Is it from the horse’s mouth? Or is it propaganda?
Miami City Manager Art Noriega recorded an 85-second video and posted it on YouTube two weeks ago saying that this was only the first of a series in which he would lay out the details of projects, programs, legislation and other city business. You know, for transparency’s sake, he says.
Bet he won’t talk, however, about the how the city is fighting the court garnishing Commissioner Joe Carollo’s salary to pay for the $63.5 million judgement against him for harassing Little Havana business owners and violating their rights.
There’s a link to his message on the top of the city’s website.
“Hey everyone! This is Art Noriega, city manager for the city of Miami,” he starts. “Sort of spent the last three and a half or so years in this job as city manager really kind of trying to avoid social media, really trying to stay a little more under the radar, focus more on the job. But I think its probably the appropriate time to sort of reintroduce my self to social media with an oppoorutntiy to sort of create some transparency for our residents business owners, our partners in the city.”
So only sort of and creatively transparent. Dude, someone needs to write you a script.
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Noriega, who looks uncomfortable, says he expects to record every week or two “and sort of peel back the onion a little bit and show what it is, how it’s happening, where it’s happening, and hopefully create an opportunity for people to get their truth from the source.
“And the source? No better source than the city manager’s office.”
Really? No better source? Well, next time tell us what you and Eddy Leal, the former mayor’s counsel turned candidate, talked about when he endorsed the incumbent commissioner last month. He says it was the election.
Noriega, hired in 2020 for $310K a year and who never returns Ladra’s calls, is not really the best source for “truth,” so what is this really about? Is it just coincidence that this would start at the same time as the two new city commissioners are elected? Is he suddenly worried about his job? Is there some city referendum on the horizon that he is going to want to push?
Hopefully, he will answer these questions in one of his next video episodes. We’re due.
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