By Javier Manjarres
It has long been proven that the Broward Republican Executive Committee’s (BREC) leadership, namely Chairman Richard ‘Dick’ Denapoli, Vice Chairwoman Colleen Stolberg, and Treasurer Mark McCarthy have actually worked against certain Republican candidates in contested primaries, and the latest candidate in their crosshairs is congressional candidate Karen Harrington.
Harrington is positioning herself to defeat Democrat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in November’s general election, and Harrington finds herself the target of a BREC campaign that is actively seeking her defeat in her contested primary.
BREC Chairman Richard ‘Dick’ DeNapoli dislikes Harrington because she did not support his 2010 BREC Chairman’s race, a race that saw DeNapoli and his cohorts openly threatening BREC in a pathetic attempt to garner votes or disuade members from voting for his opponents.
DeNapoli’s support across the county is razor thin, so much so that former supporters of his have been coming out of the woodwork to throw their once hailed ‘leader’ under the bus.
Below is a screenshot of the Broward GOP supporting a Facebook group that was set up by supporters and employees of Ozzie deFaria. Yes, the same Ozzie deFaria who was arrested a few years back for repeat Violence and Battery. Note that in order to be a member of this group you first have to ask to join the group and then wait to be accepted, and the Broward GOP Facebook page asked to be a member of the group.
The group’s name #karenisnotconservative, and it is anchored by a website that lists unsubstantiated allegations against Harrington and also posted a phony ‘mugshot’ of yours truly which deFaria has had to remove from the site after it was proven that deFaria illegally obtained my 2010 Florida driver’s license photo and used the picture to fabricate a phony mugshot, which may result in deFaria facing criminal prosecution.
As a result, deFaria has been taken completely off message and has unfortunately reverted to a more ‘scorched earth’ style campaign.
deFaria’s Worker Bees
Also in the screencapture, you will see four very familiar group members listed.
The first is deFaria campaign staffer Starla Munn Brown. Brown first supported McCalister in the U.S. Senate race and then dumped him to support George LeMieux’s recently ended campaign for Senate. Brown and her fellow diminutive staffer Buzz Jacobs are famous for disseminating libelous information on Twitter and Facebook.
Janeen Capizola is oddly another one of deFaria’s stooges that showed a lot of promise with her grassroots outreach until she aligned herself with Brown and Ellen Snyder.
Ellen Snyder is one of the more questionable political grassroots operatives in Palm Beach County. Also known as ‘Conservative Diva‘, Snyder is best known for equating Senator Marco Rubio to President Obama. Snyder made her bones in politics the good ol’ fashioned way- by threats and character assassination.
Then you have Boris Balaban, Congressman Allen West’s photographer and wannabee videographer/writer, who is assumed to be on the deFaria for Congress payroll.
It is hard to comprehend why these characters promote deFaria and his website consisting of unsubstantiated allegations against Harrington and a doctored up phony mugshot using an actual Florida Driver’s License of a private citizen and yet do not flinch at the glaring fact that deFaria, the candidate seeking to represent South Florida in Congress was himself arrested for ‘repeat’ violence and battery.
So now the truth is out- the Broward GOP, once again, is actively working against Republican candidates rather than remaining neutral in a contested primary, and hence all future claims its current members make about “supporting all Republican candidates” should not be taken seriously.
**Update-As expected, DeNapoli has pulled the Broward GOP from deFaria’s site. Too late, everyone knows what they did.
**Second update-Expect DeNapoli to say that ‘someone’ added the Broward GOP to this site. Yes, they were added, but the admin of the Broward GOP had to accept. In addition, everyone on Facebook is notified when they are added to a group, right? Also, if they were ‘just added’, why weren’t there more people added? Again, even if you are added to a group, you have to accept.
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24 Responses to “Broward GOP’s Campaign Against Karen Harrington”
Little rICHARD and the whole BREC just got busted! There a bunch of Moderate Charlie Crist Republicans anyway…
If I was Karen Harrington I would stay far away from DeNapoli and his gang.
Why is it “Dick” DeNapoi and his satellites only support losers?
And another thing . is that “Dick” a proper noun or an adjective?
It’s amazing to watch Republicans in Broward being destroyed by their own party. Is this guy Denippli a Democrat plant ?
Come on. Do you really feel that these people have such a hard on to do you and Karen so wrong? Seems very petty.
You are right, it sounds ridiculously petty BUT that is exactly how Denopololi operates. Dick is a petty – petty – New York Democrat. He decided to register as a Republican later on in FL. He has been able to dupe few passionate Americans into buying his nonsense. Worrisome thing is that the guy has psychological issues. Instead of seeing a shrink he weeps to seek pity from vulnerable older women appealing to their motherly instincts. He is a really good con artist and it works.
This action by BREC leaders is nothing new. In 2010 Bob Lowry was known to be the favorite of our BREC leaders in violation of BREC rules. Then after Karen won the primary BREC, again in violation of rules gave her no help. What will Richard and cronies do when Karen wins the primary this time?
To defeat Debbie Wasserman Schultz we need the most electable candidate and that candidate is Juan Eliel Garcia.
Vote Juan Eliel Garcia for Congress District 23!
http://www.juanelielforcongress.com
Juan who? LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Visit his website and learn his name Mr. Gop because he is the only candidate in this race with the qualities to win this election and remove Debbie from office.
Vote Juan Eliel Garcia for Congress District 23!
http://www.juanelielforcongress.com
That’s what I said!
That’s apparently all you know how to say Liz. It’s quite entertaining…and pathetic.
Sounds like the Mafia is running the Broward County GOP.
Ellen Snyder? You mean to tell me that FAT PIG is still around?! All she will do is screw up Ozzie’s failing campaign like she does with everyone else campaign. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am definitely FOR Karen Harrington–maybe I should
say I’m NOT–seems like everyone I am for ends up dropping out of their races!
Karen Harrington is not leaving, she is 1000% working as hard as she can and God willing going to Congress.
All of us volunteers are working hard to make it happen as well so you have nothing to fear Pamela :-}
http://www.FIREDEBBIE.com
I feel queezy reading this article Javier because you have bashed my friends Starla and Boris, who I consider to be my friends and fought with them for Rick Santorum’s candidancy. Alas, I have friends who don’t like each other and I’m stuck in the middle again.
I didn’t bash Boris. Starla is a parasite. I can show you proof that she is a bottom feeder
Will Karen be attending Thursday’s debate in Davie? BREC sent an email that said she has not confirmed.
No. Karen had a prior fundraiser planed out of town before BREC made the dates for the debate…
I doubt Karen would bother to attend a “debate” connected in any way with BREC. They are liable to do something to make her look bad. And in any case, she is far and away the front runner. Why bother?
Meeting 6-28-12 GOP Unity?????? To see Ozzie defaria stand at the podium with this sign in front and encourage people to BOO louder when it was announced Karen was not there…made me ill. The way that Denapoli announced she was not there was done in a negative manner also. Very creepy boys. Oh and Ozzie??? he get’s mad real fast!
Why does it make a difference who is elected as the Republican Nominee? They all have said that they will vote yes on Conservative Republican sponsored bills. I don’t see any difference.
Javier, I tend to agree with you most of the time but you are sorely mistaken when it comes to J. Capizola. The only thing we guaranteed is that the Palms West Republican Club President is usually under the influence of alcohol and she too will fall flat on her face as she is her own worst enemy. Yet, another PBC loser.