Karen Harrington’s Campaign Manager, Anthony Bustamante, Heckled Ozzie DeFaria during the debate.
In what comes as no surprise to those who know that Congressional Candidate Karen Harrington is paying blogger Javier Manjarres to attack her opponents, the Shark Tank just released an article talking about Ozzie deFaria’s debate performance at the Miami Tea Party last night. (It must be about the 20th time Mr. Manjarres has attacked Ozzie DeFaria.)
In what is both recurring and predicable, Mr. Manjarres continues to present half-truths and downright lies. Let’s examine some of them here, since we have become the well-respected antidote to biased bloggers like Manjarres.
Manjarres loves to make hay of other candidates battling each other. This time he directed his attention to Mr. Kaufman’s and Mr. DeFaria’s scuffle about whether Joe Kaufman received an endorsement from Herman Cain. Fact #1: Herman Cain has not issued an “endorsement” in this race. Cain has named both deFaria and Joe Kaufman to his Army of Davids. Cain has also asked people to support Mr. Kaufman in a video. Those in politics know that when someone issues an endorsement, they use the word “endorsement.” Anything short of that is not an official endorsement.
Fact #2: Karen Harrington supporters (about 30-40) were in the room of about 70 to 80 total people. They could be easily identified by the shirts they were wearing. Patrick Castronovo, Ms. Harrington’s field coordinator, and Anthony Bustamante, her campaign manager, were among the chief hecklers. Manjarres writes: “deFaria was then jeered, and someone from the audience called out “talk
about your arrest record.” That person was Anthony Bustamante (picture left), Karen Harrington’s campaign manager, who yelled out “What About Your Arrest?” So while Mr. Manjarres acts like he doesn’t know who the heckler was, it’s clear that he knew it was Bustamante, who travels with Harrington and Manjarres frequently. This is conduct quite unbecoming of a campaign manager. The moderator did not let Mr. DeFaria answer the question because of time constraints, so DeFaria answered the charge during his time during the next question. DeFaria said “Let’s Talk about the arrest.” He said “I have never shown any violence to any woman and I will stand by that to my grave.” Let’s remind everyone was again that the case against Ozzie was dismissed…as in thrown out. In the United States, you are, after all, still innocent until proven guilty.
Fact #3: When Kaufman was talking about someone buying the election, he referred to how someone can buy it with their own money or with loans. This was a reference to Karen Harrington’s loans and well as Mr. DeFaria’s large personal contributions to his campaign. We wouldn’t expect Manjarres to point that out.
Fact #4: Mr. DeFaria’s use of the word “asshole” was his quoting of a Harrington supporter that heckled Mr. DeFaria during the debate by saying “You’re an asshole” to Mr. DeFaria. Mr. DeFaria simply said “I was called ‘asshole’ by this nice young lady.”
Mr. Manjarres’ article then ends with his typical method of complimenting Harrington and the other candidates while attacking DeFaria, whom the Harrington campaign must be the most concerned about. Let’s not forget that Mr. Manjarres stated that both Gineen Bresso and DeFaria could be “democratic plants” in his recent article. Manjarres has tried to butter up Garcia and Bresso in the hopes of interviewing them and making them look bad. Garcia fell for it and did an interview with Manjarres which only made Garcia look bad. Bresso is smart enough to avoid interviewing with someone supporting her opponent.
As an aside, Manjarres has a lot of nerve to say that Bresso, who served as the General Counsel of the Young Republican National Federation, is a Democratic plant. Given that Harrington only became a Republican days before filing to run for Congress, we think Manjarres is exhibiting what Sigmund Freud would call a “psychological projection”. According to Wikipedia, it’s a “psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people.” [Our Aside is hereby ended]
In this latest article Manjarres claims that “Harrington had a solid debate, and Bresso, Garcia and Kaufman turned in very respectable performances as well. … [but that] Ozzie deFaria’s performance was simply embarrassing and reinforced the perception that he is not ready for prime time.”
What a shock coming from someone getting paid by Harrington!
All in all, the debate was pretty much a waste of time. There were very few people in attendance who didn’t come to the debate supporting a candidate already. The Harrington campaign was up to their old tricks, having hecklers in the audience disrupt the proceedings so that Manjarres could write something negative about Harrington’s opponents.
Here is the question all must answer for them selves. Karen Harrington has associated with thugs and low life her entire campaign. Karen mean streak long ago drowned out the decency of the real people in the district, she thinks everyone is just meat under her henchmen’s boot.
Karen separate yourself from the thugs you call campaign staff. Bustamante, Castronovo and Manjarres are all Miami political mafia. The people of the 23 rd demand more of you.
Javier “broke” the story on my second house. The second house mentioned in local newspaper months ago. Go cut my grass lawn boy!
Patrick Castronovo couldn’t have been a heckler. He was busy stuffing Vienna sausages in his hairy snout. Forget the rest, vote for the best. Vote for Juan!!!
To see that you are becoming immature enough to insult a field director from another campaign by calling him “fat” is deplorable. It is also quite sad that I, a 15 year old, have to point this out to you. In other words… Grow up.
Hate to say it …but ozzie doesn’t need javier to make him look bad …..that he does that all on his own by refusing to answer simple questions and not bein straight forward. Also juan eliel has never looked bad in an interview by javier or anyone else. He is the only candidate with the values to take this country where it needs to go. Vote juan eliel garcia for congress district 23 !
Juan is a great guy. But interviewing with the Shark Tank was foolish. The picture that Shark Tank uses of him with a contorted face does nothing but hurt Juan. You shouldn’t fall for Manjarres’ BS where he tries to be nice to a candidate he’s against. It’s all a trap. The fact is that Manjarres doesn’t consider Juan a threat so he’s not attacking Juan. They are most worried about DeFaria hence they are attacking the hell out of him with the hecklers and stuff mentioned in the article. Believe me – Juan is a great guy, but he shouldn’t be fooled to think that shark Tank is doing him any favors.
Juan might just be the guy, since maybe Harrington and Ozzie and Joe are damaged goods. Still curious about Bresso too.
Bresso is the only qualified candidate to take on DWS. Check out her experience & background. You won’t be dissapointed or disagree!
Thanks, Alex
I assure you Juan is your man.
Check out his website at http://www.juanelielforcongress.com and see why he is the only candidate for the job!
Juan is a nice guy, but it would be a wasted vote. He can’t and won’t win. He has no money, no name ID, and no support. Sorry, but Vote Bresso for Congresso!
Juan is a great guy, but aside from that he has the diverse background and values needed to win.Thinking that voting for Juan is a wasting a vote is ignorant. If you are familiar with our district, then you would know that it is begging for a Conservative, as well as someone who can relate to the Hispanic community and get their votes- which will ultimately win the election. He hosts a radio show and has regular listeners who know him by name and tune in every morning to hear him. He has been endorsed by strong leaders, and has had a vary large group of supporters throughout the campaign. Sounds like a winner to me!
JUAN ELIEL GARCIA FOR CONGRESS- DISTRICT 23!!!
Was in attendance at the debate. JM knows full well who made the rude comments in the audience as he stood in the back of the restaurant where he could observe everything. I must say, Harrington is listening to dummies . For sure they will walk away with the money and leave her deeply in debt. Can’t help but think she will get what she deserves.
Very interesting that a paid tracker can have press credentials and keep them with the distortions and lies he spreads.
I would like to hear a lie that Manjarres has spread. I personally can not name a single one and believe that is an excellent reporter. One reason he is ripping on Ozzie some much is because deFaria actually made a fake mugshot of him. He literally took his driver’s license photo and made it black and white. Lastly when it comes to his pay, there is none. He is simply a blogger using his freedom of speech. I say good for him.
It was curious that Manjarres spent some pixels at the end of his blog post in an attempt to re mediate Kaufman’s image. Seems Harrington is taking the pressure off Kaufman in an attempt to make it easier for him to join her campaign post primary. Should she win with out Jewish Crossover support, she’ll need Kaufman’s developed reach in to that community. Beware of enemies bearing gifts Joe.
“Politics makes for strange bedfellows!”
Karen is not the enemy of Joe. Debbie is (or should be) the enemy of all right minded republicans. Would Karen appreciate Joe support, of course. Personally however, I can name much more then a handful of Jewish people that are voting for Karen.
Please help us all have a fighting chance to dump Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz! Save the drama for your mama & Vote GINEEN BRESSO for Congress!
Go to http://gineenbresso.com and donate now! Together WE CAN take our nation back!
“WIN WITH GIN”
Harrington staff = unprofessional
Supporters = rude
Candidate = all of the above
You could not make that crew up if you tried. Strange collection of individuals. That blog guy should be paid by the other candidates to keep sinking her ship. She is drowning in his cesspool.
What if it was not Bustamante that made the quote. I was at the debate and was actually standing about two feet away from him when I heard this… It was NOT him. I would like you to know that I am a Karen supporter and even when talking to the other candidates, remain decorous. And about Karen being rude, she is one of the farthest things from it. If you have seen anything negative sent out from her, it has been to protect herself from Ozzie’s “smear” campaign.
Love it when you guys expose the garbage on the Shark Tank! Keep up the good work!
glad some people have the guts to take on the extortionist Javier
An extortionist is someone who gets paid for abusing their power. I see no proof that Mr. Manjarres is getting paid, therefore, calling him an extortionist is not justified what so ever.