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“This is an administration that has not streamlined anything. Nothing. Nothing. It’s all lip service,” he added, sounding very much like a mayoral candidate.
He talked about the 7,000 cars the county has and the 3,500 properties, including 18 administration buildings. “If we consolidate, we can cut down a lot on the bureaucracy,” he said, adding that there was no reason why the budget has 33,000 billing codes. “That’s ridiculous. That leads to an IT department that has a bigger budget than a library department,” Suarez said, hitting another Gimenez weakness and sounding again like the X Ladra knows and loves.
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Yet, these are only hints. Suarez is still very coy when it comes to his potential mayoral leap. He has long admitted to considering a run for mayor, but he won’t commit. “We’ll see,” he said again Wednesday. “It’s only January.” A Miami Herald story said he had invited supporters to an October event that might serve as the official announcement.
So might we expect more Gimenez criticism from one of the best critics in the next nine months? Ladra says yes. And “hallelujah!”
Because make no mistake: It is not a coincidence 
that Wednesday’s press conference comes on the heels of a really good Raquelita profile in the Miami New Times that sorta positions her as the leading mayoral challenger. All this attention from the victory against the courthouse tax and the attack on Gimenez for mismanagement of the value adjustment board may have moved her up a notch or two on the Miami Herald’s mayoral matrix.
Suarez, who is certainly not shy of the camera lights, wants his equal time. These issues will give him a platform to get that.
Just listen for him on talk radio and TV in both English and Spanish in the next week or so.
Let Ladra be the first to say welcome back to the fray, Commissioner Mayor Sir.
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