DCM: Serra is the godfather of 'dirty blogs'

247 "It was only a matter of time before José Serra's name surfaced in the Implicante scandal, a despicable website that lives, or lived, off spreading infamy and slander online against Dilma, Lula, and the PT. Implicante's modus operandi is pure Serra. Serra is the kind of guy capable of, behind someone's back, having a hired pen write an article in a friendly newspaper linking Aécio to cocaine. 'Poison, governor' was the obscenely dirty article title. The governor was Aécio, who, in 2010, was then competing with Serra for the PSDB presidential nomination. That's how Serra works. Anyone who has worked in newsrooms, like me, knows very well his explosive combination of excessive ambition and lack of character."

The warning comes from journalist Paulo Nogueira, of Diário do Centro do Mundo (read the full article). hereHe points out that one of Serra's disciples has her fingerprints on the Implicante scandal: "Cristina Ikonomidis was the deputy secretary of Institutional Communication in Serra's government and, as such, a member of his inner circle. Cristina personally coordinated Serra's visits to public schools in São Paulo. When Washington wanted to know more about Serra, since he had a real chance of reaching the Planalto Palace, Cristina was a source of information, as shown by a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks," he says.

By associating herself with Fernando Gouveia at Appendix to also benefit from the perks that the PSDB provides to friends, Paulo Nogueira points out, "Cristina proved to be an excellent student of Serra." "The expression 'dirty blogs' is attributed to Serra, essentially directed at bloggers who rightly see him as a despicable politician. Well, here we have a unique situation. The persecutor of 'dirty blogs' is, through his goddaughter Cristina, the godfather of the dirtiest of blogs," he states.