Re-Newed Francis Suarez video nixes casino shots

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Miami Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez posted another video on YouTube Wednesday in his campaign to unseat Mayor Tomas Regalado.

Or, rather, re-posted an updated old video.

The Suarez camp edited an earlier video about progress and cut out stills of Genting’s planned muti-million dollar casino resort that they wanted to build in downtown Miami.

Shucks. Was it something I said?

Ladra posted on that video right here earlier this month, questioning his choice of images when there were so many cranes and other construction projects that he could have featured. Then, lo and behold, the video changes with newly-edited in shots of cranes and other construction projects.

Or did someone else complain?

“I had a few people mention it and I didn’t want to distract from the message,” Suarez told Ladra Thursday, hours before his “young professionals” fundraiser (more on that in a minute).

While the old video was removed and Ladra couldn’t do a scene by scene comparison, Candidate Suarez’ message seems to be exactly the same: Vote for me, a son of the city, if you want progress and fresh ideas going into what could be a very important time for Miami.

“I was born and raised in the city of Miami so I love the city very deeply,” Suarez starts his narrative, sitting in a modern leather chair very comfortably as the New Age rock music reaches a crescendo through quick-clips of young people walking through a park, a mural in Little Haiti, Candidate Suarez’s elegant sleeve and cufflink, downtown Miami skyscrapers, Miami Heat players at work, Calle Ocho, Candidate Suarez going door to door and talking to residents and, of course, palm trees.

“And it’s a city I’ve seen grown tremendously over the course of the last two decades. We have a city that is on the cusp of greatness with several multi-billion dollar projects about to get started,” he says, and that is where the switch comes with generic images of construction work rather than 

Instead of three images of spiraling worms coming out of the ground to represent the resort — which was planned for the bayfront property sold by my beloved Miami Herald — there are now photos of what one can assume are the Brickell City Center or the Port of Miami project. Very smart switch.

Does this mean he’s going to have to give back that check?

“I hope that’s a joke,” Suarez texted me when Ladra asked him.

I hope he knows that is the right answer.