CRESPOGRAM NUMBER 41 – MARCH 19, 2019
LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE. CHRISTIAN ULVERT COMES OUT LYING ABOUT WHETHER HE RECEIVED ANY MONEY FROM POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES AT THE MIAMI SHORES CANDIDATE FORUM
Even after all these years of doing what I do, I constantly find myself amazed at how some people are utterly incapable of telling the truth, even though they have to know that it will take someone like me little time to uncover that they’ve lied.
Take the Candidate’s Forum held last night in Miami Shores by the Miami Shores Homeowners Association.
One of the questions asked all the candidates was where they got their donations from and whether any of them had received money from PACs.
They all denied receiving PAC money, including Christian Ulvert, who gave the usual song and dance about how his money was coming from his family and friends. He was, however, very clear and forthright in denying that he had received any money from a PAC.
Since I had posted on this site a copy of Ulvert’s first campaign finance report on Monday morning before this meeting, it only took me about a minute when I got home to pull up his campaign report and find two clear-cut donations from PACs, each for $1000.
Both of them had interesting back stories.
Ulvert’s first campaign donation came from the PAC, Engaged Florida.
If you do go and look, you will discover the revolving-door way money flows from one candidate to another, and how the use of these PACs allows money to flow in and out of the same small circle of political players.
For instance, Ulvert was the campaign manager for Philip Levine’s failed run for Governor and gave him $ 3,000. Levine returned the favor by giving him $1000.
He gave $ 1,000 to Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, and Gelber gave him $ 1,000 back. He also received $ 3,000 from Michelle and Michael Worley and their company, MDW Communications, LLC, a Washington, D.C., political marketing company he had used several times in 2015 and 2016.
The connections and round robin give-and-receive is relatively easy to follow if anyone wants to take the time to trace all the connections down.
The second PAC that Ulvert received $1000 from was the New Leadership Network PC, a PAC created and controlled by Jorge Luis Lopez.
Over the years I’ve written on several occasions about Jorge Luis Lopez, including the $1550 in free tickets he gave to State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle to a Miami Heat playoff game, and also how
