Miami Dade Election Mystery: What a tangled web elections weave. By Geniusodespair

Tova Tabak lives in this house in Bergenfield, New Jersey according to the White Pages. Why should you care?

Maybe you don't but Jose Pepe Hernandez from the Julio Robaina Mayoral Campaign cared. He made a complaint against the PAC 'Common Sense Now'. The complaint was made to the State Attorney's Office, Ethics, the Supervisor of Elections, etc. on May 31st.  The Herald said:

"The complaint by Robaina's campaign suggests that if the Committee for Honest Government is behind the call, it did not have enough funds reported on hand to pay for it. And if Common Sense Now is involved, the complaint raises questions about a consulting firm Gimenez's campaign paid for robocalls -- Cornerstone Management Partners, of Bergenfield, N.J. Robaina's campaign said it could not reach the company, registered to a single-family home in New Jersey and not registered as a corporation with the state of Florida."

Paragraph above from  the complaint against Gimenez Campaign 

 

 

 

Putting the robot call aside, I focused on the PAC. I looked up the address of 'Cornerstone Management Partners' in the white pages. The name of the entity doesn't come up at this address in New Jersey.  It is the address of Tova Tabak (17 Westminster Gate, Bergenfield, NJ 07621). That is the address on the financial report for the PAC 'Common Sense Now.' This is the PAC that Carlos Gimenez was once the Chairman of. This PAC is now headed by Miguel Inda-Romero and Joaquin Urquiola is the treasurer. Cornerstone seems to be Roger Stone and his protege Elnantan Rudolph.

Hard to believe Cornerstone received 25 payments from this PAC totaling half a million dollars ($512.300.00) and it remains such a mystery.  I would like to see who endorsed the checks.  This is why I hate PACs, Committees or whatever else you want to call them. They are not the campaign reports of the candidates. They are an adjunct of the campaign where tens of thousands of dollars can be raised from one donor legally, and as you can see,  spent weirdly.  I hope this complaint doesn't come back to bite Gimenez as he was the better candidate and Robaina had two PAC's doing strange nonsense to Gimenez.