More dishonest tactics from an increasingly desperate Miami-Dade incumbent Commissioner Lynda Bell?
Among the poll workers who showed up at some of the polling locations in District 8 Tuesday were paid burly men wearing black t-shirts that made them look like police officers supporting her.
But they’re not.
One of the men posted at St. Richard’s Catholic Church, 7500 SW 152nd Street in Palmetto Bay, said that he was not a police officer and was just trying to make a few bucks. His English was not very good, but he said that the shirts were provided to him by the campaign.
Other police imposters were spotted at Devon Aire Elementary on 122nd Avenue, The Crossings and the South Dade Library, making the concerted effort like this was an Election Day plan all along.
But it is misleading because Miami-Dade Police have not only endorsed Daniella Levine Cava. They have very ardently endorsed her. And they’ve been working at polling locations and phone banks to get her votes.
But the black t-shirts with striking white reverse type say “Save our Police, Vote Lynda Bell,” with her punch number.
Didn’t Bell support Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s plan to fire close to 300 police officers at one time? Why, yes, she did. How is that saving our police?
PBA President John Rivera said it was not surprising that Bell would make such a statement or have some imposter cops at voting precincts, given some of Bell’s other exaggerations and lies — like how Levine Cava supported the Marlins stadium.
“Her entire campaign has been a fraud,” Rivera told me.
In the case of her chief of staff, Ruben Arias, perhaps the t-shirt should say “Save My Job.” Arias, photographed here to the left, has reportedly taken a leave of absence to help his boss campaign. Let’s hope he isn’t getting a paid leave of absence.
Other employee unions are supporting Levine Cava, too, because Bell has been harsh on employees — both on the dais and in her rhetoric off the dais– and is one of the mayor’s pocket commissioners. She’s been overheard at polling places saying that she supports police, she just doesn’t support a tax increase to give them raises.
But that’s dishonest, too. Police are not looking for ra
ises. They just question how Bell supports the mayor’s proposal to fire hundreds of police officers while she tries to give her political sugardaddy, private developer Wayne Rosen — one of the bigger contributors to her campaign — $5 million in taxpayer funds to build a private parking garage and retail building in Palmetto Bay.
Levine Cava just seems more willing to hear both sides — not that she’s promised anything to any of the unions except an open and reasonable mind.
“The only thing she gives us is hope,” said county firefighter Omar Blanco.
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