Miami Shores Democratic state Rep. Daphne Campbell didn't want to answer questions about a Medicaid-fraud. Circling the incident: El Sharko, of The Shark Tank Blog (nice enough to catch my disheveled appearance). Here are the two vids.
*** A note about the two videos. I normally don't use the first person "I" in blogs (and never in stories). I make an exception here because I'm the disheveled subject of a video. I've never used the phrase "CaputoCam," but that's the nickname it was given --perhaps first by outgoing House Republican leader Adam Hasner (now a U.S. Senate candidate) in 2010 when he gave a farewell speech, noting "perhaps we could have done without CaputoCam." The name stuck. Charlie Crist's former spokeswoman, Erin Isaac, preferred the name "CreepyCam."
I began using the camera because lawmakers often wondered why we couldn't get straight answers out of Crist. So I decided to show them how artful a dodger he was. Some are less artful.
Consider the case of Campbell.
Before the cameras went on, Campbell repeatedly refused interview requests with Miami Herald reporters (here's the first story). At Jackson Memorial Hospital Friday evening, where she attended a ceremonial bill signing, Campbell and her associate said I needed to call and make an appointment. She said she had a plane to catch to Pensacola. She then scurried over to hospital lobbyist Ron Book, who was standing next to Republican House leader Carlos Lopez-Cantera, whom she suggested had complicity in the line of questions. He didn't. Lopez-Cantera knew nothing of the Herald investigation.
As the camera went on, Lopez-Cantera pointed out to Campbell that she needed to stand on her own and face the press: "You're a state representative."
Indeed.
good job Marc! well done because she's a jerk!
Posted by: lmmd | July 04, 2011 at 12:02 PM
I make no apologies for Campbell. She's a crook and should be a "former public official" as soon as the indictment is handed down and she is convicted. What a travesty she is...
Posted by: Johnny Hothead | July 04, 2011 at 07:31 PM
She accuses Carlos Lopez-Cantera of setting her up? This is the same woman who has been telling people that Lopez-Cantera promised her $25,000 in campaign contributions from pro-life republicans. Daphne Campbell is a criminal! Follow the rest of the story at Facebook.com/DaphneCampbellWatch
Posted by: Daphne Campbell Watch | July 07, 2011 at 11:56 PM
Ask her about the group homes she and Hubert operated for the developmentally disabled!!! How many deaths occured before her licenses for these homes were pulled by the State of FL?? As a REGISTERED NURSE, she is a disgrace. The whole family would loook good in stripes!!!
Posted by: TC Fast | July 29, 2011 at 12:05 AM