Every time I think things couldn’t possibly get weirder in North Miami, something happens to prove me wrong.
As everyone knows, we are right smack in the middle of a very heated campaign season. Nowhere in South Florida is voting more “fun” than in North Miami.
From now until Sunday, early voting will be taking place at several polling places around Miami-Dade County, including the North Miami Public Library, where I’ve always suspected that a psycho magnet is buried beneath the foundation.
Unlike first time North Miami voters, who may be accustomed to genteel civility when exercising their right to vote, veteran North Miami voters are inured to the cacophony of shouting, fist fighting, blasting radios, earsplitting bullhorns, and paid “volunteers” shoving campaign material in their faces.
If they make it past the madness with their sanity and eardrums still intact, voters are immediately accosted by election “assistants” offering a wide range of services, including ballot ‘splaining, translating, and of course, some “Teacher” Carline-style “voter education.”
One such election “assistant” is the omnipresent campaign denizen, former Lucie Tondreau colleague and convicted felon himself, Nacivre “Good Time Charlie” Charles, who can always be counted on to entertain the electorate.
Last month, the Miami Herald reported that State Senate District 38 Candidate Daphne “Cray Cray” Campbell hired Charlie as her campaign manager, despite the fact that he just finished serving probation for illegal campaign violations.
When contacted by the Herald, as usual “Campbell did not respond to repeated calls and messages for comment.”
Because, well, she’s a celebrity, you know!
First time candidates campaigning at the North Miami Public Library also have no idea what lies ahead when they decide to toss their hats in the ring.
Jason Pizzo, who is also running for State Senate District 38, for example, had his very first Daphne Campbell Experience today.
Earlier this afternoon I received this text from him.
Alrighty then.
Stephanie
North Miami politics will never change as long as Districting remains in force and ethnicity trumps intelligence in both the candidates and voters. Buffoons like Daphnie Duck will continue to find a place in the hearts and minds of those who identify with her ignorance.
North Miami politics will never change as long as Districting remains in force and ethnicity trumps intelligence in both the candidates and voters. Buffoons like Daphnie Duck will continue to find a place in the hearts and minds of those who identify with her ignorance.
That voodoo stuff was racist. Is he saying that because she’s Haitian?…
No, he’s saying that because his Haitian workers who were with him told him it was voodoo. Otherwise, he would never have know what the hell she was doing.
Also, you can stop playing the dumbass race card around here.
For one thing, Haitian is NOT a race!
For another, there is nothing racist about telling the truth. Lot’s of Haitians still believe in voodoo and practice it. If, in fact, that’s what Daphne was doing – or even pretending to do – then apparently that is exactly what Mr. Pizzo and his volunteers observed.
If Daphne didn’t want others to perceive that she was performing some sort of voodoo ritual – or whatever the hell she was doing – maybe she should have stayed out of Pizzo’s tent.
Seriously. WTF was she doing there anyway?