Still think David Rivera is NOT a liar?

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