Manny Cid PAC hits Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on $2.5 billion bond

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Manny Cid PAC hits Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on $2.5 billion bond
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Here’s a commercial you didn’t see during the Super Bowl.

The first and anticipated video attacking Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for her $2.5 billion bomb, er, bond initiative, revealed last month at the State of the County address, is out. It’s not on TV. It will probably be on a smart phone near you soon, in the form of a text message. It is paid for by a political action committee chaired by Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid, the mayor’s only true challenger.

“Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has big plans for Miami-Dade taxpayers,” starts the 30-second spot with ominous music in the background. Ladra posted the video to her YouTube page. There are snippets of news coverage and footage of the mayor’s announcement as well as the headlines that it made.

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“Mayor Daniella Levine Cava now wants us to trust her with an additional $2.5 billion of our tax dollars,” a voice says. “We’ve had enough of her raising taxes.”

This is going to be a recurring theme of the campaign for Cid, who is being positioned as the every man in the race, running against an out-of-touch millionaire social worker just playing the part.

The piece says it’s paid for by The People’s Voice, a PAC opened in September of 2022 by Cid. It has raised $201,750 so far, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed for the last quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, La Alcaldesa’s PAC, Our Democracy, raised $291,480 just in the last quarter — and more than $1 million since last March.

Recent contributions to Our Democracy include $25,000 from NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, $20,000 from Dario Sala, a former professional soccer player who is now in sports manager and head of business development for The Women’s Cup, $10,000 each from developer Michael Simkins, land use and zoning attorney Jeffrey Bercow and lobbyist Les Pantin and $4,000 from former Miami-Dade Director of Transportation and Public Works Alice Bravo, now a lobbyist.

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Among the bigger contributions to The People’s Voice are $55,000 from three separate companies owned by Jorge Velazquez, including Gorky Recycling, $20,000 from Layer 8 Solutions, an IT company, $10,000 from Alex and Desiree Damiron, healthcare professionals who live in New Jersey, and $5,000 from President Supermarket.

There are four other candidates, but none of them are serious contenders. The only one who has reported any kind of money is Alex Otaola, a social media influencer who loaned himself $20,000 and got another $171,000 plus in more than 11,000 teeny, tiny contributions, including many for just $1. Seems like a stunt.

But Ladra still has a sensation that this is not going to be the last video ad in the campaign that focuses on her $2.5 billion bomb. Take cover.

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22 Responses to "Manny Cid PAC hits Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on $2.5 billion bond"

  10. It’s quite easy to introduce devices from the picaresque. novel, into our politics, given our enduring cultural hodge podge. The modest cultural and educational achievement of our larga & wide public education system , contributes to our voters not building resistance to those practices

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  11. ” We need a honest man as Mayor enough is enough”

    And such a thing in the Miami Cuban political world ?

    Por favor they are an assembly line of say anything parasitos .

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  12. Manny Cid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTC3TS8IZdM

    @ 19:50 Example Council Members need?

    @ 22:42 What is not ok… not being upfront with people

    @ 23:43 Renaming the podium after Mirtha Mendez, was not deserving, she is a Senior Citizen, highly inappropriate to rename the podium after someone who does not deserve it. The Microphone went from person to person, this is inappropriate, so I said something nice to be appropriate. Only because her whole family was there. The other people lack that!

    @ 25:02 Turns to speak to the audience saying ‘young people’ I am a good person, when someone tells you that constantly, that ain’t happening!

    Is 305 Vox Populi Podcast paid by taxpayer dollars?

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  14. I am in the do not call directory. Do I still have to hear this crap? The dirtiest politics in the country.

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  17. Daniela VS Manny… Ota Ola isn’t being taken serious by the analysts as it should be.

    LOL

    “11,000 teeny, tiny contributions, including many for just $1. Seems like a stunt.”

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  19. How can anyone criticize the bond if we don’t even know what it contains? Is it for new sewer lines? That would be very welcomed. Will it be for new affordable housing? Again, that would be very welcomed.

    So why don’t we wait and stop attacking the mayor until we see what’s in there?

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  20. The $2.5 billion bond is indeed a bomb. It has not been discussed at any level. A total black box. Creating a $2.5 billion debt on us, tax payers, merits much more: open discussions, plans, 3rd party accounting, safeguards… it’s a huge thing.
    Alex Ottaola is not a stunt. A lot of you journalists and bloggers dismissed Trump as a stunt and look where it got us. Ottaola is a dangerous person who wants to impose his point of view and considers anyone who doesn’t think like him a communist.

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  21. I will hate every minute of it, but I see myself voting for this turmper because I really hope this guy will remember Dade county middle class property owners that have been forgotten by Levine Cava tax and spend government.
    She increased Dade county budget by 20% this fiscal year on top of all the new revenue coming from the thousands of high end apartments that are and continue to be built in this community.

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  22. Glad to see somebody speaking out against that shameful money grab, aka 2.5b GOB. Where are the so called “Republican” commissioners?? It has been the epitome of misfeasance by our county government, to have squandered the massive new inflows of taxpayer revenue. County budget has almost doubled in 6 years!! We have had no NEW nothing, the place is falling apart and people are being displaced by the recién llegados. #BastaYa

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