The late Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes, who probably would have run for mayor if he hadn’t gotten sick and died last week at the age of 80, will get a proper statesman’s funeral procession and his casket will get a drive by past City Hall Wednesday morning, where there will be a special tribute ceremony open to the pubic at 10:30 a.m., before the funeral mass at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Little Havana.
Meanwhile, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and his supporters will be preparing for his mayoral campaign kick-off fundraiser hours later Wednesday night on Krome Avenue.
Tacky, tacky. Talk about bad taste. Ladra hopes nobody shows.
Carollo told Political Cortadito Monday that he didn’t plan the party at El Toro Loco Ranch — an “adventure farm” with ponies, a petting zoo and ATVs for riding on the five-acre property — which is being thrown by his political action committee, Miami First. And that it wasn’t his fault that it was on the same day as Reyes’ burial.
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It only seems like Crazy Joe is dancing on the man’s grave!
“One, let me be very clear: I don’t control people that want to throw fundraisers for PACs,” Carollo told Ladra on the telephone Monday, after he probably answered it by mistake. He even asked who it was. The caller ID must have failed.
Carollo also said that the fundraiser was planned “long before Manolo died” and then deflected, as Carollo is wont to do.
“Why don’t you ask Eileen Higgins, Ken Russell and the great colonel of the swamp, Emilio Gonzalez, if they had any respect for Reyes by filing to run for mayor while Manolo was sick,” Carollo said, referring to Miami-Dade Commissioner Higgins, former Miami Commissioner and congressional candidate Ken Russell and former Miami City Manager Gonzalez. He added that he had not yet decided that he would run for mayor.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do yet,” said Carollo, who is termed out of his district seat, so he has to go somewhere. And Miami First already has $1.7 million or so sitting in the bank account, according to the latest campaign finance records.
And Shangri La doesn’t really exist, you know?
Carollo did not return subsequent phone calls or a text message asking if he could have the event rescheduled, which everyone knows he could do and would be the decent thing to do. But, then again, he is Carollo. Decency is a stranger.
The fundraising kickoff is on the edge of the Everglades, probably as far from the city of Miami as one could get. It seems appropriate, because Carollo is acting like a reptile and we already know he doesn’t care for the city.
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