David Who? Rivera is the Gift the Keeps Giving

David Rivera cannot tell the truth about anything. It's just incredible.

The newest in a slew of scandals from this alleged woman-beater come courtesy the Miami Herald, who called the agency which supposedly provided Mr. Rivera with his main source of income outside being a legislator. Their response?

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``We do not have Mr. Rivera nor the corporations you referred to in our records,''

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The entity in question is the U.S. Agency for International Development. In Rivera's financials, he claimed USAID used his as a consultant, or something. When contacted, he said the discrepancy must have something to with his company Interamerican Government Relations, a firm which he is apparently unwilling to reveal very much information about at all.

My favorite part of this? Rivera's explanation is truly worse than the original lie. What he is saying is that he actually was working through a business he owned, but failed to disclose in his financial disclosures any time between 2003 and 2009. Even in the midst of a new scandal, he refuses to identify any of the principals in this Puerto Rican company he allegedly founded. Per the Herald's reporting, this company apparently exists, but there is no real information in public documents there. I can't find a website for Interamerican government relations, or even a supposed mission of this company, which is weird if it has anything to so with, say, interamerican government relations. I would expect a company doing international business in that field to be pretty wired in.

So his real source of income is actually a foreign company he founded but will reveal nothing about. And yes, this is the guy who called Democrat Joe Garcia a "henchman of Castro" on Spanish-language radio hoping no mainstream media would tune in.

Why didn't he disclose anything about this company he owns? Why did he lie about working for USAID, a federal government agency which indeed does have a website and which has to provide a lot of information to the public? Perhaps he makes less than $1,000 in income beyond the $30,000 he pulls in as a state legislator, which would explain how he and Marco Rubio ended up with a home going into foreclosure.

Joe Garcia must win this race. Rivera is just too easy pickings. This may be the Democrat's biggest pickup opportunity in the country, and is certainly the best shot at taking a seat in Florida. We just need to seal the deal.