Primary election night results have not brought good news for Democrats statewide, I believe. The stunning republican victory by former health care executive Rick Scott over Florida’s attorney general and former member of Congress Bill McCollum does not, in my opinion, favor Democrat Alex Sink, a former banking executive and currently Florida’s chief financial officer.

On another front, Kendrick Meek’s resounding victory over billionaire Jeff Greene puts Democrats in a pickle. Looking forward to November’s general election, polls are telling us Meek cannot win the race for U.S. Senate. But, as the Democratic Party candidate he will subtract votes, many believe, from recently turned Independent Charlie Crist, Florida’s current governor. Many Dems were looking at Crist as a best-case scenario in a race against upstart Tea Party favorite and republican nominee Marco Rubio. Meek’s win gives Rubio a very credible shot at winning in November.

As for Sink and Scott… A McCollum win would have made life easier for Sink going forward. McCollum is a dull campaigner – something Sink is also blamed for. And Scott is expected to spend all the money he needs to saturate the airwaves with his message. Scott, a multimillionaire, is expected to have spent more than $50 million of his own money when all is said and done.

Before tonight, polls showed that Sink would have had an easier time against McCollum. With the upstart and victorious Scott a relative unknown, but with money to burn, all bets are off in the race for Florida governor.

In both cases, and in my opinion, the worst that could have happened for Florida – did.

Alvaro F. Fernandez

Things seem to be getting worse for David Rivera. Miami’s state rep, who seems to want to lie his way to the District 25 Congressional seat abandoned by Mario Diaz-Balart, is mired in major Pinocchio-like problems. Over the past few months Rivera has been outed as a chronic liar. The problem is that the lies continue to mount, to the point, his growing nose has become so heavy he is falling over himself avoiding questions he seems to trip over – a standard NOT TRUE, he claims, in spite of evidence of truth against his continuing string of lies.

The latest dart which appeared yesterday in former Nuevo Herald reporter Rui Ferreira’s blog, Herejias y Caipirhinas, is that Rivera was close to marrying the woman he is being accused of beating up in the 1990s. A woman, by the way, who David says he’s never met! And to make matters juicier… the woman is a granddaughter of the only Cuban president ever named by Fidel Castro – a man by the last name of Dorticos, just like the woman Rivera NEVER beat up…

Alvaro F. Fernandez

There has been something very positive about this election season – at least here in Miami. Any person who still has doubts whether State Rep. David Rivera is a liar, well, there is still some land left in the Everglades (last time I checked there were still alligators there and the Latin Builders hadn’t bought the whole damn thing up and poured concrete on it) I’d like to offer you. Though, these days, there are developers who have bought land in the Everglades, poured cement on it, gone to the county and paid off commissioners, changed the zoning on our endangered South Florida water source and built cardboard houses on top of dead crocs, birds and who knows what other species of animal they’ve killed, and become rich while destroying one of our most precious natural South Florida resources.

For starters, Rivera has denied knowing one of his best friends. I had lunch with that friend of his, Ariel Pereda last year. He’s a good enough fellow. The problem: he does (legitimate) business with Cuba. Rivera, the most anti of the anti Cubans, suddenly (supposedly) turned on a friend for whom he served as best man at his wedding. Didn’t even know the guy, he told the media. Yeah, sure David… And why’d you keep him (Ariel) out of those nasty unconstitutional laws that hurt most everyone in Florida – except your buddy, of course?

Recently we’ve also heard of the truck he ran into in 2002, apparently on purpose, because it was carrying campaign literature that might be damaging to his first campaign for the State House. Turns out it was late in the campaign and he had hoped that by derailing (did he ever think that he might kill the driver on the Palmetto Highway?) the truck, it (the political mail piece it was carrying) might not get to the Post Office on time.

The political mail piece, by the way, had to do with accusations of domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend (or the daughter of a friend of his) he never met before. Sure David, you never met the girl. That’s right. Just like you don’t know Ariel Pereda…?

They are accusations that have again surfaced in David’s most recent republican primary campaign to represent Republicans in the November election for the Mario Diaz-Balart-vacated District 25 congressional seat.

I’ll throw one more into the David Rivera book of knowledge. Did you know that a young David, South Florida’s uber republican, in 1992, met with candidate Bill Clinton in the successful attempt to dethrone George H.W. Bush. At the time, Rivera was working for Radio and TV Marti (to be honest, I’m not sure if TV Marti was already around).

David, David, when will you be honest with us. Tell us the truth. What really happened with that girl you allegedly beat the crap out of? Might it be more than meets the eye? Are you hiding something in the closet you refuse to tell us about?

Hmmmm!

Alvaro F. Fernandez

David Rivera is still trying to lie his way to the top. This guy may soon overtake Dorrin Rolle in my book as the sleaziest politician in Miami. He denies a friend (because he does business with Cuba); denies he was being foreclosed on (which he was on a Tallahassee home he co-owned with fellow gunslinger and member of the Double R team Marco Rubio; and now this. Check out the video and then if you live in Congressional District 25, vote at your own risk: