Miami commissioner campaigns vs (threatens) public corruption prosecutor

Looks like former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — suspended by the governor after his September arrest on public corruption charges like money laundering and bribery — knows he’s not going to win re-election in District 1. That’s why he’s wasting money on a campaign against the Broward State Attorney who is prosecuting his case.

“This is the shameless liar who attacks and defames our Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla,” read the mail pieces that arrived this week in Broward voters’ mailboxes with a photo of “the leftist” Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor Jr., who, by the way, was given this case by the Republican governor after Miam-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle recused herself.

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