Developing story: Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo lo tiene metido con Virginia Key.
It’s not just the ludicrous idea of shipping the city’s homeless to an encampment on the historic property. It’s not just the retaliatory raid he orchestrated on the concessionaire who had been there for five years.
At the city’s first public hearing on the 2022-2023 budget, Carollo suggested not only denying the additional funding requested by the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust to hire five more staffers, but taking back the $300,000 already budgeted.
“This is one trust, one organization that, unlike the Liberty City one and others, has not been run properly,” Carollo said.
Is that true? Or is this just part of the campaign that Carollo seems to have waged against Virginia Key — which some observers believe are steps to have the property eventually developed.
Guy Forchion, executive director of the trust, didn’t much of a chance to rebut or set the record straight.
But chairman Christine King said she wanted more time to see what to do with Virginia Key, which was the historic beach for African-Americans and she wants to take a bigger role in its future. She asked for the budget item on the Virginia Key Trust to be deferred to Sept. 20.
This Tuesday, there will be a rally outside City Hall by activists who are outraged at the idea of housing the homeless there.
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King already voted to demolish Melreese Park. She voted against blacks in the West Grove. She voted to bus homeless AKA blacks to Virginia Key Park. King hates blacks.
@Crime Family:
Not sure how one arrives at a conclusion such as yours, but as I recall it Christine King ran a campaign and won a special election by the will of those who voted. To say she was appointed by Keon is absurd.
Blacks will get no support from Christine King. King already screwed blacks by going along with the Cuban crooks on the commission and King voted to re-district the blacks in the West Grove into a Cuban district where they will be further ignored.
Joe Carollo never lifts a finger unless he is making money illegally for himself.
Virginia Key Park is 800+ acres. It is natural. It should be protected for residents and for tourists. There is a Master Plan that shows respect for nature.
Christine King sided with Joe Carollo and with Alex DLP in the fight over re-districting. King insulted and abused black residents of West Grove who were in D2 for decades. King voted to remove them and she gave them to a Cuban. Blacks objected. King ignored their objections.
Carrollo wants to upzone VK, and then give permission to build. Who benefits: Developers and Carollo’s ” Contributors ” the City of Miami has a 3rd world country political machine metastized with no cure; apparently.
Christine King is a just corrupt Keon Hardemon in a skirt. In fact, King was anointed by Hardemon because Hardemon counted on King keeping Hardemon and all his relatives fat and happy with the taxpayers money.