Front Running Phonies

Scooter Libby is writing a book about his life in politics. GW will be writing the clemency section.

Jesse Jackson isn't running for President again, but he is shaking down all the candidates like usual.

Fred Thomspon's main distinction is that he has allegedly had sex with all the women that have worked on Law & Order. His wife is a lot younger than him, and he carries a big wad of money in his wallet.

The odds-on favorite is Hillary right now. She has all the donation money from the big corporations, and all the connections.

She is willing to do whatever it takes to get the black vote.

If you don't vote for her she will assimilate you.

Barack Obama was born a Muslim and now he wants to be president. Money can buy anything in America.

Between a very corrupt woman with a long history of shady deals and a guy who is basically unknown, I would rather vote for Obama.

Senator John McCain and his evil dwarf, Senator Joe Lieberman are both Bush lapdogs. As long as other people are the ones getting killed, McCain and Lieberman will support any war. Like most politicians, their family members are not on the front line.

Rudy Giuliani saw 9-11 as a great opportunity to step up and be in the spotlight. Now he wants to be President. His two ex-wives disagree.

Al Gore used to get a lot of bad publicity, but he has re-made himself so to be more popular. He has also won an Oscar and an Emmy award for some documentary he produced about global warming. In other words, he has no chance of ever being elected.

The new Al Gore is an Academy Award winner!


John Kerry keeps floating around on the national scene like some turd that can't get flushed.

Who are you going to vote for? Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck are probably the best choices, but they aren't running.

Republican Pervert Arrested

TITUSVILLE - Republican state lawmaker "Kneeling" Bob Allen, who was charged with offering to perform oral sex for $20 on an undercover male police officer vowed Thursday to defend himself in court and said he would not resign from office."I am filing a not guilty plea. I am vigorously going to fight this.'' State Rep. Bob Allen, a co-chair of Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign in Florida, said at a news conference, "I am not resigning my office because the people elected me and want me to do a good blowjob. I am going to do a good blowjob for them in finishing this term. I may not be the biggest cocksucker in the Florida State Legislature, but I want to be the best cocksucker.''


Allen called his arrest "an ugly and unpleasant situation that has been thrust on me and my family, like a big hairy penis.'' The lawmaker had sponsored a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on public sex. "I was just doing some research on how easy it is to give somebody a blowjob in a public place. I am not a faggot myself, but lots of my friends are cocksuckers." Allen choked up when he thanked his teabagger friends who had contacted him to offer their dildos and vibrators. Allen warned people not to jump to conclusions about what happened. "Just because I was arrested offering to give an undercover cop a blowjob doesn't mean that I would have done it. This was my first time. I am a virgin." Allen only spent a couple of hours in jail, so he is still a virgin for now and claims that he is saving himself for the right cop. "I prefer Highway Patrol. I fantasize about being pulled over by a Trooper and then being taken into the woods and forced to do things that would not be proper for a State Representative to talk about with the media. In case anyone wants to know, I am still cherry."


Allen said he could not offer any details about the arrest because of his legal strategy. "My legal strategy is to lie, mislead, and pretend this never happened. I am going to call on all my important political friends and see if the cop that arrested me can get a promotion in exchange for going on an extended vacation. Hopefully this case will be quietly dismissed in a few months." Asked if he could give a detailed statement, Blob said "If I actually tell the truth that would be stupid. Just because I got caught trying to give a cop a blowjob at a public park restroom doesn't mean that I am stupid." Allen says he is not a pervert. "It is not true. It is inaccurate and therefore, it's not guilty,'' Allen said of the case. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Polemonkey said the matter would be addressed in a timely and appropriate matter. "While this is an extremely serious matter, the House of Representatives and the judiciary system have established a process to deal with situations of this nature. We Republicans are well-known hypocrites and lying scumbags. Our Republican Party is replete with degenerate perverts and Blob Allen is hardly a blip on our collective radar.''

Allen's arrest on Wednesday came days after a key Southern supporter of McCain opponent Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, was identified as a client of a Washington, D.C., escort service."It just seems sad and tragic,'' Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday when asked in Miami about Allen's arrest. Veteran's Memorial Park was under surveillance when Allen was seen coming in and out of a restroom three times, said police Lt. Todd Hutchinson. Allen, 48, then approached an undercover officer and was arrested after he reportedly said "Hey, can I suck your dick for $20? I will take out my dentures and gumm it for you." The Officer had a mild seizure and threw up after taking a good look at Blob Allen. Fortunately, the back-up units were able to conduct the arrest. Allen has been charged with solicitation for prostitution; which has a maximum penalty of one year in jail. Brevard County jail officials said Allen posted a $500 bond and offered to meet the young boys in Juvenile Hall to talk to them about good citizenship. While being transported to jail, Allen told WFTV Channel 9 that the situation was "a very big misunderstanding. I wanted to blow the guy for free. I never offered to pay him. He should be paying me. I am still a hot guy.'' Allen was elected to the Florida House in 2000.

Gay Love In Miami Corruption Scandal

Doral Pharmaceuticals millionaire Carlos De Cespedes does not mince words when he explains why he gave Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz a hard-to-define, $80,000-per-year job after Diaz's election to the Miami-Dade County Commission. ''I hired him so he won't steal from you and me,'' De Cespedes told The Miami Herald during an interview this week at the Coral Gables restaurant he owns, Chispa. The temptation for fraud is just too great, De Cespedes argued.

Commissioners get a $6,000 annual salary to oversee a $7 billion county budget. A ballot measure in September will ask voters to raise that salary to approximately $89,000. The ballot language will not include any mention of the $55,100 in annual cash perks that commissioners have added over the years, however. If the measure passes, commissioners' total annual compensation would increase to $144,000.

''Those fringe benefits are not outrageous, in fact, they are normal for a job at that level,'' De Cespedes said. "I might still hire him as a consultant for certain jobs'' In recent months, federal prosecutors have contacted him at least twice to discuss the well-known elected official on his payroll. De Cespedes said he has cooperated fully with investigators and has nothing to hide. Diaz could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. Both federal and county authorities are examining Diaz's ties to De Cespedes and prominent developer Sergio Pino. One focus is a fishing trip the three men took to Cancún, Mexico, aboard Pino's private jet in May 2004.

''Their theory is that I'm a pass-through for money from Sergio to Pepe,'' De Cespedes said. 'I tell them, "Subpoena my records, subpoena everything. There's nothing there.'' Diaz did not disclose the fishing trip on gift forms filed with the state ethics commission. But he did disclose his job with the De Cespedes-controlled venture capital firm Astri Group, a $206,000 loan in 2004 from another De Cespedes venture called CJDC Investments and a $19,795 ''bonus'' in 2004 from Kaufman Medical, also controlled by De Cespedes.

Diaz, refers to himself as ''director of corporate affairs'' for the Astri Group. De Cespedes said that he didn't know Diaz's exact title, saying it was not significant: "Pepe can call himself whatever he wants.'' Earlier this year, Diaz co-sponsored an amendment to an existing county ordinance that requires all county departments to give preference to local bidders when awarding contracts. Diaz's change extended the policy to the Public Health Trust, which oversees Jackson Memorial Hospital, a key client of De Cespedes' company Pharmed. All of Pharmed's $3.7 million in sales to Jackson in 2005 was in such medical-surgical supplies, Alonso said.

De Cespedes said he didn't know about Diaz's ordinance change until a reporter left a message about it on his voice mail last week. ''I applaud it. I have been trying to get them to keep their dollars local for a long time,'' De Cespedes said, referring to Jackson Memorial. But he didn't put Diaz up to changing the ordinance, De Cespedes said.

De Cespedes said he, Diaz and Pino spent most of their time together on Pino's boat in Cancún. ''What do three guys talk about on a boat? We talked about women, we talked about Cuba, we talked about politics,'' De Cespedes said. (Miami Herald- August 18, 2006)

Commentary: Why should we think that when one man gives another man an $80,000 a year gift (non-working job); it is because of political corruption? Why not look at the obvious? Maybe these two guys are just in love? Perhaps the reason they like to vacation together is in order to fuck each other up the ass?
Take a close look at their photos. One of them looks like Richard Simmons and the other one looks like he is fingering his bunghole (maybe he is constipated?). Since they both deny being corrupt, then let's give them the benefit of the doubt. If they are just gay for each other, then more power to them! Perhaps they will take their next vacation in Hawaii and get married? We Miamians need to be more supportive of our homosexuals in positions of power, and let them enjoy their lives. Vivan los grandes maricones!

Drunk Commissioner Winton beats police officers

His breath smelling of alcohol, the Miami City Commissioner Johnny Winton last night angrily reminded airport police officers of his elected position before telling them ''Go fuck yourselves,'' according to a newly obtained police report.
After being led away in handcuffs, Winton hit a police officer's jaw with his shoulder and kicked another in the groin before losing his balance and falling on the marble airport floor, police said. Winton's face smashed into a wall.
Winton is charged with two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest with violence. He was released early this morning after posting bond, authorities said. The charges filed against him stemmed from an incident that began about 7:30 p.m. Monday night when American Airlines ticket agents summoned officers from Miami-Dade's airport district station to Gate A-3, where Winton, awaiting a delayed flight to Houston, had grown "loud and abusive.''

Winton told them he didn't have to calm down, reminding them he was a city commissioner before cursing at them, according to the report. The commissioner ''had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, had slurred speech and had been seen consuming alcohol at the bar at Concourse A,'' according to the police report.

After refusing to calm down and continuing to use foul language, Winton had to be handcuffed, police said. He attacked the officers -- and fell -- as he was being led to a squad car, police said. One officer sustained a chipped tooth, police said.

The commissioner refused treatment and was taken to the airport police station. As a precaution, he was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital's jail ward before being booked into Miami--Dade County Jail.

''Johnny what?'' City Commissioner Angel Gonzalez said last night when told of Winton's alleged actions. "Wow. That's pretty bad. Those are pretty bad charges. I don't know what to say.''

''It's very regrettable that once again more colorful stories and unfortunate stories are coming from City Hall,'' neighborhood activist Horacio Stuart Aguirre said. "They exercise such power that they begin to believe that they are powerful, and they forget that they are citizens -- subject to the laws that apply to all other citizens.'' (Miami Herald excerpt by Michael Vasquez & David Ovalle)
Here is a photo of Commissioner Johnny Winton after he got his beat-down from the Police. Apparently a corrupt scumbag politician can't always get what he wants. Hurray for Law Enforcement! Winton looks like he got a night-stick to the side of the head.

Cuban Lawmaker accused of racial slur

Schools chief Rudy Crew said a state legislator called him racial epithets, and four public officials said they heard the lawmaker use such language.

TALLAHASSEE - State Rep. Ralph Arza, a top education leader in the Legislature, has repeatedly used racial epithets in English and Spanish to describe Miami-Dade's African-American schools superintendent, according to the schools chief himself and four public officials from the Miami-Dade area.

''They were very disparaging remarks made in a very, very ugly ethnic tone'' for more than a year, Superintendent Rudy Crew said Wednesday. Four other sources, both elected and appointed officials, some of whom are Republicans like Arza, told The Miami Herald they had heard the lawmaker use the language when talking about Crew.

Crew, who did not hear the remarks but relied on what he called ''a number'' of reports, and the four officials said Arza has repeatedly used the word ''nigger'' in English to refer to the schools chief. In Spanish, for which there is no direct translation, they said Arza called Crew a negro de mierda, using a word for excrement.

The four officials said they heard Arza's comments individually at different times over the past year, the most recent a few weeks ago in Tallahassee.
Crew said he is considering filing a complaint against Arza with the House Rules Committee, which governs lawmakers' conduct.

Arza, of Hialeah, denied using any disparaging language to describe Crew. He said he had ''no idea'' who would have said he made those statements, but added that he had heard ''rumors'' that Crew and others claimed he used the language.

''I'm shocked by it. I'm shocked. I have not spoken publicly against him. I have supported him publicly. He has a lot of good ideas,'' Arza said.
''In Spanish, the word negro is black. But it's not disparaging. I never said anything disparaging,'' Arza said.

Arza, chairman of the House's Pre K-12 Committee, and Crew say they're both dedicated to schools. And both agree on one thing: Neither feels the need to speak with each other about it. ''It's a rumor. It's false. There's nothing more to say,'' Arza said.

Said Crew: ''I really don't think that conversation would have been productive.'' And when he first heard of the alleged slur a year ago? ''I did not want to be confrontational about that,'' Crew said. "I thought the work itself was the greater part of valor and that it would fall by the wayside.''

Two of the sources who said they heard Arza use the ''N-word'' believed Arza was not really bigoted, but that he likes to ``talk tough and intimidate.'' Crew said he knew the job in Miami-Dade was tough. But he was surprised by Arza. ''I'm basically a street kid. But I know, there are some rules you never break,'' Crew said. "You don't ever cross that line, not in our schools, not in our government, not from our elected officials.'' (exerpt of story by MARC CAPUTO)

Corrupt Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Joe Arriola, Johnny Winton?

Miami Herald Editorial Opinion:
DIAZ, ARRIOLA, WINTON PARTNERSHIP A CONFLICT

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, City Manager Joe Arriola and City Commissioner Johnny Winton saw nothing wrong in forming a business partnership that conflicts with their duties as city officials.

But there is plenty wrong with the deal, starting with Mr. Arriola's failure to disclose his involvement in the partnership, apparently in violation of city law. If Mr. Arriola is found to be in violation of the law -- and in view of his handling of the fire-rescue fee settlement -- it will be time for the mayor to ask him to step aside.

With the real-estate partnership and the lack of disclosure, Messrs. Diaz, Arriola and Winton put personal enrichment above their public duties. We're not alone in saying so.

Here's what the International City/County Management Association says about such conflicts in its Code of Ethics: 'Members should not invest or hold any investment, directly or indirectly, in any financial business, commercial, or other private transaction that creates a conflict with their official duties. . . This guideline recognizes that members' official actions and decisions can be influenced if there is a conflict with personal investments. Purchases and sales that might be interpreted as speculation for quick profit ought to be avoided.''

A quick profit is exactly what Messrs. Diaz, Arriola and Winton will realize if they sell the 1.3-acre property in Coconut Grove for anything close to their asking price of $5.7 million. They paid $3.1 million for the property last May.

Since the purchase, Mr. Diaz and Mr. Winton have made decisions as public officials that prove the wisdom of ICMA's warnings and demonstrate why there is a conflict. Mr. Diaz has refused to heed calls that Mr. Arriola be fired for incompetently managing the fire-rescue fee settlement.

In that debacle, Mr. Arriola steered the city into a $7 million deal with seven plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit, which, as a result, denied compensation to thousands of other city residents with similar claims. Mr. Arriola testified that he did not know the settlement benefited only seven plaintiffs -- but he should have known.

Mr. Winton introduced a ''pocket item'' resolution to the commission in December that gave Mr. Diaz a $53,000 raise in pay, pushing his salary to $150,000 per year. As a ''pocket item'' the resolution never appeared on the meeting agenda and no notice was given to elicit public discussion. Mr. Winton later apologized.

Sleazy Politician Joe Martinez gets white-washed by pals

Another scumbag Miami politician uses his power to get special favors. This kind of thing used to be called influence peddling, but here in Miami no politician is ever arrested or convicted for any corruption. The FBI is too busy and local law enforcement is too corrupt.

(excerpt from the Miami Herald story by Naomi Schwartz and Matthew Haggment:) The Miami Herald had calculated that the commission chairman got a $4,000 to $6,000 break on the land's price and in an interview last year, developer Carlos ''Charlie'' Martinez did not dispute those figures. Still, Charlie Martinez, whose family owns Caribe Homes, had said the sale was still a good deal for his company.

Joe Martinez is not related to Charlie Martinez.
The property, which was not marketed to the public, was one of a handful of larger lots in the 431-lot development.
Joe Martinez put $1,000 down on the land, or just over 1 percent of its $85,000 cost, signed no contract and paid the remainder more than 18 months later -- a delay that Charlie Martinez attributed to the time it took to install water and sewer lines on the property.

The Miami Herald compared the commissioner's cost, roughly $8 per square foot, with nine other built-out lots in the subdivision that had average land costs of about $14.55 a square foot by the time the commissioner closed. Those lots were sold by both Caribe and Lennar Homes, another major housing developer.
Though The Miami Herald consulted real estate experts in drawing its comparisons, Mazzella said his office had accepted Charlie Martinez's comparisons without consulting any other experts.

''He basically made the calculations as to the value of that property and asserted that it was a fair price based upon the size of it,'' Mazzella said. In addition to reviewing the land purchase, Mazzella's staff also checked the contractors building Martinez's 5,300 square-foot house. It found that none currently had any county contracts.

However, the report notes that the commissioner is getting some free services from longtime friends. This includes Juan Buade of Buade Construction, a company that is constructing the foundation and shell of the new house for free. Buade has done business with the county in the past and received his last payment in December 2001 for work on a county park, the report said.

The report says that Jorge Guerra Sr., the head of Design Drywall Inc., has acted as the project's general contractor and supplied his services -- lining up subcontractors, obtaining quotes, negotiating agreements and scheduling inspections -- for free.

WORK WAS `A FAVOR'

Guerra told the inspector general that he has known Joe Martinez for 15 years and helped him get elected to the commission. His work on the house is ''a favor for a personal friend'' Guerra told the inspector general.

Guerra's son Jorge Guerra Jr., a current Latin Builders Association board member who helps Design Drywall develop new business according to the association's website, is also providing some of the services. He signed the master permit on the company's behalf as well as another agreement with the commissioner to oversee the project. He is also helping to oversee the construction of the commissioner's home, the report said.