GOP Wars: Rivera vs. Curbelo, Part II -- The Alliances

Bueno mi gente, aparentemente Elias' blog several days ago (posted below) has created quite a stir. People have been posting our blog on other blogs and we have even been accused of being "liberal." Figurate tu. It would seem that our research and the insider information we have obtained and made public about Miami-Dade GOP chairman candidates Representative David Rivera and political consultant for hire Carlos Curbelo have caused some people an acute case of cagalera.

Bueno caballero, we have a little more information to share and update you on, so prepare for another round of Pepto Bismol!

But before we go there, we would like to address a rumor that has been blogged about since we broke the GOP Wars story. It has been rumored that one of the candidates for GOP Chairman, Representative David Rivera, organized and headed a Republicans for Clinton organization back in 1992 when Bubba ran against El Viejo Bush. We have researched this allegation ad nauseum and have found no proof of it. We invite those who are alleging that Rivera formed a pro-Clinton group in 1992 to offer proof by posting it as a comment here. If the proof is substantiated, we will make a correction and condemn Rivera for his treachery.

Otherwise, we at Versailles Beat must conclude that this is just an unfounded rumor inventado por Curbelo loyalists who cannot excuse, and are trying to distract from, Curbelo's campaign contribution to liberal Democrat congressman Albio Sires.


Now, on to some newly uncovered information.

It has been said that you know people by the friends they keep. "Dime con quien andas, y te dire quien eres" is the old Cuban adage. Well, aside from donating to liberal Democrats, it would appear that wannabe GOP Chairman Carlos Curbelo also has quite a list of friends and business associates who also contribute to unsavory Democrats.

First, someone whom we have always disliked here at Versailles Beat: Sasha Tirador.

She's an unattractive, under-achieving, former late night spanish radio hostess who passes herself off as a journalist and analista politica for some chusma tv show on channel 41. She's one of these slimy, low-class bigmouths who for some unholy reason has been entrusted with a microphone and camera for a television show that caters to the uneducated, low-class chusma Hispanic population here in Miami. She uses her position to intimidate politicians and celebrities by throwing a mic and camera in their faces, like she did to School Board Member Ana Rivas Logan a few years ago. I'm sure she has done it a lot more since then, but I haven't watched that stupid show in years (sorry, but midgets, cross-dressers, clowns, and illiterates hablando mierda around a table as a bunch of balseras dance around to reggaeton don't inspire faithful viewership in me).

Aparte de eso, she is also a political consultant of sorts. She runs a telephone bank operation for candidates who hire her to follow-up on absentee ballots, get out the vote, or whatever else. She was recently involved in a bit of a scandal when her telephone bankers were caught calling Raul Martinez absentee voters claiming they worked for the Martinez campaign. The mostly elderly Martinez supporters would agree to give them their absentee ballots so the fake Martinez campaign workers could "turn in" the absentee ballots to the department of elections for them. According to the article, the ballots would instead "disappear" so that the Martinez votes would not be counted.

The article makes clear that Tirador was hired to run her banquito telefonico for the Diaz-Balart campaign by David Custin, another political consultant who works campaigns for Democrats and Republicans. Carlos Curbelo, the Diaz-Balart's main political consultant and campaign manager, hired David Custin to help with the Diaz-Balart campaigns.

We at Versailles Beat have been informed that Curbelo has tapped Tirador to help him in his run for GOP chairman. Our sources stated that she helped organize a meet and greet last week at a bookstore. We even received one unconfirmed report that Tirador has personally called some committee members to urge them to vote for Curbelo.

These specific details are unconfirmed, but the relationship makes sense. She was hired to provide telephone bank services to the Diaz-Balart campaigns, which Curbelo managed. Also, word around la ventana del Versailles is that she recruited the midget Juan Espinosa from the dumb, chusma TV show she is or was a part of to run against Rivera for state representative earlier this year. Also, up until some months ago, she ran a now defunct website called miamicaca.com where she posted some distasteful stories about Republicans, including David Rivera.

Here's the twist: Sasha gave $200 to Barack Obama in February of 2008, and later gave $409 more for a total of $609 to Obama this year. A woman who spent weeks condemning Clinton's raid of the Elian Gonzalez house in 2000 contributed to the Democrat who is tapping Eric Holder, Janet Reno's deputy at the time, as Attorney General. Not only does Curbelo give money to Democrats but he also hires "chusmas" like Tirador who also give money to Democrats.


Curbelo's other campaign business associate, the less chusma and more savvy David Custin did not contribute to Obama, but he gave money to Democrats such as liberals Sen. Patty Murray from Washington state and Rep. Ron Klein from Broward and Palm Beach, as well as Democrats at the state and local levels. If he wins the chairmanship of the party, will Curbelo hire these two Democrat contributors to do work for the GOP as he has done with the Diaz-Balart campaigns? Would party donors feel comfortable donating to a party headed by a Democrat contributor who hires consultants who contribute to Democrats?

But Curbelo's ties to Democrat contributors does not end there.

For those of us who listen to Radio Mambi on a regular basis, we know that Carlos Curbelo often appears on shows with so-called Republican fundraiser Ana Navarro.

Ana Navarro takes pride in touting herself wherever she goes by traveling with McCain in his "Straight Talk Express," attending the Republican Convention, and showing herself off at any high roller Republican event.

Despite all her Republican pomp and circumstance, last year this Republican stalwart and personal friend of Curbelo's invited Castro's personal friend and chief apologist in congress, the utterly despicable Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel, to a fundraiser in her home. Yes, Ana Navarro had Charles Rangel in her home for a fundraiser--the same Ana Navarro who appears with her pal Carlos Curbelo on the radio on a regular basis to talk politics.


Now you all might be asking what all this has to do with the Miami-Dade GOP. Well, these are the types that Curbelo "pals around" with and does business with, and will undoubtedly allow to run amok in our party. They will likely use the party for their own personal, political, and/or financial gain.

One of the arguments we Republicans had against Barack Obama was his dubious ties to people whose allegiances to America were in question. Those ties, in our opinion, are one of the many reasons that make Obama unfit for the presidency of our great country.

Likewise, it is our opinion that Curbelo's personal, political, and financial ties to people whose allegiance to our party are in question, in addition to his financial support of a Democrat and his inexperience with the party committee, make him unfit for the chairmanship of our party.

We maintain our reservations about a Rivera chairmanship as discussed in Elias' previous post, but if experience and party loyalty are to be taken into consideration, as they should, Rivera is by far the most qualified candidate of to lead our party.