Miami-Dade Democrats DID consider Rubio crony

Yesterday, Armando looked into rumors that the Miami-Dade Democratic Party had hired an old Marco Rubio consultant-crony, Al Lorenzo, to manage the party's absentee ballot program this November. This Al Lorenzo:

If not for Lorenzo, the guy many are tapping as Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate might never have gotten out of West Miami. [Marco] Rubio acknowledged as much after becoming Florida's first Cuban-American House speaker in 2007; he thanked just two political mentors during his inauguration: Jeb Bush and Al Lorenzo.

Joan McCarter got a hold of the guy in charge of the Miami-Dade party, Richard Lydecker, who flatly denied the rumors:

MD DEC has not considered Mr. Lorenzo for any services of any kind. We have no further comment.

He also cc'd his lawyer on that email, which was just weird. But in any case, that was as blanket a denial as possible.

And completely false.

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