As if Ladra could get any happier Tuesday night, after the historic victory by Raquel Regalado, who forced Carlos Gimenez into a runoff that we know she can win in November.

But then, Trust Fund Baby Andrew Korge — who shopped around for a seat he felt he could win and then spent $700,000 or more to become a senator and then went mad dog on everybody and their mother — and then came in third anyway.

Our mailboxes in District 40 are going to get a little lonely.

Korge — who sent two dozen mailers and spent a quarter of a million, at least, on TV commercials — was beaten by the incumbent senator he cast as a terrorist sympathizer with money problems and a former state rep and party switcher who didn’t even campaign.

Read related story: Andrew Korge could make anyone a Frank Artiles fan

Sen. Dwight Bullard gets to defend his seat in November, winning with 49 percent of the vote (state primaries are won by the majority not a 50%+1 threshold). Former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan — who suspended her campaign WHEN to avoid the negative attacks she saw coming from Korge (he lunged for her anyway) — got 25 percent and Korge got 22 percent. Only Misselys Perez, who never campaigned or raised a dime outside of what she needed to qualify (plantidate anyone?) got less with slightly over 5 percent.

Bullard raised a total of $153,500 and Rivas Logan came in second with only $17K.

Could it be that the negative mailers turned people off? Could it be that nobody knew who this man who pronounced his name Kor-hay was? Could it be they saw him for the entitled, spoiled little snot who has never done anything on his own except ride his papi‘s coattails?

Korhay was nowhere to be found Tuesday. Nobody I talked to at several precincts saw him. They did see some of his campaign workers holding Sen. Anitere Flores fans at West Dade Regional Library — because that is in her district, not his, proving that more money does not necessarily mean more brains.

Or maybe he’s thinking of running for county commissioner next, against Javier Souto?

May we suggest that Baby Korge do something on his own first. Because Ladra would bet that Korge can’t get elected to the community council in any of the West Dade areas.

One of the scariest things that could happen Tuesday is that Trust Fund Baby Andrew Korge could actually win a seat on the Florida Senate.

God help us all.

Because he really doesn’t deserve it. Not only has Korge done nothing at all notable in his short adult life but live off his Papi’s millions, he has also behaved during this campaign alternately like an entitled cry baby and a bully with a big bat (read: wallet). He has not behaved like someone who could be a senator.

The self-righteous little punk has driven fear into the hearts of local Jews by trying to make Bullard look like a terrorist sympathizer. Korge had a fundraiser last week in Aventura — bet he pronounced his name Korge with a hard G, there, and not Kor-hay like Jorge —  where he told contributors and supporters that Bullard is soft on Israel (although he is a state senator, not a U.S. Senator) and wears a scarf that might look like a Palestinian Kaffiyeh.

But Ladra bought her brother a scarf for Christmas that looks a lot like the one in the picture of Bullard. I got it at Dadeland Mall. At Abercrombie & Fitch. I’ve seen them on the accessory wall at DSW, too.

Also, I wear a lot of Indian jewelry and clothing — and that doesn’t make me Hindu. This is America, and Miami even, where we can adopt customs from other cultures without being judged.  Korge sure can adopt our Latino culture. In an appeal to Hispanic voters, he has taken to pronouncing his name like Jorge with a K (Kor-hay).

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He’s also spent a lot of money on mailers. But you can’t be sure exactly how much just by looking at his campaign reports, because he doesn’t list them as such. In fact, the PAC — which has sent the majority of mailers — has no mailer or postage expense line items at all. Ladra had to assume those fall under the “media” expenses paid to David Heller’s company, Main Street Communications. That amounted to about $220,000. Korge has spent almost that much on his media buys and production as well, but the mail budget has to be a record number. (Heller is going to have a nice holiday season this year. Tip: Don’t buy your male relatives scarves from Abercrombie & Fitch.)

Ladra lives in District 40. My home got 24 mail pieces from the Korge campaign. Most of them are negative attacks on Sen. Dwight Bullard, the incumbent, and former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan, who “suspended her campaign precisely to avoid the dirty campaign — she could fly under the radar and win — but she got hit anyway.

Korge wants to be senator so bad he tried to buy his way in. He offered Bullard $25,000 to drop out of the race. Oh, not in cash. An investigation into allegations of bribery found no wrongdoing because all Korge did was offer to raise $25,000 for Bullard — but in another seat.

Read related story: Andrew Korge still shops around for a seat — or a sellout

“Dwight lied to voters and the media,” Korge told Ladra in a text message on Friday, all excited that he could spin the news into an exoneration. Because Dwight didn’t lie.

The Miami Herald story said “Korge’s claim was bolstered by text messages that showed Bullard, weeks earlier, had asked for help from Korge in fundraising, according to a final report on the investigation released Thursday by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.”

The problem with that is “weeks earlier” was when Korge was running in another seat, against Sen. Anitere Flores, and could have been seen as a Bullard ally. There’s nothing wrong with Bullard seeking fundraising help from one of the most prolific Democratic fundraising families in South Florida. It was actually smart.

But for Korge to make the offer again after he jumped into the race against Bullard should constitute bribery,  Ladra is thinking that the definition of bribery needs to be expanded. Because the intention is the same.

Now he is trying to buy the seat with $800,000 spent between his campaign and his PAC. Ladra bets it goes up to $1 million before the primary is over. He seems like the kind of politician who might just be willing to throw money at anything. He might do the same thing with our tax dollars.

Baby Korge also has a robocall telling voters that a vote for Rivas Logan will not count. Don’t you believe it. The man who would be senator is lying through his teeth. That’s how much he wants to be a senator, dammit. Because he knows damn well that a vote for Ana Rivas Logan will count. That is why he has spent good money attacking her, too.

There are three candidates in the Democratic primary for Senate in district 40

The Democrat in Ladra’s house voted for Rivas Logan and we will argue that she didn’t have to campaign to win. Her name recognition alone had polls showing Ana beating both before she suspended the campaign and their negative back and forth could help her rise above it all.

Read related story: Senate 40 race: Ana Rivas Logan still in it, could win it

But, yes, Ladra is scared that Rivas Logan didn’t do enough and Korge — with his mailbox fetish and TV ads and fear-inducing robocall — could take the crown. Is this how Korge will treat elected office? Will he lie and cheat and bribe his way to success there? The end justifies the means?

He’s going to be insufferable for sure.

It’s almost enough to make Ladra support Frank Artiles, the state rep who is running against whatever Democrat wins in November.

So, if you’re a Democrat in District 40, please vote for Rivas Logan or Bullard. Don’t make Artiles the lesser of two evils.

Miami-Dade Police were called to the Coral Reef Library during early voting Sunday after trust fund baby Andrew Korge allegedly harassed one of the campaign poll workers stumping for former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan and ripped palm cards out of her hands.

Yes, Ana Rivas Logan is still in the race. She only suspended campaigning but the more Korge bullied her — sending others to ask her to formally withdraw, then sending two negative mailers to Democrat primary voters likening her to Donald Trump and Rick Scott and following up with a robocall telling voters that a vote for Rivas Logan will not count — the more resolved she became to resume the campaign, albeit just with some poll workers at early voting. After all, that’s all she really needs.

And that must have pissed Korge off.

“He walks up very fast to me and starts yelling, ‘Hey! She’s not running. You are a liar,’” said the woman wearing a white t-shirt with the word “DEMOCRAT” emblazoned across the top in blue. She was passing out palm cards for Rivas Logan and no other candidate. “He ripped the palm card out of a voter’s hand and threw it on the floor. He was telling the voters that their votes for Ana were not going to count.”

There are three candidates in the Democratic primary for Senate in district 40

Korge could not be reached for comment. Ladra messaged him on Facebook, sent him an email and called two telephone numbers associated with his campaign, but got no call back. I wanted to get his side of the story. I mean, he even took photos and could have a video of the encounter.

“He was following me around with his phone like this,” the woman said, holding her phone right up to Ladra’s face and reminding me a lot of the harassment from Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez via Glenn Rice in Hialeah.

“He was harassing me. He was yelling, ‘Who’s paying you?  Who’s hiring you?’ He got in front of me so I couldn’t pass cards to voters,” the woman said. She wouldn’t give me her name. She wouldn’t let me take a photo of her.

“When he was leaving, he was on the phone telling someone else to come down here and he was giving them my description — everything I was wearing down to my hat,” the woman said. “I don’t know. Anyone is capable of doing anything. He has a lot of money. Maybe I get hit by a car when I leave here.”

Rivas Logan got a text just before noon that one of her campaign workers was being harassed. “When I got there the woman was shaking,” the candidate said. Police were called to write a report but the woman didn’t even want to give them her address. “She’s so scared this man will show up at her house.”

Police wrote it up as a dispute. Nobody was arrested.

But Rivas Logan said she has talked to an attorney about filing a lawsuit or complaint for interfering in a campaign. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time. Korge is already under investigation for having allegedly tried to bribe Sen. Dwight Bullard out of the race with $25,000.

One might think he’d be trying to fly under the radar and not draw law enforcement attention.

After trust fund baby Andrew “Kid” Korge jumped into another Senate race, the common political thought was that Sen. Anitere Flores had nothing to worry about. In fact, we thought Korge jumped because polls showed him she had nothing to worry about. Now with Korge and his attack money out, everyone thought Flores would coast.

But she is campaigning like she never has. Flores is spending money on bus benches and TV ad buys — her first TV commercial aired this week — and driving regularly to the Florida Keys and securing endorsements from almost every group of firefighters there is.

Does she actually think she has a race?

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Flores faces some unknown Democrat named Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who filed right before the deadline. Mucarsel. Mucus (moco) plus carcel (jail). Debbie “Boogerjail.” La pobre. She’s a fundraiser for Florida International University who is just as pretty as the senator and who has raised a respectable-for-a-newby $66,230. She’s only had to spend $4,000 because the Florida Democratic Party has provided in-kind consulting and research worth $46,000.

This is one of the seats they’re desperate to flip, because it’s in a newly redrawn district that President Barack Obama won by five points in 2012. It might be slightly more red, but it appears that the independent voters will make the difference.

So the senator is sweating it.

Flores, who has raised close to $1 million ($946,243) since 2013, has spent a quarter million of it just since June 25. That includes $113,000 on media buys and $62,000 on outdoor advertising (like bus benches and/or billboards) in the same six weeks. Ladra saw the first TV ad over the weekend. And she has about $343,000 left to spend. She also has about $400,000 left in her PAC, Floridians for Strong Leadership.

Read related story: Senate 39’s Andrew Korge vs. Anitere Flores gets ugly fast

And she’s all over the place herself. Saturday she was distributing backpacks in Homestead. Monday she was visiting Wesley House in Key West, which provides services to foster and adoptive families. She’s taken several trips to the Keys, which is a new constituency for her and she seems to be courting them.

So even Korgeless, it looks like there might still be a race in District 39. Or at least Flores is treating it like one.

In the District 40 Senate primary, trust fund baby Andrew Korge has sent the single Democrat voter in Ladra’s household 12 mailers in the past couple weeks. That’s more than all the other candidates on my ballot — combined.

It’s gotta be some kind of record.

Korge, who is running against incumbent Sen. Dwight Bullard and former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan (like it or not) in the Aug. 30 election, is the richest of the three candidates by far, with a $700,000 war chest amassed. 

It’s no wonder he has sent 12 mailers. He has money to burn. Whoever is doing those mailers for him is going to have a good year.

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Five of those mailers have been negative attacks. Two attacks in both Spanish and English against Bullard, for campaign finance violations and campaign spending. And one in just Spanish attacking Logan. Because he knows where he’s weak.

The other seven are positive, and two of them are in both Spanish and English. They talk about creating jobs and raising the minimum wage and “protecting Democrat values” and improving our public schools. But the most important part, for the campaign, are the pictures of Korge with both Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

In fact, it’s not enough that Korge has Democrat photo ops. One mailer promotes his “Democrat roots” with vintage pics of his grandfather George Korge with former super blue Congressman Dante Fascell, for whom grampa was campaign treasurer. You have to appreciate the old timey album feel of the photos with corner sleeves. There’s even one of Kid Korge as a 3-year-old wearing a Fascell shirt at one of the legislator’s famous Labor Day picnics. 

Why’d he skip a generation? Ladra is sure there are pics of Papi Chris Korge with all these Democrats and then some. Could it be because Chris Korge made all his money in the sweet concession deals at Miami International Airport that he got during the Alex Penelas days?

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All but two of the mailers — one positive piece and the hit piece on Rivas Logan — were paid for by the political action committee Friends of Andrew Korge. The PAC had raised a total of $385,129 as of the end of July and still had $217,940 to spend. But, while it looks like he has spent at least $87,000 on TV commercials, none of the expenses so far account for the intense mailbox activity. It must be coming in the next report. The candidate’s own campaign account also listed zero mailers under expenditures and it only had $90,442 of the $343,516 raised.

But there’s another campaign finance report coming soon. Korge will likely spend $1 million before the Aug. 30 primary. His opponents have a fraction of that. Bullard has less than half of the $126,883 he raised as of July 29. And Rivas Logan, who has suspended her campaign, had less than $10K of the $17,500 she raised.

Ladra doubts her mailbox will be seeing anything from either of them — but more from Korge.

Whoever wins this contest, will have to go up in November against State Rep. Frank Artiles, who now wants to be a senator. Artiles has $251,428 left of the $411,893 he raised. Plus he has access to multiple PACs and will likely get help from the Republican Party of Florida to win a seat they so desperately want to flip.

 And while he doesn’t have a primary opponent, Artiles has already sent two mailers from his campaign.

Another negative mailer connecting Donald Trump to a candidate arrived in mailboxes this week. But this one attacks a fellow Democrat — and one who had suspended her campaign, no less.

And this time, it may have backfired — because former State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan is a little riled and refuses to withdraw her name from the ballot.

Trust fund baby Andrew Korge is apparently so afraid of Rivas Logan’s pull and name rec — even without her spending a dime on mailers or ads — that he hit her with an attack ad this week saying Trump and Rivas Logan are “right wingers with a lot in common.”

The one Ladra got to see was in Spanish and arrived Tuesday — long after the Democrat in our house voted, by the way. “Logan y Trump son extremistas de la ultraderecha,” says the one side. Do we even have to translate that? Then it says that “Ana Rivas Logan’s vote history would make Donald Trump proud.”

Read related story: Ana Rivas Logan switches parties to back (up?) Charlie Crist

It cites votes she made in the state house in favor of the NRA (for open carry) and against teachers (for teacher testing) and public schools (for school vouchers) and against a woman’s right to choose (for waiting periods and required ultrasounds).

But what it doesn’t explain is that Rivas Logan was, indeed, a Republican at one time. She turned blue after her party turned its back on her and espoused what she calls an anti-immigrant stance.

And guess what? She was considered a soft or weak Republican back then. Some called her a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Not totally right wing. She didn’t always vote with the party, and was someone who could build consensus across the aisle. That’s why her colleagues abandoned her to support State Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in 2012 after they were drawn into the same district.

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Rivas Logan must be psychic. She suspended her campaign because she knew that there would be negative mailers coming. She probably got the inkling when Andrew Korge visited her and urged her (read: tried to bully her) to run for another seat. According to several sources, the state attorney’s office has interviewed several people about Korge’s alleged shakedown tactics, which include an alleged bribe of $25,000 to Sen. Dwight Bullard to change seats, too.

Anyway, Ana’s parents are elderly. When she announced she would suspend her campaign, she said she was doing it to take care of her parents. What she meant was she didn’t want them to have a heart attack over another mailer saying she wasn’t really Cuban, like Jose Felix Diaz sent.

“Balancing the care my parents need and what will be in-the-gutter campaign tactics by some in the race, I have chosen to suspend my campaign today knowing that my future in public service is not over,” Rivas Logan wrote in a note to supporters. Key words: “Not over.”

Well, since suspending the race didn’t stop the attacks, Rivas Logan seems to be getting re-engaged.

Read related story: Andrew Korge still shops around for a seat — or a sellout

“I am not going to be intimidated and I am not going to withdraw my name from the ballot,” Rivas Logan told me, adding that she was asked by the Korge Camp to officially withdraw, which would cause the elections department to toss out any votes for her (or not count them).

As it stands, votes for Ana Rivas Logan count. And she could win.

And Ladra bets she does. That’s why Korge is attacking her. His poll numbers show the same thing that Ladra hears from other political observers and consultants. Rivas Logan’s name rec is enviable. She has served that same constituency as a state rep and as a school board member. She is considered a good Cuban mother and daughter by the predominantly Cuban voter bloc. And she’s gotten a lot of valuable earned media in recent months in both English and Spanish precisely because she is one of the few Hispanic Democrats in Miami-Dade (she and former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez should charge a fee for their appearances).

In other words, she really doesn’t need to do anything. This mailer will backfire with some people and let them know she is still in the race. Others will just see her name on the ballot and bubble in that number.

That’s a good thing. Because she doesn’t have any money to do anything. She hasn’t raised any funds since mid July, for two reporting periods, and has about $14,000 in hand.

What sucks is that the Florida Democratic Party, out of a delusional sense of duty to incumbent Sen. Bullard, refused to help Rivas Logan in the primary. And they should have. Because she is best suited to beat Republican State Rep. Frank Artiles — who has already started sending mailers to independent voters in the district, no less (more on that later).

Korge also hit Bullard again. Ladra’s house received the same mailer yesterday calling the senator untrustworthy and citing multiple campaign violations and fines. This time, in Spanish. Korge also has sent a few touting himself as the new breath of the Democrat party. In fact, Ladra bets that he has the most mailers of any candidate in any state race so far.

Wouldn’t it be funny if Ana won without mailing a single one?