Today, on Father's Day, where are FL Rep. Joseph "Joe" Gibbons' children celebrating with him? Likely up in the Jacksonville area where they all live, NOT in Broward County where he pretends he lives full-time

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If it's true that "Home is where the heart is," and we know that this location in Jacksonville is the law office of Joe Gibbons' wife, Ava Parker, what are we left to surmise and conclude?

Today, on Father's Day, where are FL Rep. Joseph "Joe" Gibbons' children celebrating with him? Likely up in the Jacksonville area, where they all live, NOT in Broward County where he pretends he lives.

We know that they're all not over at North Beach, where we were yesterday, taking even more photographs to document how dirty the beach is and has been allowed to remian for years under the current powers-that-be at Hallandale Beach City Hall.

Above and below, proving the maxim that rust never sleeps. 

But at the City of Hallandale Beach's poorly-maintained and dirty North Beach, it also never moves. May 30, 2012 photos by South Beach Hoosier.

Joe Gibbons' gambit continues to make a complete mockery of the state's laws that require someone to be a full-time legal resident of the district they represent.

And the state legislators from Broward County all know about it, too.
And they just look the other way.

Along with the Broward States Attorney Mike Satz and the entire South Florida news media, save Bob Norman.

In Indiana, you actually have to live where you say you do, and be able to prove it, even if you're an elected official.

In Florida, not so much.

This article show the contrast between states that enforce their laws and those that don't:

Los Angeles Times

Indiana secretary of state convicted of voter fraud

By Ricardo Lopez

February 4, 2012  1:17 pm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2012/02/indiana-secretary-of-state-convicted-of-6-voter-fraud-charges.html

See also:

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011

Elaine de Valle's Political Cortadito blog channels Sherlock Holmes and catches the crook red-handed: FL Rep. Frank Artiles. Blogger 1, Lying Pol 0

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/elaine-de-valles-political-cortadito.html

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Elaine de Valle's smart and knowing Miami-Dade-centric blog, Political Cortadito, has migrated from Blogger.com to WordPress. Check out the site that is the new Home Sweet Home for "Ladra"

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Above, Hialeah City Hall, 501 Palm Avenue, circa June 2009, courtesy of Google Maps

Despite having written myself a few notes to mention it here, I hadn't gotten around to posting the news yet, but Elaine de Valle's smart and knowing Miami-Dade-centric blog, Political Cortadito, blessed with an especially strong intuition and nose-for news regarding the antics and hijinks in the City of Hialeah, has recently migrated from Blogger.com to WordPress. 

Check out the new site that is the new Home Sweet Home for "Ladra"


New website: www.politicalcortadito.com

Old website: http://politicalcortadito.blogspot.com/

And for those of you out there who still have Blogger.com blogs, like me, don't forget to change your RSS feeds to your Dashboard feature to the new one, or else you won't get Elaine's new posts, which now feature a new webpage design and style: 

http://www.politicalcortadito.com/feed/

But Elaine is still keeping that Gmail email address of hers in case you have a tip or two to share with her.

Hialeah's future: "Four more years of exposing Gavelgirl's graft and vulgar griteria tactics"... "makes Ladra's tail wag like mad..."

Ladra on Hialeah primary election results: "Four more years of exposing Gavelgirl's graft and vulgar griteria tactics"... "makes Ladra's tail wag like mad to think of her up on the dais with" Raul Martinez as mayor.

Or as blogger Elaine de Valle wrote yesterday in the voice of her muse & alter ego, half-way thru one of the most accurate and delicious blog posts I've seen this year, about the prospect of two XL egos on one dais, fighting for oxygen and the microphone:

And, I love to admit, it makes Ladra's tail wag like mad to think of her up on the dais with Martinez as mayor. In fact, that image among voters might boost the Dark Prince's numbers in the run-off.

*In case you don't know, when she references Sasha Tirador as "the AB Queen," she's talking about absentee ballots, long a subject of much controversy and legal & criminal investigation in the City of Progress for reasons too numerous to mention here. Tirador's working for incumbent Hialeah mayor Carlos Hernandez who received 40% of the votes Tuesday and who faces former longtime mayor Raul Martinez in the run-off on November 15th.

Political Cortadito blog

Shock in Hialeah election upsets

By Elaine de Valle,

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Hialeah election primary ended Tuesday in a thud heard 'round the City of Progress and met with what can only be called shock and/or total disbelief by the hundreds of supporters and volunteers (not to mention the paid political consultants) that waited for results at the campaign offices of both former State Sen. Rudy Garcia and former Mayor Raul Martinez, where many undry eyes watched su alcaldito Carlos Hernandez hang on to a formidable lead.

Read the rest of the insightful post at:

http://politicalcortadito.blogspot.com/2011/11/shock-in-hialeah-election-upsets.html

Channel 4's video embed code wasn't working for this story, so here's their coverage:

CBS4 News video: Hernandez, Martinez Face Runoff Election For Hialeah Mayor

November 1, 2011

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Elaine de Valle's Political Cortadito blog channels Sherlock Holmes and catches the crook red-handed: FL Rep. Frank Artiles. Blogger 1, Lying Pol 0

Elaine de Valle's Political Cortadito blog channels Sherlock Holmes and catches the crook red-handed: FL Rep. Frank Artiles. Blogger 1, Lying Pol 0

Elementary, my dear Watson!
http://politicalcortadito.blogspot.com/2011/04/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html



Above, Florida Rep. Frank Artiles, the guy who couldn't find a place to live since the election of November 2nd. How could you trust someone who was both so unethical and so stupid?
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4529&SessionId=66
Score so far: Blogger 1, Egregiously-unethical legislative rep 0.


After reading the Marc Caputo story below that was posted online just before midnight Thursday morning, why-oh-why is there STILL no movement on the Joe Gibbons campaign registration/residency issue?

BrowardPalmBeach New Times
The Daily Pulp blog
House Pro Tem Investigated for Homestead Fraud
By Bob Norman
November 15 2010 @ 10:15AM
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/11/joe_gibbons_investigated_homestead_fraud.php


Naturally, it being the Herald, they didn't have an online link to Elaine de Valle's
blog, http://politicalcortadito.blogspot.com/

Common sense dictates that State Rep. Frank Artiles should've been expelled weeks ago.
To soon be followed by Gibbons if rules and laws mean anything.

Now THAT would set an example for the future: when you register to run for office, the information you write on the documents filed with the State of Florida are true and legally-binding, and you actually LIVE at the address you write down -in the District.
Otherwise, why abide by the rules?

That's why all the other legislative members ought to just pile-on these guys and ruin their political careers.
Seriously, why would you want to have such low-lifes in your group?

Could you have any faith or confidence in someone who'd shown themselves to be incapable of appreciating that what they were doing was reprehensible?

It's NOT really too much to ask that the Florida legislature enforce the State Constitution and the public's right to be represented in Tallahassee by someone who ACTUALLY lives in the legislative district.
In fact, that should just be the bare minimum one expects.

State Representative: an elector and resident of the district upon taking office and a resident of the state for at least 2 years prior to election.

Above, from website of State of Florida Dept. of State, Frequently Asked Questions,
Residency requirements for Florida House of Representatives.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/gen-faq.shtml#link5


And yet, here we are in the Florida of 2011, with Mike Haridopolos, the ethically-challenged Senate president and U.S. Senate wannabe, and Dean Cannon, the Florida House Speaker so little known outside of his own family and a small clique of Tallahassee-based reporters.

Lightweight legislators and junior-varsity crime-fighters are the "leaders" of the fourth-largest state in the U.S.A. and so far, they seem unable to even police their own minions and occasionally throw one smelly fish out before he infects the whole bunch.
It sure explains a lot in the Sunshine State, doesn't it?

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Miami Herald
Busted by a blogger for not living in his district, Rep. Frank Artiles said he’ll move to his West Kendall district soon. But he could pay a hefty fine.
By Marc Caputo Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
April 21, 2011

TALLAHASSEE -- More than 170 days since Republican Rep. Frank Artiles was elected, he still hasn’t moved to the west Miami-Dade district he represents in the Florida House — a potential Constitutional violation that could cost him 5 months’ pay.

Artiles was caught living in his Palmetto Bay home two nights ago when a Miami political blogger knocked on the door of his Palmetto Bay home.

Wearing gym shorts and socks as he watched the Miami Heat basketball game, Artiles admitted to blogger Elaine de Valle that he didn’t live in his district...

Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/20/2177854/state-rep-artiles-could-face-hefty.html