet because he told her he was somebody else!

“But wait. There’s more,” Milberg wrote on her Facebook page. “Senate candidate Alex Rodriguez not only lied on his candidate filings, he lied to us! Thanks to a tip tonight, we learn the guy in our report who claimed to be a business partner is, yes … Alex Rodriguez.”

These side by side photos of Alex Rodriguez. The right is from the WPLG broadcast and the left is from Alex Rodriguez’s own Facebook page — on which, by the way, there is nary a mention of a senatorial campaign. Lots of football. Zero politics. Zip. Nada.

It certainly is curious. And easy to investigate.

“We’re focused on the recount,” said Christian Ulvert, J-Rod’s campaign consultant. “But there’s no doubt a growing number of voters in that district who are deeply concerned with what has come to light.

“We have always said that he is a shill candidate. The Republicans, no doubt, funded two candidates in this race,” Ulvert sad, adding that the campaign actually designed and mailed a piece to voters explaining that there was another Rodriguez in the race trying to confuse them.

“We knew from the minute he filed, because we’ve seen this playbook before. It’s all about voter suppression and confusion and the results, we see right now, show that some of that worked,” Ulvert told Ladra.

“And now we learn that there could be a deeper coordinated effort to deceive voters.”

He means Celso Alfonso, the NPA who ran in Senate District 39, where former State Rep. Ana Maria Rodriguez beat former State Rep. Javier Fernandez for the seat vacated by Anitere Flores. Alfonso also “loaned himself” $2,000 and didn’t fundraise and only paid his qualifying fee — same as Alex Rodriguez. Milberg talked to the 81-year-old — who was also recently a Republican — and the interview is quite, well, weird.

“Who paid for your flyers,” she asks him.

“I don’t have any flyers,” he says.

“Yes. You do. Who paid for them?”

“Well, we did. We have like $2,000 that we put on it.”

“So you paid for your own flyers?”

“Right.”

“But that’s not on your expense report.”

“No. No, I’m sorry.”

Anyone with two eyes and a brain can tell that Alfonso is lying. He doesn’t have any idea about any flyers. He has no idea how much it costs to send them. And he will lie to Glenna but will he lie to a prosecutor under oath?

Can we please find out? Because that’s what should happen next.

It doesn’t matter that Alfonso didn’t really impact that race. He got only 2,605 votes and Ana Maria Rodriguez, a former Doral councilwoman, beat Fernandez by 21,690 votes. What matters is that Alfonso and Alex Rodriguez were almost certainly recruited by the same person or people or entity in order to circumvent reporting laws.

They both filed and qualified at the last minute in June. They both have done zero campaigning on their own, allowing a political action committee called Our Florida — located at the Greenery Mall in Kendall, same place but a different suite number as Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade County PAC.

Our Florida got one contribution of $370,000 on Oct. 2 from one company, the Atlanta-based Proclivity, which says it is in the “social welfare” industry, and spent it all on Advanced Impressions LLC on Oct. 5, probably for mailers that seemed to provide progressive messages — climate change, police reform — to attract Democrat minded voters.

Fun fact: Our Florida is located at Kendall’s Greenery Mall, same place but a different suite number as Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade County, which is another mystery PAC, this one operated by Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla.

Prosecutors and investigators need to swoop in right now and question everybody and subpoena bank records and phone records. This was a concerted effort to thwart several Democrat aspirations.

This is what a stolen election looks like.