Miami-Dade Police were called to the Coral Reef Library during early voting Sunday 
after trust fund baby Andrew Korge allegedly harassed one of the campaign poll workers stumping for former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan and ripped palm cards out of her hands.
Yes, Ana Rivas Logan is still in the race. She only suspended campaigning but the more Korge bullied her — sending others to ask her to formally withdraw, then sending two negative mailers to Democrat primary voters likening her to Donald Trump and Rick Scott and following up with a robocall telling voters that a vote for Rivas Logan will not count — the more resolved she became to resume the campaign, albeit just with some poll workers at early voting. After all, that’s all she really needs.
And that must have pissed Korge off.
“He walks up very fast to me and starts yelling, ‘Hey! She’s not running. You are a liar,'” said the woman wearing a white t-shirt with the word “DEMOCRAT” emblazoned across the top in blue. She was passing out palm cards for Rivas Logan and no other candidate. “He ripped the palm card out of a voter’s hand and threw it on the floor. He was telling the voters that their votes for Ana were not going to count.”
Korge could not be reached for comment. Ladra messaged him on Facebook, sent him an email and called two telephone numbers associated with his campaign, but got no call back. I wanted to get his side of the story. I mean, he even took photos and could have a video of the encounter.
“He was following me around with his phone like this,” the woman said, holding her phone right up to Ladra’s face and reminding me a lot of the harassment from Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez via Glenn Rice in Hialeah.
“He was harassing me. He was yelling, ‘Who’s paying you? Who’s hiring you?’ He got in front of me so I couldn’t pass cards to voters,” the woman said. She wouldn’t give me her name. She wouldn’t let me take a photo of her.
“When he was leaving, he was on the phone telling someone else to come down here and he was giving them my description — everything I was wearing down to my hat,” the woman said. “I don’t know. 
Anyone is capable of doing anything. He has a lot of money. Maybe I get hit by a car when I leave here.”
Rivas Logan got a text just before noon that one of her campaign workers was being harassed. “When I got there the woman was shaking,” the candidate said. Police were called to write a report but the woman didn’t even want to give them her address. “She’s so scared this man will show up at her house.”
Police wrote it up as a dispute. Nobody was arrested.
But Rivas Logan said she has talked to an attorney about filing a lawsuit or complaint for interfering in a campaign. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time. Korge is already under investigation for having allegedly tried to bribe Sen. Dwight Bullard out of the race with $25,000.
One might think he’d be trying to fly under the radar and not draw law enforcement attention.
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Thank you Grant. While the issues are important so are the issues of liars among us. Kienzle hit the nail on the head and I’ll leave it at that. District 40 has big issues. One candidate is the teddy bear that became an anti semite, the other plays hop scotch, landing in whichever box suits his advantage. Really wish Rivas Logan wasn’t so afraid to take her stake from the get go. If she can’t handle a district race, good luck in Tally. May the best no-nothing win.
If anyone is interested. Mr. Korge and Mr. Bullard debated on my radio program last week and (gasp!) actually discussed the most important issues facing District 40:
http://onlyinmiami.co/2016/08/15/watch-florida-senate-democratic-primary-debate-district-40-covering-kendall-south-miami-dade-county/
Wasn’t a majority share of CH2M bought by the Corradino Group several years ago? Along with another company that specialized in water projects to capitalize on the 2 billion+ water upgrades in the county? I’m sorry this is off topic, I’m just trying to keep all the players straight. Does anyone know anything about this?
Do we really deserve this? Since 1997 things have gotten worse and worse with one horrible group fighting another horrible group – something BOTH parties suffer from.
You made claims about this incident. Your credibility therefor is fare game.
You are fully aware of the CH2M Hill probe. This blog wrote about it. It is the talk of County Hall.
If you haven’t been questioned or subpoenaed, it’s only a matter of time before you are. The criminal probe in North Miami Beach is looking at everyone, not just the mayor. The mayor was smart to get ahead of it.
My credibility is impeccable. One lying blogger (not referring to Elaine) doesn’t change that.
If there is a “probe” into CH2M, I’m not aware of it. The blog you refer to is written by a liar. No one has questioned or subpoenaed me about it.
The mayor was smart to get ahead of it. He only did so because it was going to come out anyway. That criminal probe has to do with a land deal, not a city vendor.
I’m the so-called “lying blogger” that Evan Ross is referring to. Unfortunately for him (and unlike him) I do not lie. His “credibility” is hardly impeccable, but don’t believe me. Check with the SAO for details into the probe of CH2M. Evan may claim that he hasn’t “represented them in more than a year,” but the probe you speak of goes at least as far back as several years.
As for the “criminal” investigation into the North Miami Beach Mayor, look no further than the wannabe boy lobbyist who has been out to get Mayor Vallejo for years. Ross tried desperately to get NMB to hire CH2M to outsource its water department, even to the point of getting his then client submit two seperate offers each for less than $50K in order to circumvent the city’s bidding process. When his little plan was thwarted, he sought vengeance against Mayor Vallejo with a vengeance. If (and I should really say “when” but I will refrain for now) Vallejo is finally exonerated, Ross will have even more egg on his smarmy little opportunist face.
Just saying, of course.
[…] finally settled on State Senate District 40 to run against Dwight Bullard and Ana Rivas Logan in the Democratic primary. He then immediately tried to knock his opponents […]
Little Brat Evan Ross playing character witness for Little Brat Andrew Korge? Are you f*((^%$$ kidding me?
Mr. Ross is smack in the middle of an ongoing probe involving CH2M Hill in the cities of North Miami Beach and North Miami. Mr. Ross was on the payroll of CH2M Hill and now the authorities are trying to untangle the web of who knew what, who got what, who gave what.
We all know what’s going on with this company at the county. The probe now includes smaller cities around South Florida where they have contracts.
Do a Google search to know more. This company is all over the news and blogs. In North Miami it tried to cut corners on a environment remediation project. In North Miami Beach, it tried to get a $100,000 contract without bidding by submitting two contracts for $49,999.99. CH2M Hill has gotten $700,000 in work from North Miami Beach without going through a bid process.
STFU, will ya!
I don’t represent CH2M. I haven’t represented them in more than a year. The only probe going on in North Miami Beach is the criminal one into the mayor. That has nothing to do with CH2M or me.
Boy, do you have this lying brat’s number! Little wonder he’s pushing for his buddy, “trust fund baby” Korge for office. Any office! In fact, Korge has a fundraiser tomorrow evening in Aventura at Moe’s Restaurant, which is so far out of his newly adopted district, it’s ridiculous. Then again, like water, slimy wannabe lying boy lobbyists and slimy trust fund baby candidates tend to seek their own level.
The candidates fought in the West end (Hammocks)library as well.
Bullard 2016!
Andrew Korge is going to be the democratic nominee and will have the Clinton machinery behind him for November.
BULLARD 2016!
If the poll worker was assaulted yesterday, why did she fail to report it yesterday?
This is nothing more than Ana Rivas Logan’s attempt to defame Andrew Korge because she is upset that she can’t get elected to public office. She became a Democrat because she couldn’t win as a Republican. Now that her record as a right-wing Republican has been revealed to voters, she can’t win as a Democrat either.
Andrew didn’t assault anyone, Ana did. And she did it because she’s mad that he told voters the truth about her.
Ana Rivas Logan came to the polls today and immediately went at Andrew Korge screaming “I’m going to kick your ass!” She proceeded to berate him with vulgarities as he attempted to distance himself from the altercation. That’s not my recollection of the incident. That’s the recollection of numerous campaign workers from a number of different campaigns who witnessed the encounter.
Then, after filing a false police report against Andrew so that blogs like this one would attack him, she was clearly in fear for her safety (sarcasm). She followed Andrew to three more polling locations.
If she can’t deal with voters being informed of her record and her statements, maybe she should have actually withdrawn from the race rather than playing ringer candidate to try to shift the outcome.
All I can say is you need to read the story again, Evan. It depicts the altercation between Korge and the unnamed lady poll worker, who Ladra spoke to at Coral Reef (everybody else was gone by then).
I believe that Rivas Logan may have gotten into it with Korge after she arrived. But she never said she was afraid of him. In fact, quite the opposite. She said his bullying is what convinced her to resume the campaign. The poll worker I talked to, however, seemed to be a little bit intimidated, at the least.
And maybe Ana was referring to kicking his ass at the polls? Anyway, I would love to see the video.
Love, Ladra