Too bad Rep. Eddy Gonzalez can’t be recalled

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State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez is a very lucky man that his challenger this year is a nobody with a bizarre name who works for a known absentee ballot queen and shady political operative. Otherwise he might not get this last term.

It should be taken away from him anyway when he wins. There is no recall option for state representatives, but maybe we should ask the governor to throw him out of office.

Gonzalez is implicated, no matter how much he denies it, in the absentee ballot fraud case in Hialeah. Guess they don’t call him “Here Comes Hialeah” in Tallahassee for nothing. He admitted to Ladra that boletera Daisy Cabrera — who was charged earlier this month with forgery for faking a signature on a ballot and with carrying 31 ABs against county rules — has worked in his past campaigns. He said she did it for a Thanksgiving turkey. Really? Really? C’mon, that’s bologna. Turkey bologna, maybe, but bologna nonetheless.

Just like his buddy, Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Steve” Bovo didn’t know what was going on under his nose in his district taxpayer-paid office in Hialeah, where 164 absentee ballots passed through on their way to the post office. Suuuuuuure. Riiiiight. He is throwing his secretary under the bus, but that lady should sing. Sources say Anamary Pedrosa — who resigned form her job (read: was fired) shortly after Cabrera was caught by the cops or charged — will be arrested Friday.

This is Hialeah’s legacy to the electoral process: Longtime and polished AB fraud. The brazenness with which these electeds — who have been doing it without anybody else barking but me for years — is outrageous. And now they try to cover it up. Why do you think Gonzalez filed that ridiculous lawsuit against Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador for having thrown a fake candidate who she pays as an employee to run against him? It’s a smoke screen to deviate attention from his role in this whole mess, which Ladra suspects was also driven to help his hand-picked puppet for House seat 103, Manny Diaz, Jr., who does have a real race and has been nowhere to be seen during early voting — letting  his wife and his mother-in-law show their faces for him.

But why wouldn’t he be part and parcel to it. He’s been friends with the AB usual suspects for years. He’s buddies with Bovo, obviously, and with Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and former Mayor Julio Robaina — whose uncle is now implicated in the new AB scandal. Hey, prosecutors and detectives, I know you are sharp and all but Mr. Sergio Robaina — who I understand is one of those who might be arrested for his part in the AB fraud scandal — was one of the main ballot runners during the Miami-Dade post-recall mayoral race last year, picking up ballots (for his nephew, of course), and during the Hialeah city elections last year.

And Gonzalez also apparently hangs out with AB benefactor Hialeah Councilwoman Kathy Fernandez-Cue — who later retracted her endorsement because that’s what snakes do. And he associates with shady types like Arnie Alonso and Glenn “The Goon” Rice, who are Mayor Castro’s preferred bully enforcers. You know how the Wicked Witch of the East had flying monkeys. These are Castro’s flying monkeys.

He’s buddies, also, even with State Sen. Rene Garcia, none other than the chair of the state’s Hispanic Legislative Caucus, who paid Cabrera and her daughter Milagros Cabrera almost $1,000 for “campaign work” — ’cause you’ll see lots of entire families doing this, and the same families on multiple members of this electoral fraud gang’s campaign finance reports. I know, you’d think the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office would be able to catch these people, they’re so freaking obvious. He also paid Emelina Llanes, another known AB runner or chaser, $650, according to his campaign report. Bovo paid Llanes, too. They all pay her and she works for the slate — which is how most AB runners and brokers operate. Think about it: Get paid multiple times for the same visit.

But Gonzalez is not content to stay with AB fraud. He is getting involved in all kinds of dirty tricks aside from that. He is co-mingling funds with his allies and mixing judicial races, illegally, on his slate card. And he is also part of the team that planted a write-in candidate in the race for state house seat 103, where his puppet, school administrator Manny Diaz, Jr., is facing a real challenge now from Miami-Dade School Board Member and former State Rep. Renier Diaz de la Portilla.

In fact, Ladra suspects that Gonzalez and the usual suspects were doing the AB operation for Diaz, Jr., this time around. None of them have any real challenge.

Rep. Gonzalez has stained himself with the stink of the Hialeah hoodlums.

Didn’t your Cuban mother ever tell you, Representative, that old saying: Dime con quien andas y te diré quien eres.

Tell me who you associate with and I’ll tell you who you are.