July 4th Anti-Obama Demonstration in Miami. By Geniusofdespair

It was a T Party demonstration on July 4th. BUT, much of the noise came from Alice Pena's  8 1/2 square mile group that really couldn't give a hoot about Obama. They were there to fight off regulation on their land bordering the Everglades. Alice Pena is running for County Commissioner in District 9. I don't know about any of you, but a Property Rights, Tea-Bagger crazy isn't who I want on the County Commission.  Read the sign. Do not vote for Alice Pena. Let me say it again: DO NOT VOTE FOR ALICE PENA IN COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 9.

Need to see a video?

Castro is also pictured on the left side of the sign out of view. Read the sign carefully (July 4th).

Pena and the others of the 8 1/2 square mile area always show up as a group.

Is it any wonder that Pena and her wacky neighbors clash with the Army Corps, Derm, The Interior Department and the South Florida Water Management District? Look where they live.

Alice Pena: When Does A Glamour Shot Cross the Line to Lying? By Geniusofdespair

Suzanne Somers, Alice Pena, and also Alice Pena

Alice Pena is using the middle photo on her campaign videos and website. The only problem is, she doesn't really look like that. Pena looks like the photo on the right. In another post, where I posted the middle picture, people were calling Pena a "Hottie." I scratched my head. Pena is so far from a hottie it is ridiculous. Granted I never saw her smile before - except in that middle picture.  Pena is not an unattractive woman for her age but she certainly doesn't look like that middle picture at all. She is in her early 70's.

I am fine with the way she looks in real life. I am not so happy with the drastic glamor shot that doesn't depict her at all. As one of my readers said: "She looks like Suzanne Somers."

Not quite in real life.

I am afraid people will look at her campaign picture and vote for her simply because she appears to be attractive and she is Hispanic (the district is more Hispanic than ever). Alice Pena is the wrong candidate for District 9. She should stay home with her chickens.

Candidate Alice Pena: Snake Oil Anyone? Or How About Lying Under Oath? An EOM Investigative Report. By Geniusofdespair

Did Alice Pena, running for County Commission District 9, file an inaccurate Financial Disclosure form even though a notarized Oath of accuracy was required?

Am I calling Alice Pena a LIAR?

Found this on YouTube notice Pena says she is President of Adge Pharmaceuticals. She also makes these claims on her campaign website.  I added the photo of what she really looks like as two male readers were calling the 72 year old Pena a 'hottie' (BTW, I am the 'dislike' on her YouTube video.)

From YouTube Video.

Alice Pena is the President of Adge Pharmaceuticals. The Adge website says it is home of the Nutrifort family of products.  Nutrifort? Is it the Snake Oil of the 21st Century? It is some sort of nutritional supplement. Seems to have originated in Vietnam. Appears to be a mixture of B Vitamins and Iron. Adge gives absolutely no information about anything on its website.  Adge is not really what you would think of when you picture a Pharmaceutical Company, i.e. it is not about real drugs.

Only products on Adge Website.

Pena lists her home address for the Corporation. Alice uses the company as an example of putting Floridians back to work. You would think, in that case, it was making plenty of money, with scads of staff, however, the company is not even listed on her financial disclosure form.

Note this is notarized with an OATH. Wouldn't that be major lying? In Part E I would argue the selling of these supplements is a franchise as Alice Pena doesn't manufacture them but I might be wrong on E.  The company is in Viet Nam according to their website.

I looked up the corporate papers to see if Alice was the President of Adge Pharmaceuticals for a while.  The company was reinstated in 2005 so I looked up that year and Alice was President.

Alice Pena was the President in 2005.

I thought maybe because she didn't claim the company on the disclosure form, under oath, that she is not still the President, even though she claimed to be the President on YouTube and her website.  I looked up her most current records with the Department of State and she is indeed still President of this vitamin-type supplement company that she calls "Pharmaceutical".

She was President of Adge in records on Sunbiz as early as 1998.

Even if this company is not making much money, it should have been listed on the Financial Disclosure form as she has an interest in the Corporation and she did list $2,000 from Mutual of Omaha as a PRIMARY source of income on her form. However, if it IS NOT MAKING ANY MONEY, after all these years, why keep it in business, what does it say about her business  sense? And how could she, with a straight face, use this company as an example of her business acumen in her video and on her website? Alice Pena is lying either way: 1) Making it sound like it is a big profitable company, putting people to work, when it is not, or 2) It is a profitable company and she is not reporting income from it (this one would be under oath).

This isn't the first time Pena has been caught lying. I hear her lie routinely at meetings, distorting the truth, it makes me want to barf. Ask any environmentalist about her lack of accurate statements and her untruthfulness at meetings.  She wouldn't recognize a fact if she fell over one because she is so busy bending the truth to fit her mindset. A conservation chair of one group said about her: "She is anti-environment, anti-national parks, anti-Everglades restoration, anti-Army Corps of Engineers, and anti-South Florida Water Management District." I guess we can add DERM to that list now (Feb. 21st County Commission Meeting). But I digress.

Pena says she will: "eliminate mismanagement and demand accountability and transparency from our county's government." How about demanding some accountability and transparency first from herself? Lying on a financial disclosure form under oath is a MAJOR problem for me. If she is not lying on her form because this Pharmaceutical company make no money, then she is lying to voters on her website and YouTube video, with her claim about the company.  And, since she says she is earning only about $20,000 a year I don't think her claims of having the "Knowledge" and the "Tools" necessary to deal with our County's $6 billion dollar budget are accurate.  You don't get those "tools" and "knowledge" from an egg farm making $16,000 a year and a vitamin supplement company making who knows what.

Vote for Dennis Moss in District 9. He is the clear choice.  For Pena supporters like Norman Braman: this is serious business backing candidates who don't pass the first test of plausibility: their own campaign qualifying documents.   

(Hit Read more for a screen shot of her website in case they take it down)

Alice Pena: Her Finances. By Geniusofdespair

In her qualifying documents for the District 9 Seat, Alice Pena said her house on 4.3 acres is worth $435,000. The Property Appraiser puts the value at $380,199. Pena claims a mortgage of $195,000 from Bank of America. I did find two Dept. of Agriculture mortgages from 2008 for $87,000 and $75,000. There was a foreclosure going on in 2009 but things were settled in in July of 2011. She makes $21,000 from her farming (eggs and other stuff) and $18,000 from Social Security. She is a Republican, no surprise there and she is 70 years old. She paid $3,788 in taxes in 2011 (she got a $56,430 agricultural benefit, in 2010 it was $105,930).


She claims DERM staff tresspasses. What is she threatening to do to DERM people at 1:11 on the counter? What could she possibly mean? The woman is paranoid. Lee Hefty later (not shown) describes how DERM used the court system in enforcement actions. The people Alice is talking about have had their day in court. It wasn't so long ago that Alice was charging the Army Corps with atrocities, when they were actually buying out some residents with our tax dollars.