Miami-Dade Democrats pick new chairman (former exec director of the terror linked CANF)

[Mika]

-Dade Democrats pick new chairman-
The former executive director of the Cuban-American National
Foundation is the new chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/25189.html

In a shake-up aimed at whipping activists into shape for the 2008 presidential election, the Miami-Dade Democratic Party on Monday picked a newcomer with national credentials to be chairman.

Joe Garcia joined the party's executive committee just three months ago but has years of political experience as the Hispanic strategy director of the New Democratic Network and former executive director of the Cuban-American National Foundation.

As chairman of the Miami-Dade party, he will be responsible for recruiting local and state candidates, raising money, and getting out the vote in Florida's largest county. Garcia, who is a Cuban American, takes over at a time when the political parties are fiercely jockeying for the growing and influential Hispanic vote.

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Mr Garcia was exec director of the CANF during the Elian hostage situation. It was the CANF who supplied the lawyers and the propaganda campaign intending to use the 6 year old boy in their long standing fight against Castro. That included choosing Orlando Bosch as the pediatrician for the child.


A glimpse of the CANF here.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Excellent choice.

Can we get Mark Foley to direct the Center For Missing and Exploited Children?

[Mika]

3. Stunning, isn't it? Joe Garcia is a real wingnut. Born in "exile" in the US.

I participated in an on-air WLRN (Miami's local NPR affiliate) sponsored panel "discussion" on US-Cuba relations. I went 'loaded for bear' with facts and figures. After a half an hour of factual debunking of Mr Garcia's anti Cuba tirade of lies he had to resort to calling me a "commie lover" and a 'Castro loving limousine liberal". The host of the show had to ask him several times to stop resorting to personal attacks. He just could not refrain from doing so.

Looks like the future of the Miami-Dade Democratic platform will be increasingly about Castro (if an increase is even imaginable).

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Yeah, he sounds like a real winner. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. Oh, my god. It's IMPOSSIBLE to see him as a Democrat, but then, they also have

Alex Penelas there, don't they? He did screw Al Gore in a criminal fashion during the 2000 election. When it comes to politics, they are, and will ALWAYS be wingnuts, these professional "exiles."

This just makes me sick.

I can understand why poster wakeme2008 feels that way!

Mika, I don't know how you endured sitting a half hour and more in the same room with this clown. He has always been a jerk. I'm glad you got him wild. They ALWAYS go for their insults when they can't get the respect they demand from others. They are baying at the moon. They'll never GET respect from others outside their own crappy faction.

[wakeme2008]

2. One of many reasons this Florida Demorat is moving out of state

:shrug:

[Judi Lynn]

6. Orlando Bosch, the mass murderer/bomber who helped kill 73 people on the Cubana airliner,

chosen as the personal pediatrician for Elián Gonzalez. That HAS to be the ugliest image in the whole world. It would take someone diseased like Joe Garcia to come up with that one.



Good old lifetime terrorist, Orlando Bosch, pardoned by none other than the elder _Bush, even though he helped murder all those people on that airplane in one fell swoop, or boom.



Who would want this slug around a helpless child, when he is known to have slaughtered children already?

[John Q. Citizen]

7. What were they thinking? Little Elian was probably responsible for a sizable

chunk of energized bush votes or flips from Gore to bush in Florida 2000.

After CANF and their ideological allies took the Clinton administration to the whipping shed in their bitter attempts to turn a young boys tragedy into political hay, then they elect the guy to run the show?

They may have a long standing fight against Castro, but they are historically and intricately linked to the worst of the Repo Party.
Any idiot can see the boy belonged with the father, whether the father lived in Cuba or the US. Or are these folks out to re-write the book on family law concerning parental rights?

Florida's anti -Castro Cuban community is America's Taiwan in reverse. Instead of Taiwan (Florida) longing to be free from the economic and military power of China (Cuba,) Our Taiwan wants to and does exert power over Cuba. In fact, it's there strategy to exert power over Cuba by attempting to make life as impossible and unbearable on the people of Cuba as they can so to hopefully and eventually utilize the hurt and pain of the Cubans to augment Taiwan's (Florida anti-Castro community) power.

I wonder what the back story is on how that guy got the reigns and who the faction was who tried to seat 50 new members.
Our media is becoming like Pravda used to be fabled to be. You have to sift for clues as to what's really going on.

Looks like a DLC/New Democrats move to me. Getting Maimi-Dade shored up for the primary and general.

Anybody have any more facts to flesh this story out a bit?

[Ken Burch]

8. It's time for the Miami Cubans to fucking MOVE ON ALREADY.

You guys are never gonna get to go back and exploit the workers in your old country again. Why don't you just focus on the insane wealth you have in this one?

And to the poorer folks in Little Havana, let me ask this:

You aren't rich.

You never WILL be rich.

Why do you still take the side of the scary rich people in your community?

It's time to put your own class interests first, guys.

Fidel ain't the enemy.

Posada Carriles and the CANF are.

"anticommunism" only helps the rich gusanos who make you work unpaid overtime.

[Mika]

9. Kick..

:kick: for the night crew.

[Judi Lynn]

10. New Congress Emboldens Cuban Democrats

New Congress Emboldens Cuban Democrats
February 6, 2007
Oscar Corral -- The Miami Herald

MIAMI - By her own account, Susana Betancourt earned her anti-Castro cred by helping to represent Bacardi in its trademark fight over Havana Club Rum against the Cuban government - and winning.

At 37, she's a successful and politically active Gen-Xer, a rising star in Miami's contentious political scene, working to lure Cuban Americans away from the Republican Party.

With Democrats in control of Congress and Raul Castro running Cuba the past six months as his brother Fidel remains ailing, some believe change is on the horizon. Last month, a bipartisan group, including Arizona Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, and New York Democrat Charles Rangel, once again introduced a bill in the U.S. House to allow travel to Cuba.

If Democrats act as a catalyst for change, Cuban Americans from their party will be in a position that could present both opportunity and political peril.

"There is this ongoing presumption that if you're Cuban you're automatically a Republican, and when you tell people you're Democrat, it's almost like the old guard looks at you and says, 'I didn't realize you're a communist,"' said Betancourt, president of the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=55052&cat=Headlines&more=/news/more-news.asp

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Susana Betancourt