Watching Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo denounce the repression of the corrupt Cuban regime is like watching elite Cuban officials defend communism while they live like millionaires.
¡Que hipócrita!
Carollo has abused his four years in office and position in the city to bully and harass his political opponents or critics, real or imagined. He retaliates against anyone he believes has done him wrong. He uses the city and his position to do so. He is a dictator and would grab more power if he could.
Just ask Bill Fuller, the owner of Ball and Chain, the iconic Calle Ocho bar that Carollo has shut down, using the code enforcement department, because Fuller hosted a fundraiser for an opposing candidate in 2017. Fuller is suing Carollo in federal court for violating his freedom of speech.
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Just ask David Winker, an activist attorney who helped the recall effort against Carollo and had code enforcement come by his house and illegally cite him after a 96-page “anonymous” dossier was distributed.
Just ask the residents of Silver Bluff who had their streets closed for a minority of homeowners who support the commissioner.
Just ask the voters who got knocks on their doors from Carollo lackeys telling them to take their recall petition signatures back and/or say they were coerced into signing them.
Do these tactics sound familiar? They are the tools of autocrats who want to stay in power at all costs. Like those in the Cuban regime.
“I am the grandson of Cuban families, both from the side of my mother and father,” Fuller told Ladra. “Both families faced the oppression and injustice of a corrupt regime. My mother fled as a Pedro Pan. My uncle lost his life on a Cuban firing squad fighting for the legacy of what his family had built.
“Sixty years later, my family and the families of my partner face a similar injustice and corruption at the hands of the city of Miami. Carollo is no different than the Cuban regime. He rules by fear and intimidation to exact revenge against his enemies and fill his pockets for himself and his friends with ill-gotten gains. Others he extorts for cash in the name of his failed “affordable housing” plan.
“From the mayor to the entry level staff, they’ll turn a blind eye to his corruption, for fear of being bullied, or worse, terminated. His support of the Cuban SOS movement and that from other city officials is hypocrisy and yet another moment for them to bask in their own bullshit.”
Crazy Joe Carollo is not just a hypocrite, he’s an opportunist. This is just the latest of a long history pandering to the base Cuban vote. Remember when he blasted Gente de Zona because they still had ties to the island and, allegedly, were tolerated by the regime? He actually used his city position to have them them removed from a New Year’s Eve line-up featuring Pitbull in 2019. And didn’t they take away the key to the city given to the band?
You know, censoring artists he doesn’t agree with. Like they do in Cuba.
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Well, seems like now that their “Patria y Vida” song has sprouted an uprising, Carollo is into them.
All of this would be funny if it weren’t so sad and serious for the targets of his repressive wrath, if Joe Carollo wasn’t a dictator himself.
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Joe Carollo is the Perfection of Rottenness. An aggressive fanatic, narcissistic, lacking total empathy towards others.
The fact he is in power elucidates the unbearable lightness of ignorance, cretinism and undisciplined voters.
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Too many corrupt Cubans in Miami. Something in the water?
Crazy Joe is the communist
I recall the adults in the 60s when I was in elementary school constantly saying “we have to help the Cubans”; my school even went so far as to make taking Spanish class mandatory so we would become “bi-lingual”. All that help led to a complete takeover of Dade County via stealth and nepotism. Here we are in 2021 lamenting the likes of Crazy Joe Carollo; Cuban mafia poster child and fake former Marine, a product of well intended but naive 1960s “Anglo” help. Que lastima!
Bully ,
I just looked up when he was kicked out of the police and ONLY here outside of an actual Latin American country could this guy become a career politico .
”His tenure as a PSO was rocky. He was given a written reprimand for insensitivity for sticking a cartoon of the Klu Klux Klan into the mailboxes of several police officers. The Miami New Times noted that in August 1976, Carollo “was again cited, this time for excessive use of sick leave.” Joe resigned as a PSO on September 8, 1976.
His commander at the airport district, dropped this evaluation into his personnel file upon his separation from the force: “Based upon continuing problems in the areas of attitude, attendance, adherence to rules and regulations, and his less-than-satisfactory performance, Officer Carollo is not recommended for re-employment.”
”Joe Carollo was arrested in 2001 for hitting his wife so hard he left a golf-ball-size welt on her head. One of the then Miami mayor’s young daughters called 911 and begged, “Help, my dad is hurting my mom! Please come now, please!” as a woman’s screams were heard in the background. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office eventually dropped domestic violence charges against Carollo because he agreed to attend anger-management courses.”
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”The last time Joe Carollo sat on Miami’s city commission, the police chief accused him of — no joke — trying to obtain an illegal concealed-weapons permit for a visiting sheikh tied to the Saudi royal family; telling the police he was being stalked and calling them into “secret” meetings that he would then refuse to show up for; accusing city officials of spying on him; repeatedly meddling in internal police matters; and, in the words of then-Chief Kenneth Harms, trying to “manipulate the system for his personal advantage and denigrate those career appointees who have the ethical fortitude to resist.”
Joe Carollo has been a bully for 40 years. There is a reason he was kicked out of the Police Dept. Fidel Castro loved to harass and jail his opponents. Carollo took notes. Just another Cuban bully.
Corolla is a filthy, disgusting creature just like all other Cuban American politicians.
They pander relentlessly to their constituents and believe in a failed policy that has done nothing at all in Cuba for 62 years.
Joe Carollo lied , years ago he said he had been a Marine .
Someone who was a Marine pointed this out in an old post and I looked it up .
The Military / Marines have no record of him which is a nice way of saying he is a comemierda mentiroso but here politicos lie all they want , get caught and no big deal just move on to another lie.
We are an extension of Latin America with zero standards .
Actually Marines do not say they were Marines ” Once a Marine always a Marine ” so do not want to insult anyone here . Think 2 Marines post here .
I was in the Army and we say ” Once we get out good riddance ” , lol well I and my squad did .
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” What’s up with (Cuban) Mayor Francis Suarez running unopposed for Re-election?”
There was someone who sometimes posts here and active in Coral Gables Maya Joli who is running against him but Suarez has so much money from developers.
I do think he was beatable until now because this issue in Cuba has helped his popularity with those who vote on that which I would think is 80 percent of Cubans .
This has helped his approval ratings as here it is a BIG issue .
” He is a dictator and would grab more power if he could.”
Sums up most of the Miami Cuban Cosa Nostra Politico’s .
As far as voters go be it right / left , there is a saying ” I hate Dictators who abuse power UNLESS I agree with them “.
I’m not saying everyone agrees with the above but I think it does apply to most .
You can be against the Cuban government and also against these Miami self serving Cuban Cosa Nostra con artists . It does not have to one or the other .
Clever they are as far as for decades using the Cuba libre issue to stay in power and positioning themselves so if you speak out against them you then must support the oppression in Cuba .
Sadly it has worked for decades .
Best thing that could happen in Cuba AND Miami is never a Cuban politician again and yes I was born in Cuba but was not raised in Miami , what goes on here in corruption alone is obscene , so unnatural in any other part of Florida .
Ethnic pride is not voting for self serving ,con artists simply because they are of the same ethnicity .
It isn’t just Cubans here fooled by this , my 2 sisters live in California and you now see the same in local politics with Mexicans , see the same in Puerto Rican cities , etc , etc .
What a disgrace but here these assorted Commissioners are in a category of above laws , being owned by special interest via ” consultation fee’s ” and other favors that you do not see yet in other areas .
There are usually three (3) sides to every story. The plaintiff, the defendant and the facts. Not to take away thunder from this direct exposè on an elected oficial but besides the obvious “political payback” reasons, could there be other underlying issues? Such as over capacity number of patrons allowed at peak times? Excessive alcohol sales which spills over into adjacent public spaces? The valet/parking logistics? I am sure there are others, just asking not to ignore the obvious impact on the local residents.
What about the Gables mayor blocking an artist in the City Beautiful. I thought he was supposed to be a new type of politician?
Anyone see the Joe Carollo and Alex DLP knife fight during the City of Miami July 22nd, 2021 Commission Meeting? Starts around 11:30 am? They stabbed each other a dozen times. Then they went at each other again numerous times throughout the day. Bloody. Via Cuba!
What’s up with (Cuban) Mayor Francis Suarez running unopposed for Re-election? The Cuban dude got $5 Million from lobbyists and developers AND the Cuban dude HAS NO OPPONENT. Anyone smell corruption?
Joe Carollo is a textbook example of Cuban corruption run amuck in Miami.