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“Each family has the right to structure its finances however it pleases, and in 2009 we made this decision when Senate lawyers recommended it,” Curbelo is quoted as saying. “We’ve found no reason to change that since then. My commitment is to follow the law and to disclose all of the information that is required by the law.”
Lucky for him that doesn’t include his “wife’s” clients, wink wink.
Really? Really? Are you kidding me? I got a reason for ya: Because the intention of disclosure laws is for people to know who the clients of an elected or candidate are. Period. Because you are skirting the law. And then you go in front of the elections department to position yourself as the squeaky clean candidate. Wow.
Do we really have to accept this?
Curbelo has the gall to say that he still has no plans to disclose the people who really sign his paycheck. And he insults our intelligence by saying that we all know who his clients are because he is on camera for them. Puh-leeze. It’s so disingenuous to say that he is publicly on the camera for all his clients. It’s true that Crybaby has been the public lobbyist for Genting, the Malaysian company that wants to bring a resort casino to Miami, and a Hispanic media spokesman for Mario and former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart as well as former Republican presidential wannabes John McCain and Fred Thompson. But it is also true that those are not his only clients. Come on, now! Those people haven’t been his clients in the last two years, when he made about $250,000. Who was paying Capitol Gains then? Why doesn’t the Herald ask that?
And how do we know that none of those clients do business with the public school district, where Curbelo steers billions of dollars? We don’t. And that is the point. Disclosure laws are there for a reason. They create transparency so that citizens and voters know who their electeds and candidates are in bed with. And that is why this is so much more important than the Congressional candidate — really? — wants to believe it is.
“Everyone can go online, view all my investments, all my bank accounts, all the stocks I own,” Curbelo told the Herald. “We’re not very wealthy, but we’re proud of what we’ve achieved for our family.”
Well, aw shucks. Is that supposed to distract me from the fact that nobody can go online and view all your clients? We didn’t ask about your investments and your property, which you apparently disclose, as legally required. Do you not hear well? We are asking you about the clients you so conveniently hide under your wife’s name.
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