More comingling of campaigns in Hialeah

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Earlier this week, we reported that there was illegal comingling of campaign promotions between candidates for state house and county court.

Ladra was told Tuesday morning that the palm cards with a slate of state house and county judicial candidates — a no-no according to judicial canon and election law — was an honest mistake.

But Tuesday afternoon, the honest mistake repeated itself — on the back of a sign truck belonging to Diaz.

An attorney representing several of the wannabe electeds nipped the first potential violation in the bud and had workers cut off the two judicial candidates — Judge Ana Maria Pando and Andrea Wolfson, wife of Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson — on the slate card for the three House races, State Rep. Jose Oliva (R-110), State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez and their hand-picked candidate for the open seat in newly-drawn district 103, school administrator Manny Diaz, Jr.

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Former State Rep. Juan Carlos Planas — who is Gonzalez’s attorney in smoke and mirrors lawsuit that intends to take attention away from his client’s ties to the Hialeah boletera — told Ladra that Wolfson, also his client, had no knowledge of the slate card handed out to voters at JFK Library in Hialeah.

“Someone just put the logo on there,” Planas told me early Tuesday morning. “Somebody who works for somebody who works for somebody. That kind of thing. And they sent it to print. Andrea Wolfson never authorized it, never gave money to pay for it, never had any knowledge about it.”

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He says that because she could get in trouble. “Judicial laws are very arcane,” Planas said, adding that they change regularly and are sometimes contradictory. “You can’t have your sign on a truck with another candidate sign on it, for example. And we are being safe. My thinking was, if you can’t have it on a truck you can’t have it on paper.”

Then, lo and behold, Tuesday afternoon, I spot this truck hauling a Manny Diaz sign — well, mostly a Manny Diaz sign. Wolfson’s propaganda was also tacked to the back.

She probably didn’t know about this one either.

But someone did.